Shakespeare and the Challenge of the Contemporary
Performance, Politics and Aesthetics
- 224 pages
- English
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Shakespeare and the Challenge of the Contemporary
Performance, Politics and Aesthetics
About this book
Contemporary performance is a particularly stimulating area for the study of how Shakespeare is produced and received in different cultural contexts. Francesca Clare Rayner's original and thought-provoking book highlights the diversity and experimentalism of contemporary performance practices through a focus on unexplored performances in Portugal. This book references key debates within contemporary performance studies on intermediality, globalization and political participation and analyses their particular configurations within the Portuguese context. These case studies represent clear alternatives to the market-driven view of the contemporary as the continual reproduction of the new and the topical for global consumers. Instead, they recast the contemporary as a site of disempowerment, crisis and erasure in a Europe fragmented by economic austerity, political divisions around Brexit, ecological vacillation and an anxious refashioning of global relations between North and South.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Series
- Dedication
- Title
- Contents
- List of figures
- Foreword: Time is of the essence Rui Carvalho Homem
- Note on translation
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The challenge of the contemporary in Shakespearean performance
- 1 Border crossings: Intermedial collaborations in Teatro Praga’s Shakespeare trilogy
- 2 Memories of the future: Tiago Rodrigues and dramaturgies of the Shakespearean trace
- 3 Cruel optimism: Nuno Cardoso’s political Shakespeares
- 4 Empowering the spectator: Christiane Jatahy’s The Moving Forest
- 5 Licensing experiment: mala voadora’s Hamlet
- 6 Performance matters: Contemporary Shakespearean performance criticism
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Copyright