Overview
This volume addresses the economy of the spectacular in and around Shakespeare's plays, both in early modern England and in late-twentieth/twenty-first-century adaptations and appropriations. Apart from addressing issues such as (im)plausibility, tours de force arousing amazement, and excess for the sake of entertainment, it raises the question of intentionality—what is behind the spectacular? Is there always a manipulative purpose? How far-reaching are the political and ideological stakes?The contributors to this volume investigate a broad spectrum of particular phenomena: the spectacular sound effects and pyrotechnics displayed for the opening of the Globe theatre with Julius Caesar on performance; George Gascoigne's lavish 1575 pageant commissioned by the Earl of Leicester for the queen at Kenilworth (The Princely Pleasures); the relationship between the spectacular and scientific discoveries, as well as their dialectics of appropriation; the impact of Mannerist art on The Winter's Tale; Coriolanus' resistance to ostentation and political shows; the anti-spectacular counter-current running through Timon of Athens; Julia Pascal's innovative 2007 stage production of The Merchant of Venice; apocalyptic screen adaptations of turn-of-the-century Jacobean tragedies, and Richard III's potential to be graphically interpreted in 2008 as political satire and as a danse macabre.
Full Product Details
Author: Pascale Drouet
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Imprint: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Edition: Unabridged edition
Dimensions:
Width: 14.80cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 21.20cm
Weight: 0.399kg
ISBN: 9781443811057
ISBN 10: 144381105
Pages: 199
Publication Date: 08 June 2009
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Author Information
Dr. Pascale Drouet is Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare Studies at the University of Poitiers, France. She has published a number of works on vagrancy and roguery in early modern literature, including a monograph, Le vagabond dans l'Angleterre de Shakespeare, ou l'art de contrefaire à la ville et à la scène (L'Harmattan, 2003). She is editor of Shakespeare au XXème siècle: Mises en scène, mises en perspective de Richard II (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2007) and joint editor of ""The True Blank of Thine Eye"": Approches critiques de King Lear (Presses Universitaires de Paris Sorbonne, 2008). In 2007, she launched the online journal Les Cahiers Shakespeare en devenir (http://edel.univ-poitiers.fr/licorne/sommaire.php?id=3680).
