Performing Nostalgia

Shifting Shakespeare and the Contemporary Past

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Susan Bennett

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Contemporary culture is obsessed with the past. And contemporary performance is obsessed with Shakespeare. Why does Shakespeare so often perform the nostalgic role of reviving a better past for modern audiences? And what do radical rewritings of Shakespeare's plays say both to and about their audiences? This is an inquiry into how Shakespeare is reproduced today. It looks at the enduring influence he has on present-day performance, and questions how inter-cultural and cross-cultural productions reconfigure him for "alternative" performances. An attempt is made to speak across many divides - from literature to theatre, from theory to practice.

Author Biography:

Susan Bennett is Associate Professor of English at the University of Calgary. She is the author of Theatre Audiences: A Theory of Production and Reception (Routledge, 1990).

Release date Australia

December 7th, 1995

Author

Susan Bennett

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Undergraduate

Pages

208

Dimensions

138x216x20

ISBN-13

9780415073257

Product ID

5771564

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