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This book looks at the staging and performance of normality in
early modern drama. Analysing conventions and rules, habitual
practices, common things and objects, and mundane sights and
experiences, this volume foregrounds a staged normality that has
been heretofore unseen, ignored, or taken for granted. It draws
together leading and emerging scholars of early modern theatre and
culture to debate the meaning of normality in an early modern
context and to discuss how it might transfer to the stage. In doing
so, these original critical essays unsettle and challenge scholarly
assumptions about how normality is represented in the performance
space. The volume, which responds to studies of the everyday and
the material turn in cultural history, as well as to broader
philosophical engagements with the idea of normality and its
opposites, brings to light the essential role that normality plays
in the composition and performance of early modern drama.
This book is the first edited collection to explore Shakespeare’s
life as depicted on the modern stage and screen. Focusing on the
years 1998-2023, it uniquely identifies a 25-year trend for
depicting Shakespeare, his family and his social circle in theatre,
film and television. Interrogating Shakespeare’s afterlife across
stage and screen media, the volume explores continuities and
changes in the form since the release of Shakespeare in Love, which
it positions as the progenitor of recent Shakespearean biofictions
in Anglo-American culture. It traces these developments through the
21st century, from pivotal moments such as the Shakespeare 400
celebrations in 2016, up to the quatercentenary of the publication
of the First Folio, whose portrait helped make the author a
globally recognisable icon. The collection takes account of recent
Anglo-American socio-political, cultural and literary concerns
including feminism, digital media and the biopic and superhero
genres. The wide variety of works discussed range from All is True
and Hamnet to Upstart Crow, Bill and even The Lego Movie. Offering
insights from actors, dramatists and literary and performance
scholars, it considers why artists are drawn to Shakespeare as a
character and how theatre and screen media mediate his status as
literary genius.
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