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Reenacting Shakespeare in the Shakespeare Aftermath

The Intermedial Turn and Turn to Embodiment

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Authors:
  1. Thomas Cartelli

    1. Department of English, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, USA

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  • Analyzes contemporary Shakespearean reenactments
  • Considers the ways in which new media technology affects styles of Shakespearean stage and filmic production
  • Bridges gaps between Shakespeare in performance scholarship, performance studies scholarship, and global Shakespeare

Part of the book series: Reproducing Shakespeare (RESH)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Reenacting Shakespeare in the Shakespeare Aftermath

      • Thomas Cartelli
      Pages 3-46

    3. The Intermedial Turn and Turn to Embodiment

      • Thomas Cartelli
      Pages 47-81

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 307-343
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About this book

In the Shakespeare aftermath—where all things Shakespearean are available for reassembly and reenactment—experimental transactions with Shakespeare become consequential events in their own right, informed by technologies of performance and display that defy conventional staging and filmic practices. Reenactment signifies here both an undoing and a redoing, above all a doing differently of what otherwise continues to be enacted as the same. Rooted in the modernist avant-garde, this revisionary approach to models of the past is advanced by theater artists and filmmakers whose number includes Romeo Castellucci, Annie Dorsen, Peter Greenaway, Thomas Ostermeier, Ivo van Hove, and New York’s Wooster Group, among others. Although the intermedial turn taken by such artists heralds a virtual future, this book demonstrates that embodiment—in more diverse forms than ever before—continues to exert expressive force in Shakespearean reproduction’s turning world.

Reviews

“Reenacting Shakespeare is an extraordinary, eye-opening study. Cartelli’s book is a brilliantly revelatory guide to ‘experimental’ Shakespeare performances we have seen as well as to those we had not even heard of. Through description to analysis to resonances and beyond, he remakes the theory we need to interpret these cultural constructions of our many revolutionary Shakespeares.” (Peter Holland, McMeel Family Professor of Shakespeare Studies, Notre Dame University, USA; Chair of the International Shakespeare Association) 

“Cartelli’s deeply informed and wide-ranging exploration of recent experimental Shakespeare is the finest book I know on the subject. The fruits of decades of engaged theatergoing, Reenacting Shakespeare in the Shakespeare Aftermath is rich in insight, and will prove no less valuable to contemporary critics and theater practitioners than it will to future generations hoping to grasp what this avant-garde Shakespeare meant to ours.” (James Shapiro, Columbia University, USA, and author of The Year of Lear (2015)

   

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of English, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, USA

    Thomas Cartelli

About the author

Thomas Cartelli is Professor of English & Film Studies at Muhlenberg College, USA. He is author of Marlowe, Shakespeare, and the Economy of Theatrical Experience (1991), Repositioning Shakespeare (1999), and co-author (with Katherine Rowe) of New Wave Shakespeare on Screen (2007). He has also edited The Norton Critical Richard III (2009). 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Reenacting Shakespeare in the Shakespeare Aftermath

  • Book Subtitle: The Intermedial Turn and Turn to Embodiment

  • Authors: Thomas Cartelli

  • Series Title: Reproducing Shakespeare

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-40482-4

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-40481-7Published: 31 January 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-40482-4Published: 11 March 2019

  • Series ISSN: 2730-9304

  • Series E-ISSN: 2730-9312

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 343

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 26 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Shakespeare, Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies

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