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This collection of essays approaches the works of Shakespeare from
the topical perspective of the History of Emotions. Contributions
come from established and emergent scholars from a range of
disciplines, including performance history, musicology and literary
history.
Twelfth Night has seldom been off the stage since Shakespeare's
day. It has been performed for its romantic high comedy and its
boisterous low comedy; with an emphasis on farce or on autumnal
melancholy; as straightforward celebration of heterosexual love and
marriage or as exploration of the complexity of gender. David
Carnegie and Mark Houlahan's introduction to the play provides a
lively discussion of the play's performance history, and encourages
readers to think about stagecraft and the play as a performance
text, while the historical appendices provide materials that
illuminate different thematic elements of the play. Extended notes
interleaved throughout the play present relevant illustrations and
expand on mythological, historical, and religious references in the
play. The accompanying online text will offer additional commentary
on staging alternatives and more extensive visual materials.
This collection of essays approaches the works of Shakespeare from
the topical perspective of the History of Emotions. Contributions
come from established and emergent scholars from a range of
disciplines, including performance history, musicology and literary
history.
Despite a recent surge of critical interest in the Shakespeare
Tercentenary, a great deal has been forgotten about this key moment
in the history of the place of Shakespeare in national and global
culture - much more than has been remembered. This book offers new
archival discoveries about, and new interpretations of, the
Tercentenary celebrations in Britain, Australia and New Zealand and
reflects on the long legacy of those celebrations. This collection
gathers together five scholars from Britain, Australia and New
Zealand to reflect on the modes of commemoration of Shakespeare
across the hemispheres in and after the Tercentenary year, 1916. It
was at this moment of remembering in 1916 that 'global Shakespeare'
first emerged in recognizable form. Each contributor performs their
own 'antipodal' reading, assessing in parallel events across two
hemispheres, geographically opposite but politically and culturally
connected in the wake of empire.
Despite a recent surge of critical interest in the Shakespeare
Tercentenary, a great deal has been forgotten about this key moment
in the history of the place of Shakespeare in national and global
culture - much more than has been remembered. This book offers new
archival discoveries about, and new interpretations of, the
Tercentenary celebrations in Britain, Australia and New Zealand and
reflects on the long legacy of those celebrations. This collection
gathers together five scholars from Britain, Australia and New
Zealand to reflect on the modes of commemoration of Shakespeare
across the hemispheres in and after the Tercentenary year, 1916. It
was at this moment of remembering in 1916 that 'global Shakespeare'
first emerged in recognizable form. Each contributor performs their
own 'antipodal' reading, assessing in parallel events across two
hemispheres, geographically opposite but politically and culturally
connected in the wake of empire.
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