Shakespeare and Community Performance

2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-33269-2
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 391 g

Reihe: Shakespeare in Practice

This book explores how productions of Shakespearean plays create meaning in specific communities, with special attention to issues of access, adaptation, and activism. Instead of focusing on large professional companies, it analyzes performances put on by community theatres and grassroots companies, and in applied drama projects. It looks at Shakespearean productions created by marginalized populations in Greater London, Harlem, and Los Angeles, a Hamlet staged in the remote Faroe Islands, and eco-theatre made in California’s Yosemite National Park. The book investigates why different communities perform Shakespeare, and what challenges, opportunities, and triumphs accompany the processes of theatrical production for both the artists and the communities in which they are embedded. 

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Steele Brokaw, Katherine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Einzelne Theaterschauspieler & Regisseure
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

 1. Community Shakespeare: Access, Adaptation, Activism.- 2. Public Shakespeare: Public Works (New York City) and Public Acts (UK).- 3. Identity Shakespeare: L.A. Women’s Shakespeare Company and Harlem Shakespeare Festival.- 4. Island Shakespeare: Hamlet in the Faroe Islands.- 5. Ecological Shakespeare: Shakespeare in Yosemite and the EarthShakes Alliance.

Über Autor(innen)

Katherine Steele Brokaw is associate professor of English and Theatre at University of California Merced, USA, co-founding artistic director of Shakespeare in Yosemite, and co-founder of the EarthShakes Alliance. She is the author of Staging Harmony: Music and Religious Change in Late Medieval and Early English Drama (2016) and has published articles and reviews inseveral journals and essay collections. With Jay Zysk she co-edited Sacred and Secular Transactions in the Age of Shakespeare (2019), and she edited Macbeth for the Arden Performance Editions series (2019).