Shakespeare, trauma and contemporary performance / / Catherine Silverstone
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| Autore: |
Silverstone Catherine
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| Titolo: |
Shakespeare, trauma and contemporary performance / / Catherine Silverstone
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Routledge, 2011 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (182 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 792.9/2 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Shakespeare, trauma and contemporary performance |
| ISBN: | 1-135-17830-5 |
| 1-283-45822-5 | |
| 9786613458223 | |
| 1-135-17831-3 | |
| 0-203-86294-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910814095203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Routledge studies in Shakespeare ; ; 4.