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From fantasy and sci-fi to graphic novels, from boy scouts to board
games, from blockbuster films to the cult of theatre, Shakespeare
is everywhere in popular culture. Where there is popular culture
there are fans and nerds and geeks. The essays in this collection
on Shakespeare and Geek Culture take an innovative approach to the
study of Shakespeare's cultural presences, situating his works, his
image and his brand to locate and explore the nature of that
geekiness that, the authors argue, is a vital but unrecognized
feature of the world of those who enjoy and are obsessed by
Shakespeare, whether they are scholars, film fans, theatre-goers or
members of legions of other groupings in which Shakespeare plays
his part. Working at the intersections of a wide range of fields -
including fan studies and film analysis, cultural studies and
fantasy/sci-fi theory - the authors demonstrate how the
particularities of the connection between Shakespeare and geek
culture generate new insights into the plays, poems and their
larger cultural legacy in the 21st century.
Julius Caesar stands at the changing of the tide in Shakespeare's
career. By 1599, when he wrote the play, he had penned only two
experimental tragedies (Romeo and Juliet and Titus Andronicus),
neither of which had the profound richness of those he would write
next - Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello and King Lear. There is a scale to
Caesar which is unmatched by anything he had written before it and
it lays the groundwork for the master works to follow. As such, it
stands not just at the turn of the century, but at the point in
which its author emerged as the language's foremost writer. Our
sense of the play has evolved over the centuries, and we tend to be
less overawed by all the characters' claims to personal nobility
and quicker to see the darker side of their political machinations.
We are also less likely to see the Roman model of life and virtue
as something being offered up for emulation. Indeed it now seems to
most critics that Shakespeare was deeply critical of ancient Rome,
seeing much of what its characters celebrate as principle as the
root cause of all that goes wrong in the play. But that is the
nature of scholarship and the theatre - each period finds in the
play what interests it most - Julius Caesar remains a powerful
study in political gamesmanship, the morality of assassination, and
the ways in which people build a sense of who they are.
How do writers of contemporary fiction incorporate Shakespeare -
the man, his work and his cultural legacy? This collection brings
together some of the leading voices in the scholarship of
Shakespearean adaptation and appropriation to examine the ways in
which writers have used literary culture's most prominent
historical figure to their own ends since the year 2000. The essays
consider the representation of the man himself, the rethinking of
his stories - often in pointed defiance of the original - and
explorations of the plays radically repositioned in time and space.
In the process the collection reveals which versions of Shakespeare
are most current in contemporary culture and education, even as
they remake them in the terms of the present, often exploiting the
new notions of genre, of publishing technologies, and of political
identity which have evolved so drastically since the turn of the
last century.
From fantasy and sci-fi to graphic novels, from boy scouts to board
games, from blockbuster films to the cult of theatre, Shakespeare
is everywhere in popular culture. Where there is popular culture
there are fans and nerds and geeks. The essays in this collection
on Shakespeare and Geek Culture take an innovative approach to the
study of Shakespeare’s cultural presences, situating his works,
his image and his brand to locate and explore the nature of that
geekiness that, the authors argue, is a vital but unrecognized
feature of the world of those who enjoy and are obsessed by
Shakespeare, whether they are scholars, film fans, theatre-goers or
members of legions of other groupings in which Shakespeare plays
his part. Working at the intersections of a wide range of fields
– including fan studies and film analysis, cultural studies and
fantasy/sci-fi theory – the authors demonstrate how the
particularities of the connection between Shakespeare and geek
culture generate new insights into the plays, poems and their
larger cultural legacy in the 21st century.
Featuring essays from seventeen international scholars, this
exciting new collection is the first sustained study of Shakespeare
on the university and college stage. Treating the subject both
historically and globally, the essays describe theatrical
conditions that fit neither the professional nor the amateur models
and show how student performances provide valuable vehicles for
artistic construction and intellectual analysis. The book redresses
the neglect of this distinctive form of Shakespeare performance,
opening up new ways of thinking about the nature and value of
university production and its ability to draw unique audiences.
Looking at productions across the world - from Asia to Europe and
North America - it will interest scholars as well as upper-level
students in areas such as Shakespeare studies, performance studies
and theatre history.
This volume offers a practical, accessible and thought-provoking
guide to this Roman tragedy, surveying its major themes and
critical reception. It also provides a detailed and up-to-date
history of the play's performance, beginning with its earliest
known staging in 1599, including an analysis of the 2013 film
Caesar Must Die starring Italian inmates, and an assessment of why
the play is now coming back into vogue on stage. Moving through to
four new critical essays, it opens up cutting-edge perspectives on
the work, and finishes with a guide to pedagogical approaches by
the experienced teacher and leading academic Jeremy Lopez.
Detailing web-based and production-related resources, and including
an annotated bibliography of critical works, the guide will equip
teachers and facilitate students' understanding of this challenging
play.
This volume offers a practical, accessible and thought-provoking
guide to this Roman tragedy, surveying its major themes and
critical reception. It also provides a detailed and up-to-date
history of the play's performance, beginning with its earliest
known staging in 1599, including an analysis of the 2013 film
Caesar Must Die starring Italian inmates, and an assessment of why
the play is now coming back into vogue on stage. Moving through to
four new critical essays, it opens up cutting-edge perspectives on
the work, and finishes with a guide to pedagogical approaches by
the experienced teacher and leading academic Jeremy Lopez.
Detailing web-based and production-related resources, and including
an annotated bibliography of critical works, the guide will equip
teachers and facilitate students' understanding of this challenging
play.
Featuring essays from seventeen international scholars, this
exciting new collection is the first sustained study of Shakespeare
on the university and college stage. Treating the subject both
historically and globally, the essays describe theatrical
conditions that fit neither the professional nor the amateur models
and show how student performances provide valuable vehicles for
artistic construction and intellectual analysis. The book redresses
the neglect of this distinctive form of Shakespeare performance,
opening up new ways of thinking about the nature and value of
university production and its ability to draw unique audiences.
Looking at productions across the world - from Asia to Europe and
North America - it will interest scholars as well as upper-level
students in areas such as Shakespeare studies, performance studies
and theatre history.
Early Modern Drama in Performance is a collection of essays in
honor of Lois Potter, the distinguished author of five monographs,
including most recently The Life of William Shakespeare (2012), and
numerous articles, edited collections, and editions. This
collection's emphasis on Shakespearean and early modern drama
reflects the area for which Potter is most widely known, as a
performance critic, editor, and literary scholar. The essays by a
diverse group of scholars who have been influenced by Potter
address recurring themes in her work: Shakespeare and
non-Shakespearean early modern drama, performance history and
theatre practice, theatrical performance across cultures, play
reviewing, and playreading. What unifies them most, though, is that
they carry on the spirit of Potter's work: her ability to meet a
text, a performance, or a historical period on its own terms, to
give scrupulous attention to specific details and elegantly show
how these details generate larger meaning, and to recover and
preserve the fleeting and the ephemeral.
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