Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Humane Statute and the Gentle Weal: Historical Reading and Historical Allegory
- Macbeth’s Knowledge
- ‘The Grace of Grace’ and Double-Talk in Macbeth
- Remind Me: How Many Children Had Lady Macbeth?
- Taking Macbeth out of Himself: Davenant, Garrick, Schiller and Verdi
- ‘Two truths are told’: Afterlives and Histories of Macbeths
- Doing All That Becomes a Man: The Reception and Afterlife of the Macbeth Actor, 1744–1889
- Macbeth and Kierkegaard
- Monsieur Macbeth: from Jarry to Ionesco
- The Politics of Sleepwalking: American Lady Macbeths
- Macbird! and Macbeth: Topicality and Imitation in Barbara Garson’s Satirical Pastiche
- Mick Jagger Macbeth
- ‘The Zulu Macbeth’: The Value of an ‘African Shakespeare’
- ‘A Drum, a Drum – Macbeth doth come’: When Birnam Wood moved to China
- The Banquet of Scotland (PA)
- Scoff power in Love’s Labour’s Lost and the Inns of Court: Language in Context
- Mercury, Boy Yet and the ‘Harsh’ Words of Love’s Labour’s Lost
- Shakespeare, Sir Thomas More and Asylum Seekers
- Hal as Self-Styled Redeemer: The Harrowing of Hell and Henry IV Part 1
- Mr Hamlet of Broadway
- Shakespeare Performances in England, 2003
- Professional Shakespeare Productions in the British Isles January–December 2002
- The Year's Contributions to Shakespearian Study 1 Critical Studies
- 2 Shakespeare in Performance
- 3 Editions and Textual Studies
- Books Received
- Index
2 - Shakespeare in Performance
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2007
- Frontmatter
- Humane Statute and the Gentle Weal: Historical Reading and Historical Allegory
- Macbeth’s Knowledge
- ‘The Grace of Grace’ and Double-Talk in Macbeth
- Remind Me: How Many Children Had Lady Macbeth?
- Taking Macbeth out of Himself: Davenant, Garrick, Schiller and Verdi
- ‘Two truths are told’: Afterlives and Histories of Macbeths
- Doing All That Becomes a Man: The Reception and Afterlife of the Macbeth Actor, 1744–1889
- Macbeth and Kierkegaard
- Monsieur Macbeth: from Jarry to Ionesco
- The Politics of Sleepwalking: American Lady Macbeths
- Macbird! and Macbeth: Topicality and Imitation in Barbara Garson’s Satirical Pastiche
- Mick Jagger Macbeth
- ‘The Zulu Macbeth’: The Value of an ‘African Shakespeare’
- ‘A Drum, a Drum – Macbeth doth come’: When Birnam Wood moved to China
- The Banquet of Scotland (PA)
- Scoff power in Love’s Labour’s Lost and the Inns of Court: Language in Context
- Mercury, Boy Yet and the ‘Harsh’ Words of Love’s Labour’s Lost
- Shakespeare, Sir Thomas More and Asylum Seekers
- Hal as Self-Styled Redeemer: The Harrowing of Hell and Henry IV Part 1
- Mr Hamlet of Broadway
- Shakespeare Performances in England, 2003
- Professional Shakespeare Productions in the British Isles January–December 2002
- The Year's Contributions to Shakespearian Study 1 Critical Studies
- 2 Shakespeare in Performance
- 3 Editions and Textual Studies
- Books Received
- Index
Summary
That Shakespeare in performance has come of critical age seems to be signalled by the volume dedicated to it in Cambridge University Press’s Companion series. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Stage edited by Stanley Wells and Sarah Stanton joins Companions to ‘Shakespeare’, ‘Shakespeare on Film’, ‘Shakespearian Comedy’, ‘Shakespeare’s History Plays’ and, forthcoming, ‘Shakespeare’s Tragedies’. The asymmetry of this taxonomic division may seem rather like Foucault’s report of the Chinese encyclopaedia’s distribution of the animal kingdom: the rationale offered in the volume is a response to ‘the increasing number of courses devoted to the history of Shakespeare in performance’ (p. xv). Something more explicit on the demands, opportunities and theory of this pedagogical shift might have been useful – a curious lack of reflection on methodological issues emerges as a dominant theme of writing on Shakespeare in performance – but the contributions map an elegant conspectus of approaches to the subject. The collection opens with ‘Shakespeare’s Plays on Renaissance Stages’, and then there are chapters on Restoration, Romantic, Victorian, neo-Elizabethan and twentieth-century production trends. A clutch of chapters consider non-English stage traditions, in North America, Asia and Africa, and there are chapters on political Shakespeare, on women, on touring, and on comic and tragic actors.
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- Shakespeare SurveyAn Annual Survey of Shakespeare Studies and Production, pp. 325 - 335Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004