New directions in Renaissance drama and performance studies

Folger bibliographic ID: 233619
Folger call number: PR3091 .N49 2010
Folger holdings ID: 309845
Accession Number: 265957

"This collection asks pressing questions about how and why we study performances of Renaissance drama, challenging prevailing views and suggesting new methodologies for the field. How does an emphasis on Shakespeare limit us? What can we learn from non-traditional theatre? Why should we rethink the value of studying what happens onstage?"--

General notes

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

Machine generated contents note: Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: What can Performance Do For Us?; S.Werner -- PART I: WORKING WITH THE EPHEMERAL -- One Piece at a Time; R.Shaughnessy -- Replaying Early Modern Performances; W.N.West -- Acts of Seizure: A Theatrical Poetics of Metonymy and Metaphor; C.Cobb -- PART II: BREAKING DOWN BOUNDARIES -- Page and Stage Again: Rethinking Renaissance Character Phenomenologically; A.J.Hartley -- Original Practices and Revolutionary Nostalgia; P.Menzer -- Spreading the Shakespeare Gospel, or, The Missionary Position in Modern Performance Criticism; J.Lopez -- PART III: RESITUATING SHAKESPEARE -- Performance Criticism Without Performance: The Study of Non-Shakespearean Drama; G.Love -- Performing Relevance: Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama on the Modern Stage; E.Smith -- Shakespeare and Our Contemporaries; B.Escolme -- 'Ay, there's the rub': Race and Performance Studies; A.Thompson -- Afterword: Performing the 'Live': Cinema, Simulation, and the Death of the Real in Alex Cox's Revengers' Tragedy; C.Lehmann -- Index

Item information about Folger PR3091 .N49 2010

Gift of Sarah Werner

Extended title: New directions in Renaissance drama and performance studies / edited by Sarah Werner

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Theater

subject: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
associated with: Werner, Sarah, 1969-