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Author:   James C. Bulman (Henry B. and Patricia Bush Tippie Professor of English, Henry B. and Patricia Bush Tippie Professor of English, Allegheny College)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.90cm , Height: 4.50cm , Length: 25.30cm
Weight:   1.364kg
ISBN:  

9780199687169

ISBN 10:   0199687161
Pages:   698
Publication Date:   23 November 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

James C. Bulman: Introduction: Cross-Currents in Performance Criticism PART I: EXPERIMENTAL SHAKESPEARE 1: Susan Bennett: Experimental Shakespeare 2: Bridget Escolme: Shakespeare and the Contemporary: Psychology, Culture, and Audience in Othello Production 3: Roberta Barker: 'Deared by Being Lacked': The Realist Legacy and the Art of Failure in Shakespearean Performance 4: Carol Chillington Rutter: Shakespeare for Dummies, or 'See the Puppets Dallying' 5: Peter Kirwan: Not-Shakespeare and the Shakespearean Ghost 6: Kim Solga: Shakespeare's Property Ladder: Women Directors and the Politics of 'Ownership' 7: Andrew James Hartley: Dialectical Shakespeare: Pedagogy in Performance 8: Ton Hoensalaars: Captive Shakespeare PART II: RECEPTION 9: Ayanna Thompson: (How) Should We Listen to Audiences? Race, Reception, and the Audience Survey 10: Peter Holland: Forgetting Performance 11: Cary M. Mazer: Documenting the Demotic: Actor Blogs and the Guts of the Opera Singer 12: Robert Shaughnessy: The Time is Out of Joint: Shakespeare, Jet Lag, and the Rhythms of Performance 13: Paul Menzer: Archives and Anecdotes 14: Robert Conkie: Reveries of a Shakespearean Walker 15: Katherine Prince: Intimate and Epic Macbeths in Contemporary Performance PART III: MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY 16: Thomas Cartelli: High Tech Shakespeare in a Mediatized Globe: Ivo van Hove's Roman Tragedies and the Problem of Spectatorship 17: Stephen Purcell: 'It's All a Bit of a Risk': Reformulating 'Liveness' in Twenty-First Century Performances of Shakespeare 18: Pascale Aebischer: Technology and the Ethics of Spectatorship 19: W. B. Worthen: Shakespearean Technicity 20: Sarah Werner: Performance in Digital Editions of Shakespeare 21: Anthony R. Guneratne: Shakespeare's Rebirth: Performance in Music, Dance, Theatre, and Cinema in the Age of Electro-Digital Reproduction 22: Scott Newstok: Making 'Music at the Editing Table': Echoing Verdi in Welles' Othello 23: Samuel Crowl: 'Nobody's Perfect': Cross-Dressing and Gender-Bending in Sven Gade's Hamlet and Julie Taymor's Tempest 24: Courtney Lehmann: Can the Subaltern Sing? Liz White's Othello PART IV: GLOBAL SHAKESPEARE 25: Alexa Alice Joubin: Global Shakespeare Criticism beyond the Nation-State 26: Dennis Kennedy: Global Shakespeare and Globalized Performance 27: Christie Carson: Performance, Presence, and Personal Responsibility: Witnessing Global Theatre in and around the Globe 28: Sonia Massai: Shakespeare with and without its Language 29: Rose Elfman: Slapstick against Stereotypes in South Sudan's Cymbeline 30: Colette Gordon: Open and Closed: Workshopping Shakespeare in South Africa 31: Adele Seeff: Indigenizing Shakespeare in South Africa 32: Alfredo Michel Modenessi: 'Victim of Improvisation' in Latin America: Shakespeare Out-sourced and In-taken 33: Robert Ormsby: Global Cultural Tourism at Canada's Stratford Festival: The Adventures of Pericles 34: Michiko Suematsu: Verbal and Visual Representations in Modern Japanese Shakespeare Productions 35: Li Ruru: There Is a World Elsewhere: Shakespeare on the Chinese Stage 36: Yong Li Lan: Translating Performance: the Asian Shakespeare Intercultural Archive

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James Bulman is to be congratulated for having amassed a diversified collection of essays with reference to the contemporaneity of Shakespeare for Western audiences. * Susan L. Fischer, Bulletin of the Comediantes *

Author Information

James C. Bulman holds the Henry B. and Patricia Bush Tippie Chair in English at Allegheny College. General editor, with Carol Rutter, of the Shakespeare in Performance Series for Manchester University Press, he has written a performance history of The Merchant of Venice (1991) and edited anthologies on Shakespeare on Television (with H. R. Coursen, 1988), Shakespeare, Theory, and Performance (1996), and Shakespeare Re-Dressed: Cross-Gender Casting in Contemporary Performance (2008). His other books include The Heroic Idiom of Shakespearean Tragedy (1985), Comedy from Shakespeare to Sheridan (with A. R. Braunmuller, 1986), and, most recently, an edition of King Henry IV, Part Two for The Arden Shakespeare , Third Series (2016). He is a former president of the Shakespeare Association of America.

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