Severn, John R.. Shakespeare as jukebox musical

Folger bibliographic ID: 356461
Folger call number: ML2054 .S37 2019
Folger holdings ID: 504629

General notes

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

Introduction : Shakespeare as jukebox musical -- Section 1, Historical forebears. Shakespeare as eighteenth-century ballad opera ; Shakespeare as nineteenth-century musical spectacular and burlesque -- Section 2, Reception and structure. Song placement and the carnivalesque : Barrie Kosky's King Lear and the Troubadour Theater Company ; Layered allusions, genre and medium : the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre's Romeo & Juliet -- Section 3, Modes of reception. The Shakespearean jukebox musical as interrogative text : Kenneth Branagh's Love's labour's lost -- Section 4, Engaging with Twelfth night's unstable identities. Play on! and its ghosts ; All shook up and the unannounced adaptation -- Conclusion

Extended title: Shakespeare as jukebox musical / John R. Severn

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Jukebox musicals Literature

author: Severn, John R.
subject: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616