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Shakespeare, trauma and contemporary performance / / atherine Silverstone



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Autore: Silverstone Catherine Visualizza persona
Titolo: Shakespeare, trauma and contemporary performance / / atherine Silverstone Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2011
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  Visualizza cluster
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.: 9910799920203321
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Serie: Routledge studies in Shakespeare ; ; 4.