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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814095203321

Autore

Silverstone Catherine

Titolo

Shakespeare, trauma and contemporary performance / / Catherine Silverstone

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2011

ISBN

1-135-17830-5

1-283-45822-5

9786613458223

1-135-17831-3

0-203-86294-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (182 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in Shakespeare ; ; 4

Disciplina

792.9/2

Soggetti

Psychic trauma in the theater

Psychic trauma in motion pictures

Psychic trauma in literature

Violence in the theater

Violence in motion pictures

Violence in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. "Honour the real thing": Gregory Doran's Titus Andronicus in South Africa; 2. The Legacy of Colonisation: Don C. Selwyn's The Maori Merchant of Venice and Aotearoa New Zealand; 3. Sexuality, Trauma and Community: The Tempest, Philip Osment's This Island's Mine and Gay Sweatshop; 4. Theatres of War: Nicholas Hytner's Henry V; Notes; Bibliography; About the Author; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare's texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. The book attempts to account for - but not to rationalize - the ongoing and pernicious effects of various forms of violence as they have emerged in selected



contemporary performances of Shakespeare's texts, especially as that violence relates to apartheid, colonization, racism, homophobia and war. Through a series of wide-ranging case studies, which are informed by debates in Shakespeare, trauma and performance