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Shakespeare and the Cultures of Performance (Paperback)
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Shakespeare and the Cultures of Performance (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
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Theatrical performance, suggest the contributors to this volume,
can be an unpredictable, individual experience as well as a
communal, institutional or cultural event. The essays collected
here use the tools of theatre history in their investigation into
the phenomenology of the performance experience, yet they are also
careful to consider the social, ideological and institutional
contingencies that determine the production and reception of the
living spectacle. Thus contributors combine a formalist interest in
the affective and aesthetic dimensions of language and spectacle
with an investment in the material cultures that both produced and
received Shakespeare's plays. Six of the chapters focus on early
modern cultures of performance, looking specifically at such topics
as the performance of rusticity; the culture of credit; contract
and performance; the cultivation of Englishness; religious ritual;
and mourning and memory. Building upon and interrelating with the
preceding essays, the last three chapters deal with Shakespeare and
performance culture in modernity. They focus on themes including
literary and theatrical performance anxiety; cultural iconicity;
and the performance of Shakespearean lateness. This collection
strives to bring better understanding to Shakespeare's imaginative
investment in the relationship between theatrical production and
the emotional, intellectual and cultural effects of performance
broadly defined in social terms.
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