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Author: Brett Gamboa ,
Lawrence Switzky
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.640kg
ISBN: 9780367429072
ISBN 10: 0367429071
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 21 November 2019
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
In Shakespeare's Things: Shakespearean Theatre and the Non-Human World in History, Theory, and Performance, Brett Gamboa and Lawrence Switzky offer an imaginative collection of fifteen essays catching the wave of the non-human turn in the humanities to search out new territory for the agency of things in Shakespeare's plays and their performances. Things that do things are essential to the work of theatre, a thingy agency bespeaking the stage as practicing a kind of new materialism avant la lettre. Tracing the animating power of mirrors and shoes, skulls and puppets, rag-bundle babies and an actively ecological (not merely symbolic) setting, the essays gathered here resituate the porous-play/stage; stage/world-identities of dramatic theatre, notably by vigorously negotiating the consequential slippage between things and us. Shakespeare's Things, attending to the historical, theoretical, and theatrical work of things, fashions a network of interpretive, ethical, and philosophical questions that remake a staid confidence in the Shakespearean human at the interface with its defining, non-human others. --W. B. Worthen, Alice Brady Pels Professor in the Arts, Barnard College, Columbia University This dynamic collection of essays explores the theatrical objects, vibrant matter, and more-than-human things that populate Shakespeare's stage, demonstrating that the new in new materialism isn't that new after all. Whether analyzing human remains, Elizabethan shoes, atmospheric conditions, or the peculiar powers of baby-props, the authors assembled here by editors Brett Gamboa and Lawrence Switzky offer fresh, engaging readings of Shakespeare's plays on the page and in production. Shakespeare's Things is a must-read collection for anyone interested in the intersection of new materialist thought, theatre history, and Shakespeare studies. --Marlis Schweitzer, co-editor (with Joanne Zerdy), Performing Objects and Theatrical Things
This dynamic collection of essays explores the theatrical objects, vibrant matter, and more-than-human things that populate Shakespeare's stage, demonstrating that the new in new materialism isn't that new after all. Whether analyzing human remains, Elizabethan shoes, atmospheric conditions, or the peculiar powers of baby-props, the authors assembled here by editors Brett Gamboa and Lawrence Switzky offer fresh, engaging readings of Shakespeare's plays on the page and in production. Shakespeare's Things is a must-read collection for anyone interested in the intersection of new materialist thought, theatre history, and Shakespeare studies. --Marlis Schweitzer, co-editor (with Joanne Zerdy), Performing Objects and Theatrical Things In Shakespeare's Things: Shakespearean Theatre and the Non-Human World in History, Theory, and Performance, Brett Gamboa and Lawrence Switzky offer an imaginative collection of fifteen essays catching the wave of the non-human turn in the humanities to search out new territory for the agency of things in Shakespeare's plays and their performances. Things that do things are essential to the work of theatre, a thingy agency bespeaking the stage as practicing a kind of new materialism avant la lettre. Tracing the animating power of mirrors and shoes, skulls and puppets, rag-bundle babies and an actively ecological (not merely symbolic) setting, the essays gathered here resituate the porous-play/stage; stage/world-identities of dramatic theatre, notably by vigorously negotiating the consequential slippage between things and us. Shakespeare's Things, attending to the historical, theoretical, and theatrical work of things, fashions a network of interpretive, ethical, and philosophical questions that remake a staid confidence in the Shakespearean human at the interface with its defining, non-human others. --W. B. Worthen, Alice Brady Pels Professor in the Arts, Barnard College, Columbia University
Author Information
Dr. Brett Gamboa is an Assistant Professor of English, Dartmouth College Dr. Lawrence Switzky is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto
