Shakespeare on the University Stage
Shakespeare on the University Stage
Featuring essays from seventeen international scholars, this exciting new collection is the first sustained study of Shakespeare on the university and college stage. Treating the subject both historically and globally, the essays describe theatrical conditions that fit neither the professional nor the amateur models and show how student performances provide valuable vehicles for artistic construction and intellectual analysis. The book redresses the neglect of this distinctive form of Shakespeare performance, opening up new ways of thinking about the nature and value of university production and its ability to draw unique audiences. Looking at productions across the world - from Asia to Europe and North America - it will interest scholars as well as upper-level students in areas such as Shakespeare studies, performance studies and theatre history.
- The first sustained study of college and university staging of Shakespeare's plays, on an international scale
- Uniquely considers theatrical conditions which fit neither the professional nor the amateur models
- Considers the specific social contexts of university productions, analysing how meaning is produced with reference to student experience
Reviews & endorsements
'This highly intelligent collection of essays, written by practitioners and eyewitnesses as well as by some of the most important theatre scholars writing today, at last puts student Shakespeare onto our intellectual map. As impressive in its geographical and historical scope as it is in its depth, Shakespeare on the University Stage reveals campus production as a rich, diverse and scandalously under-studied field of Shakespearean performance, now at last ripe for analysis and appreciation.' Michael Dobson, University of Birmingham
Product details
October 2017Paperback
9781107634046
304 pages
230 × 153 × 15 mm
0.47kg
13 b/w illus. 1 table
Available
Table of Contents
- Introduction: tragedians of the city, little eyases or rude mechanicals? Andrew James Hartley
- 1. Campus Shakespeare: fragments of a history, fragments of a concept Peter Holland
- 2. Performance, religion and Shakespeare: staging ideology at Notre Dame Mark C. Pilkinton
- 3. George Rylands and Cambridge University Shakespeare Michael Cordner
- 4. Women who will make a difference: Shakespeare at Wellesley College Yu Jin Ko
- 5. Appropriating Shakespeare on campus: an Indian perspective Angelie Multani
- 6. Ideology and student performances in China Lee Chee Keng and Yong Li Lan
- 7. Shakespeare without resources: staging Shakespeare in the Midwest Andrea Stevens
- 8. Shakespeare isn't just for the professionals: Shakespeare on the German campus Christa Jansohn
- 9. Holofernes, Peregrine and I: Australian campus Shakespeare Rob Conkie
- 10. The politics and economics of Malaysian campus productions of Shakespeare Nurul Farhana Low bt Abdullah
- 11. The Performance Research Group's Anthony and Cleopatra (2010) Jacquelyn Bessell
- 12. The laws of Athens: Shakespeare and the campus economy Paul Menzer
- 13. Queering Shakespeare in the American South Chad Allen Thomas
- 14. Shakespeare laboratories and performance-as-research Jonathan Heron
- 15. The small-college stage: is there still room for Shakespeare? Douglas E. Green
- 16. The Shakespeare performance campus W. B. Worthen
- Index.
