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Site-Specific Shakespeare

by Benjamin (University Of Calgary) Blyth

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 From parking lots to Zoom calls, rooftop gardens to ruined convents, theatre practitioners around the world are staging Shakespeare in a diversity of spaces beyond the conventional theatre. This Element argues that theatre-makers demonstrate 'tactical intelligence' with Shakespeare's plays in site-specific performance to spatial constraints.
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Performing Visible Pregnancy In Shakespeare'S Plays

by Patricia (New York University) Lennox

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 This Element considers pregnant women and their costumes in the staging of Shakespeare's plays. The author focusses on the varied significance of its presence to actors and directors; explores how the archives to chart this previously under-examined interaction between social conventions, costumes, and the actors who wear them.
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Performing Shakespeare On An Endangered Planet

by Elizabeth (Shakespeare Institute, University Of Birmingham) Freestone e Katherine Steele (University Of California, Merced) Brokaw

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 This Element explores how Shakespearean theatre can address environmental crises, offering insights on adapting his plays ecologically. It discusses eco-friendly practices in theatre, from set design to outdoor performances, with examples from recent eco-productions of The Tempest and A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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Shakespeare And The Restoration Repertory

by Stephen (University Of Greenwich) Watkins

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 This Element provides the first comprehensive study of William Davenant's Shakespeare adaptations within the broader context of the Restoration repertory. It reveals how Davenant adapted the plays in direct response to the institutional and commercial imperatives of the newly established theatre industry of the 1660s.
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Shakespeare And Nonhuman Intelligence

by Heather Warren-Crow

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 According to the Infinite Monkey Theorem, an infinite number of typing monkeys will eventually generate the works of Shakespeare. This Element is a metaphysical analysis of the Bard's function in the Theorem in various contexts over the past century. It argues that Shakespeare performs as an interface between the human and our Others.
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Extended Reality Shakespeare

by Aneta (Royal Holloway, University Of London) Mancewicz

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 This Element argues for the importance of extended reality as an innovative force that changes our understanding of theatre and Shakespeare. It shows how the inclusion of augmented and virtual realities in performance can reconfigure the senses of the experiencers, enabling them to engage with technology actively.
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Sleep No More And The Discourses Of Shakespeare Performance

by D. J. Hopkins

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 This Element focuses on Sleep No More, theatre adaptation of Macbeth produced by the British company Punchdrunk. It frames the Shakespeare adaptation as part of a system of ghostly citationality through which audiences understand the significance of the past in performances today.
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Shakespeare And Nonhuman Intelligence

by Heather (Texas Tech University) Warren-Crow

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 According to the Infinite Monkey Theorem, an infinite number of typing monkeys will eventually generate the works of Shakespeare. This Element is a metaphysical analysis of the Bard's function in the Theorem in various contexts over the past century. It argues that Shakespeare performs as an interface between the human and our Others.
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Approaching The Interval In The Early Modern Theatre - The Significance Of The 'Act-Time'

by Mark (Universidad De Salamanca, Spain) Hutchings

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 In requiring artificial light, the early modern indoor theatre had to interrupt the action so that the candles could be attended to, if necessary. This Element explores how the interval affected composition and stagecraft and how amphitheatre plays were converted for indoor performance (and vice versa).
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Sleep No More And The Discourses Of Shakespeare Performance

by D. J. (San Diego State University) Hopkins

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 This Element focuses on Sleep No More, theatre adaptation of Macbeth produced by the British company Punchdrunk. It frames the Shakespeare adaptation as part of a system of ghostly citationality through which audiences understand the significance of the past in performances today.
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Staging Disgust - Rape, Shame, And Performance In Shakespeare And Middleton

by Jennifer (University Of Ottawa) Panek

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 This Element turns to the stage to ask a simple question about gender and affect: what causes the shame of the early modern rape victim? Beneath honour codes and problematic assumptions about consent, the answer lies in an affect even more intractable than shame: disgust.
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Early Modern Media Ecology

by Peter W. (University Of Cologne) Marx

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 This Element introduces thaumaturgy, the art of making wonder, encompasses everything from magic lanterns to puppets to fireworks, and deliberately mingling the spheres of commercial entertainment, art, and religion. It also suggests a new form of historiography-media ecology.
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Shakespeare'S Visionary Women

by Laura Jayne (Newcastle University) Wright

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 This Element interrogates the scepticism that Shakespeare's visionary women face and considers the ways in which they perform the truth of their experiences to a hostile onstage audience. It concludes that prophecy gives women a brief access to political conversations in which they are not welcome as they wrest narrative control from male speakers.
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Shakespeare Without Print

by Paul Menzer

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This Distracted Globe - Attending To Distraction In Shakespeare'S Theatre

by Jennifer J. Edwards

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Shakespeare Without Print

by Paul (Mary Baldwin University, Virginia) Menzer

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 This Element contends that Shakespeare and performance has long been dominated by a medium alien to its expression, print, a foreign government that forecloses alternative conceptualizations and practices.
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This Distracted Globe - Attending To Distraction In Shakespeare'S Theatre

by Jennifer J. (The Queen'S College, Oxford) Edwards

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 Drawing on scholarly research, artist experience, and audience behaviour, This Distracted Globe considers the disruptive, affective, phenomenological, and generative potential of distraction in contemporary performance at the Globe.
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Haunting History Onstage - Shakespeare In The Usa And Canada

by Regina (Roosevelt University, Illinois) Buccola

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 Scholars of Shakespeare's history plays, Shakespeare in performance, and fans of The Hollow Crown will all be drawn to this exploration of two marathon productions of Shakespearean histories. With an emphasis on details of the productions, the book explores their impact, still resonating as the performances themselves recede into history.
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Viral Shakespeare - Performance In The Time Of Pandemic

by Pascale Aebischer

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 This Element offers a first-person phenomenological history of watching productions of Shakespeare during the pandemic year of 2020. It explores how Shakespeare 'went viral' during the first lockdown of 2020.
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Shakespeare, Blackface And Race - Different Perspectives

by Coen (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands) Heijes

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 Through several case studies the author analyses the interaction between blackface and (institutional) racism in Dutch society and theatre and how Othello has become an active player in this debate.
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Viral Shakespeare - Performance In The Time Of Pandemic

by Pascale (University Of Exeter) Aebischer

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 This Element offers a first-person phenomenological history of watching productions of Shakespeare during the pandemic year of 2020. It explores how Shakespeare 'went viral' during the first lockdown of 2020.
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Robert Lepage'S Intercultural Encounters

by Christie Carson

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 This study returns to the origins of Robert Lepage's directorial work and his first cross-cultural interaction with a Shakespearean text to provide some background for his later work. This early work is situated within the political and social context of Quebec and Canada in the 1980s.
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About Shakespeare - Bodies, Spaces And Texts

by Robert (University Of Surrey) Shaughnessy

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 Drawing upon the work of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare's Globe and the SchaubÃ¼hne Berlin, About Shakespeare examines theatrical bodies, the spaces inhabited by actors and audiences, and the texts that circulate around and between them.
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Shakespearean Futures - Casting The Bodies Of Tomorrow On Shakespeare'S Stages Today

by Amy Cook

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 This Element focuses on the casting in productions of Shakespeare from 2017â€"2020 to demonstrate how directors are using casting as the central mode of meaning-making in productions of Shakespeare.
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