Book contents
- Shakespeare Survey 73
- Shakespeare Survey
- Shakespeare Survey 73
- Copyright page
- Editor’s Note
- Contributors
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Continental Shakespeare
- The Stranger at the Door: Belonging in Shakespeare’s Ephesus
- City Origins, Lost Identities and Print Errors in The Comedy of Errors
- The Circulation of Youthful Energy on the Early Modern London Stage: Migration, Intertheatricality and ‘Growing to Common Players’
- In Conversation with Shakespeare in Jacobean London: Social Insanity and its Taming Schools in 1&2 Honest Whore
- Hearing Voices: Signal Versus Urban Noise in Coriolanus and Augustine’s Confessions
- Caesar and Lear in Hong Kong: Appropriating Shakespeare to Express the Inexpressible
- Before We Sleep: Macbeth and the Curtain Lecture
- ‘The Story Shall be Changed’: Antique Fables and Agency in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- A Lawful Magic: New Worlds of Precedent in Mabo and The Winter’s Tale
- ‘Cabined, Cribbed, Confined’: Advice to Actors and the Priorities of Shakespearian Scholarship
- ‘What Country, Friends, is This?’: Tim Supple’s Twelfth Night Revisited
- Through a Glass Darkly: Sophie Okonedo’s Margaret as Racial Other in The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses
- ‘Who’s There?’ Britain’s Twenty-First-Century Obsession with Celebrity Hamlet (2008–2018)
- Shakespeare Performances in England, 2019
- Productions Outside London
- Professional Shakespeare Productions in the British Isles, January–December 2018
- The Year’s Contributions to Shakespeare Studies
- Abstracts of Articles in Shakespeare Survey 73
- Index
Productions Outside London
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 September 2020
- Shakespeare Survey 73
- Shakespeare Survey
- Shakespeare Survey 73
- Copyright page
- Editor’s Note
- Contributors
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Continental Shakespeare
- The Stranger at the Door: Belonging in Shakespeare’s Ephesus
- City Origins, Lost Identities and Print Errors in The Comedy of Errors
- The Circulation of Youthful Energy on the Early Modern London Stage: Migration, Intertheatricality and ‘Growing to Common Players’
- In Conversation with Shakespeare in Jacobean London: Social Insanity and its Taming Schools in 1&2 Honest Whore
- Hearing Voices: Signal Versus Urban Noise in Coriolanus and Augustine’s Confessions
- Caesar and Lear in Hong Kong: Appropriating Shakespeare to Express the Inexpressible
- Before We Sleep: Macbeth and the Curtain Lecture
- ‘The Story Shall be Changed’: Antique Fables and Agency in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- A Lawful Magic: New Worlds of Precedent in Mabo and The Winter’s Tale
- ‘Cabined, Cribbed, Confined’: Advice to Actors and the Priorities of Shakespearian Scholarship
- ‘What Country, Friends, is This?’: Tim Supple’s Twelfth Night Revisited
- Through a Glass Darkly: Sophie Okonedo’s Margaret as Racial Other in The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses
- ‘Who’s There?’ Britain’s Twenty-First-Century Obsession with Celebrity Hamlet (2008–2018)
- Shakespeare Performances in England, 2019
- Productions Outside London
- Professional Shakespeare Productions in the British Isles, January–December 2018
- The Year’s Contributions to Shakespeare Studies
- Abstracts of Articles in Shakespeare Survey 73
- Index
Summary
Friday 13th December, 2019. By a cruel and unusual coincidence, the deadline for filing this piece fell hours after a UK General Election in which the turkeys voted emphatically for Christmas. Amid the louring clouds, a small silver lining: it will be at least five years before the Prime Minister returns to his unfinished biography of William Shakespeare. It is not a pleasant thought, but I would rather he was finishing the book, even if (like his biography of Churchill) it is bound to be an exercise in regurgitation, vanity and self-projection. The relevance of the General Election result to this column – and especially those that follow it in the years ahead – lies in the direction of travel it implies for the UK and its cultural life. The new government will likely double down on the culture wars to distract from the continuing erosion of public services and the immiseration of large parts of the population. Leftie-bashing is back in vogue and this will be felt keenly by theatre-makers. Arts education will continue to be a privilege and not a right, a gift reserved largely for the privately educated, with severe implications for actor training and the pipeline of talent.
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Shakespeare Survey 73Shakespeare and the City, pp. 223 - 239Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020