The Shakespeare Trade: Performances and Appropriations - Couverture souple

Hodgdon, Barbara

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0812213890 ISBN 13 : 9780812213898

Editeur : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998

Synopsis

In these provocative case studies, Barbara Hodgdon examines not only how Shakespeare's plays are staged and restaged by readers and critics as well as by performers and directors, but also how the Elizabethan age itself is recirculated and marketed. Hodgdon's look at The Taming of the Shrew scans from silent films, to the Shrew episode of the eighties television show Moonlighting, to the most recent Royal Shakespeare Company productions. Moving beyond Shakespeare's plays themselves, she considers how film and television have marketed Queen Elizabeth I's popular cultural memory and how Stratford's various museum spaces celebrate and exhibit an "authentic" Shakespeare side by side with "Shakespeare kitsch" - T-shirts, ties, thimbles, savings banks, and other mass market souvenirs. Styled as "a collector's history, " The Shakespeare Trade offers an absorbing and timely account of the means through which Shakespeare's plays, the figure of Shakespeare, and Elizabethan England function in twentieth-century British and American cultures.

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À propos de l'auteur

Barbara Hodgdon is Ellis and Nelle Levitt Professor of English at Duke University and author of The End Crowns All: Closure and Contradiction in Shakespeare's History.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0812213890
• ISBN 13: 9780812213898
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 328
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• Personne responsable: non disponible