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About this book
An international group of scholars reappraise The Winter's Tale through a series of research essays covering performance history, critical history, and new interpretations.
Navigating the play's fluctuating genre conventions, onstage spectacle and leaps across time, scholars consider how eco-materiality, radical hospitality, childhood, gender, and critical race studies shape contemporary understandings and staging of a play that defies easy definition.
By charting these changing interpretive trends, readers are introduced to a rich body of scholarship which shows how the play can be used to confront the experiences of those marginalized by race, age, gender, and nationality, to place fresh attention on the economic and material structures that define the dramatic plot of the play. As The Winter's Tale's depictions of patriarchal violence, vulnerability, economic disparity, border crossings and exploitation continue to draw attention, this guide serves as an invaluable resource for scholars, students and audiences alike. Complete with pedagogical tools including resources and strategies for approaching the play in the classroom, this Critical Reader is an essential collection of scholarship on one of Shakespeare's most audacious experiments.
Navigating the play's fluctuating genre conventions, onstage spectacle and leaps across time, scholars consider how eco-materiality, radical hospitality, childhood, gender, and critical race studies shape contemporary understandings and staging of a play that defies easy definition.
By charting these changing interpretive trends, readers are introduced to a rich body of scholarship which shows how the play can be used to confront the experiences of those marginalized by race, age, gender, and nationality, to place fresh attention on the economic and material structures that define the dramatic plot of the play. As The Winter's Tale's depictions of patriarchal violence, vulnerability, economic disparity, border crossings and exploitation continue to draw attention, this guide serves as an invaluable resource for scholars, students and audiences alike. Complete with pedagogical tools including resources and strategies for approaching the play in the classroom, this Critical Reader is an essential collection of scholarship on one of Shakespeare's most audacious experiments.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Series Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Timeline
- Introduction Peter Kirwan
- 1 The Critical Backstory: Critical Approaches, 1611–2000 Mario DiGangi
- 2 The Performance History: The Winter’s Tale in Performance from the Ends of Opposed Winds Yu Jin Ko
- 3 The State of the Art: Body and Soul: Twenty-First-Century Approaches to The Winter’s Tale, 2000–2023 Christina Luckyj
- 4 New Directions: Recycled Actors: Eco-materiality and Doubling in The Winter’s Tale Mark Beatrice Kaethler
- 5 New Directions: Radical Hospitality and The Winter’s Tale Ruben Espinosa
- 6 New Directions: ‘Things newborn’; or, ‘Waiting for Proserpina’: Regendering Childhood in The Winter’s Tale Gemma Miller
- 7 New Directions: Was Leontes Black? Todd Andrew Borlik
- 8 Teaching and Learning Resources Yan Brailowsky
- Select Bibliography
- Index