Intermedial Shakespeares on European Stages

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Aneta Mancewicz

   Pages 1-19

3. Drama: Intermedial Texture

   • Aneta Mancewicz

   Pages 20-52

4. Time and Space: Intermedial Stratigraphy

   • Aneta Mancewicz

   Pages 53-80

5. Actors and Audiences: Intermedial Mirror

   • Aneta Mancewicz

   Pages 81-107

6. New Media as Old Media

   • Aneta Mancewicz

   Pages 108-145

7. Digital Intermediality without Digital Technology

   • Aneta Mancewicz

   Pages 146-165

8. Conclusion

   • Aneta Mancewicz

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9. Back Matter

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Intermedial Shakespeares argues that intermediality has refashioned performances of Shakespeare's plays over the last two decades in Europe. It describes ways in which text and author, time and space, actor and audience have been redefined in Shakespearean productions that incorporate digital media, and it traces transformations in practice.

• Intermedial performance
• Performance and technology
• Shakespeare in performance
• Europe
• stage
• William Shakespeare

In Intermedial Shakespeare on European Stages , Aneta Mancewicz sets contemporary Shakespeare performance at the center of an emerging, "intermedial" critique of theatrical production. Rather than understanding the stage as a secondary medium for the replication of dramatic writing, Mancewicz sees contemporary Shakespeare to stage an inter-exchange between textual, live-acting, and recorded media of performance. Shakespearean drama, here, is not so much presumed as negotiated by performance, and Mancewicz engages the conceptual work of intermediation through rigorous readings of some of the most demanding of recent Continental stage productions. Tracing the theoretical work of contemporary Shakespeare performance, Intermedial Shakespeare on European Stages opens a valuable perspective on the interplay between Shakespearean drama and our changing modes and means of production. - W. B. Worthen, Barnard College, Columbia University, USA

• Kingston University, UK

  Aneta Mancewicz

Aneta Mancewicz is Lecturer in Drama at the Kingston University, UK. She was Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She is the Editor for Europe at the Global Shakespeares Video and Performance Archive, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA and co-convener of the Intermediality working group of the International Federation for Theatre Research.

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