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The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Performance, Paperback / softback Book

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Performance Paperback / softback

Edited by James C. (Henry B. and Patricia Bush Tippie Professor of English, Henry B. and Patricia Bush Bulman

Paperback / softback

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The Oxford Handbooks to Shakespeare are designed to record past and present investigations and renewed and revised judgments by both familiar and younger Shakespeare specialists.

Each of these volumes is edited by one or more internationally distinguished Shakespeareans; together, they comprehensively survey the entire field. Shakespearean performance criticism has firmly established itself as a discipline accessible to scholars and general readers alike. And just as performances of the plays expand audiences' understanding of how Shakespeare speaks to them, so performance criticism is continually shifting the contours of the discipline.

The 36 contributions in this volume represent the most current approaches to Shakespeare in performance.

They are divided into four parts. Part I explores how experimental modes of performance ensure Shakespeare's contemporaneity.

Part II tackles the burgeoning field of reception: how and why audiences respond to performances as they do.

Part III addresses the ways in which technology has revolutionized our access to Shakespeare, both through the mediums of film and sound recording and through digitalization.

Part IV grapples with 'global' Shakespeare, considering matters of cultural appropriation in productions played for international audiences.

Together, these ground-breaking essays attest to the richness and diversity of Shakespearean performance criticism as it is practiced today

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