Acts of criticism : performance matters in Shakespeare and his contemporaries : essays in honor of James P. Lusardi
Assembles a cast of 16 distinguished theater historians and performance critics who contribute to the understanding of issues associated with performing works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. This book examines matters related to performance in Shakespeare's time, and a criticism section to treat modern productions on stage and screen.
eBook, English, ©2006
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Madison [N.J.], ©2006
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (275 pages) : illustrations
9780838643457, 9780838640593, 0838643450, 0838640591
704517525
Print version:
Toe to toe across Maid Lane: repertorial competition at the Rose and Globe, 1599-1600 / Roslyn L. Knutson
The study of Shakespearean playbooks / Jay L. Halio
"The difference betwixt reporting and representing": Thomas Heywood and the playgoer's imagination / Alan C. Dessen
"The stage is hung with black": When did Melpomene lose her identity? / Andrew Gurr
Shakespeare: rough or smooth? / Maurice Charney
Privileging the spiritual: performers, Shakespeare's plays, and the uses of theater / John Timpane
Performing Apemantus in Shakespeare's Timon of Athens / Frances K. Barasch
King Lear, Act 3: storming the stage / Charles A. Hallett
Placing the audience at risk: realizing the design of Massinger's The Roman actor / Edward L. Rocklin
"I'm not a feminist director, but . . .": recent feminist productions of The taming of the shrew / Michael D. Friedman
"So what?": two postmodern adaptations of Shakespearean tragedies / NaomI C. Liebler
Shakespeare's body: Robert Lepage's slippery Dream / Samuel Crowl
Trevor Nunn's The merchant of Venice: Portia's house of mystery, magic, and menace / Kenneth S. Rothwell
The lady vanishes or, the incredible shrinking Gertrude / J. Anthony Burton
Childhood dreams and nightmares: children in productions of A midsummer night's dream / Miranda Johnson-Haddad
Teen Shakespeare: 10 things I hate about you and O / Alexander Leggatt
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