Book contents
- Shakespeare Survey
- Shakespeare Survey
- Shakespeare Survey
- Copyright page
- Editor’s Note
- Contributors
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Henry V after the War on Terror
- Economies of Gunpowder and Ecologies of Peace: Accounting for Sustainability
- Shakespeare and Religious War: New Developments on the Italian Sources of Twelfth Night
- ‘Thou Laidst No Sieges to the Music-Room’: Anatomizing Wars, Staging Battles
- Shakespearian Narratives of War: Trauma, Repetition and Metaphor
- War Without Shakespeare: Reading Shakespearian Absence, 1642–1649
- Antic Dispositions: Shakespeare, War and Cabaret
- The Comedy of Hamlet in Nazi-Occupied Warsaw: An Exploration of Lubitsch’s To Be or Not to Be (1942)
- The Lion and the Lamb: Hamlet in London during World War II
- Dividing to Conquer or Joining the ReSisters: Shakespeare’s Lady Anne (and Woolf’s Three Guineas) in the Wake of #MeToo
- The Homeland of Coriolanus: War Homecomings between Shakespeare’s Stage and Current Complex TV
- Scholarly Method, Truth and Evidence in Shakespearian Textual Studies
- Beautiful Polecats: The Living and the Dead in Julius Caesar
- Ancient Aesthetics and Current Conflicts: Indian Rasa Theory and Vishal Bhardwaj’s Haider (2014)
- Failure to Thrive
- Tippett’s Tempest: Shakespeare in The Knot Garden
- Tautological Character: Troilus and Cressida and the Problems of Personation
- ‘Rude Wind’: King Lear – Canonicity versus Physicality
- Content but Also Unwell: Distributed Character and Language in The Merchant of Venice
- Autistic Culture, Shakespeare therapy and the Hunter Heartbeat Method
- The Senecan Tragedy of Feste in Twelfth Night
- Shakespeare Performances in England, 2018
- Professional Shakespeare Productions in the British Isles, January–December 2017
- The Year’s Contributions To Shakespeare Studies
- 1. Critical Studies
- 2. Shakespeare in Performance
- 3. Editions and Textual Studies
- Abstracts of Articles in Shakespeare Survey 72
- Index
- References
2. - Shakespeare in Performance
from The Year’s Contributions To Shakespeare Studies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 September 2019
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Book contents
- Shakespeare Survey
- Shakespeare Survey
- Shakespeare Survey
- Copyright page
- Editor’s Note
- Contributors
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Henry V after the War on Terror
- Economies of Gunpowder and Ecologies of Peace: Accounting for Sustainability
- Shakespeare and Religious War: New Developments on the Italian Sources of Twelfth Night
- ‘Thou Laidst No Sieges to the Music-Room’: Anatomizing Wars, Staging Battles
- Shakespearian Narratives of War: Trauma, Repetition and Metaphor
- War Without Shakespeare: Reading Shakespearian Absence, 1642–1649
- Antic Dispositions: Shakespeare, War and Cabaret
- The Comedy of Hamlet in Nazi-Occupied Warsaw: An Exploration of Lubitsch’s To Be or Not to Be (1942)
- The Lion and the Lamb: Hamlet in London during World War II
- Dividing to Conquer or Joining the ReSisters: Shakespeare’s Lady Anne (and Woolf’s Three Guineas) in the Wake of #MeToo
- The Homeland of Coriolanus: War Homecomings between Shakespeare’s Stage and Current Complex TV
- Scholarly Method, Truth and Evidence in Shakespearian Textual Studies
- Beautiful Polecats: The Living and the Dead in Julius Caesar
- Ancient Aesthetics and Current Conflicts: Indian Rasa Theory and Vishal Bhardwaj’s Haider (2014)
- Failure to Thrive
- Tippett’s Tempest: Shakespeare in The Knot Garden
- Tautological Character: Troilus and Cressida and the Problems of Personation
- ‘Rude Wind’: King Lear – Canonicity versus Physicality
- Content but Also Unwell: Distributed Character and Language in The Merchant of Venice
- Autistic Culture, Shakespeare therapy and the Hunter Heartbeat Method
- The Senecan Tragedy of Feste in Twelfth Night
- Shakespeare Performances in England, 2018
- Professional Shakespeare Productions in the British Isles, January–December 2017
- The Year’s Contributions To Shakespeare Studies
- 1. Critical Studies
- 2. Shakespeare in Performance
- 3. Editions and Textual Studies
- Abstracts of Articles in Shakespeare Survey 72
- Index
- References
Summary
However sophisticated or assertive a director or designer may be, it is the actor and his or her body that carry the ultimate authority in most kinds of theatre, especially in ‘live’ performance. ‘Liveness’ is a category debated in a number of the works reviewed this year, and evidence from the archive is always both invaluable and to be questioned. Nevertheless, the power of the actor to ‘fix’ posthumously an image of a character, assisted in this case by the photographer’s camera, is asserted in Angus McBean’s photograph of Richard Burton as Prince Henry in the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre’s 1951 production of Henry IV, Part Two, which forms the front cover of Shakespeare by McBean, edited by Adrian Woodhouse.
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- Shakespeare Survey 72 , pp. 355 - 368Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
References
Works Reviewed
Aebischer, Pascale, Greenhalgh, Susanne and Osborne, Laurie E., eds., Shakespeare and the ‘Live’ Theatre Broadcast (London, 2018)Google Scholar
Bennett, Susan, and Massai, Sonia, eds., Ivo Van Hove: From Shakespeare to David Bowie (London, 2018)Google Scholar
Bulman, James C., ed., The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Performance (Oxford, 2018)Google Scholar
Joseph, Paterson, Julius Caesar and Me: Exploring Shakespeare’s African Play (London, 2018)Google Scholar
Knapp, Jeffrey, Pleasing Everyone: Mass Entertainment in Renaissance London and Golden-Age Hollywood (New York, 2017)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Oliver, Emily, Shakespeare and German Reunification: The Interface of Politics and Performance (Oxford, 2017)Google Scholar
Rawnsley, Ciara, and White, Robert, eds., The New Fortune Theatre: That Vast Open Stage (Crawley, Western Australia, 2018)Google Scholar
Rosenthal, Daniel, ed., Dramatic Exchanges: The Lives and Letters of the National Theatre (London, 2018)Google Scholar
Shaughnessy, Robert, Shakespeare in the Theatre: The National Theatre, 1963–1975: Olivier and Hall (London, 2018)Google Scholar
Tosh, Will, Playing Indoors: Staging Early Modern Drama in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse (London, 2018)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
White, R. S., Shakespeare’s Cinema of Love: A Study in Genre and Influence (Manchester, 2016)Google Scholar