Eubanks Winkler / Fretz / Schoch Performing Restoration Shakespeare

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-009-24123-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 0 Seiten

Performing Restoration Shakespeare embraces the performative and musical qualities of Restoration Shakespeare (1660–1714), drawing on the expertise of theatre historians, musicologists, literary critics, and - importantly - theatre and music practitioners. The volume advances methodological debates in theatre studies and musicology by advocating an alternative to performance practices aimed at reviving 'original' styles or conventions, adopting a dialectical process that situates past performances within their historical and aesthetic contexts, and then using that understanding to transform them into new performances for new audiences. By deploying these methodologies, the volume invites scholars from different disciplines to understand Restoration Shakespeare on its own terms, discarding inhibiting preconceptions that Restoration Shakespeare debased Shakespeare's precursor texts. It also equips scholars and practitioners in theatre and music with new - and much needed - methods for studying and reviving past performances of any kind, not just Shakespearean ones.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eubanks Winkler, Amanda

Fretz, Claude

Schoch, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: new Shakespeare for a new era Amanda Eubanks Winkler, Claude Fretz, and Richard Schoch; Part I. Documents of Performance: 1. From boards to books: the circulation of Shakespearean songs in manuscript and print during the interregnum Sarah Ledwidge; 2. Heroic Shakespeare at Lincoln's Inn fields Stephen Watkins; 3. More than a song and dance? Identifying Matthew Locke's incidental music for Macbeth Silas Wollston; Part II. Performance History and Performance Now: 4. Cross-Dressing in restoration Shakespeare: Twelfth night and the tempest Fiona Ritchie; 5. Performing restoration Shakespeare in the eighteenth century James Harriman-Smith; 6. An actor's perspective on restoration Shakespeare Louis Butelli; 7. Staging restoration Shakespeare with restoration music Robert Eisenstein; Part III. Practice-Based Research: 8. Davenant's lady Macduff and the subversion of normative femininity in twenty-first-century performance Sara Reimers; 9. Facts as ideas: the theatricalization of scholarship Kate Eastwood Norris; 10. Syncopated time: taging the restoration tempest Amanda Eubanks Winkler and Richard Schoch.

Über Autor(innen)

Eubanks Winkler, Amanda
Amanda Eubanks Winkler, Professor of Music History and Cultures at Syracuse University, is a cultural historian and musicologist specializing in British music and drama. She was the Co-Investigator for the AHRC research project Performing Restoration Shakespeare. Her most recent book is Music, Dance, and Drama in Early Modern English Schools (Cambridge University Press, 2020).

Schoch, Richard
Richard Schoch is Professor of Drama at Queen's University Belfast, where he was Principal Investigator for the research project Performing Restoration Shakespeare. His most recent books are A Short History of Shakespeare in Performance (2021) and Writing the History of the British Stage (2016), both published by Cambridge University Press.

Fretz, Claude
Claude Fretz is Associate Professor of Shakespeare and early modern literature at Sun Yat-sen University (China). He is also Fellow of the research centre 'European Dream-Cultures' at Saarland University (Germany). He is the author of Dreams, Sleep, and Shakespeare's Genres (2020), and he has published various journal articles and book chapters on Shakespeare, early modern literature, representations of dreams and sleep in the Renaissance, modern theatre practice, and Restoration drama.