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Shakespeare and the cultures of performance / edited by Paul Yachnin and Patricia Badir.

  • Accession number

    83431055

  • Class

    Reading Room - 72/SHA/YAC

  • ISBN

    9780754655855 (hbk.), 0754655857 (hbk.)

  • Language

    English

  • Physical description

    xiii, 210 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.

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Bibliography, etc. note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-202) and index. Formatted contents note: Shakespeare and the theatrical performance of rusticity / David Bevington -- Payback time: on the economic rhetoric of revenge in the Merchant of Venice / Linda Woodbridge -- To give and to receive: performing exchanges in the Merchant of Venice / Sean Lawrence / To "gase so much at the fine stranger": Armado and the politics of English in Love’s labour’s lost / Lynne Magnusson -- "Does not the stone rebuke me": the Pauline Rebuke and Paulina’s Lawful magic in the Winter’s tale / Huston Diehl -- Shakespeare and secular performance / Anthony B. Dawson -- Discharging less than the tenth part of one: performance anxiety and in Troilus and Cressida / Gretchen E. Minton -- Forbidden mixtures: Shakespeare in blackface minstrelsy, 1844 / Coppe´lia Kahn -- The tempest and the uses of late Shakespeare in the cultures of performance: Prospero, Gielgud, Rylance / Gordon McMullan. Summary, etc: This collection strives to bring better understanding to Shakespeare's imaginative investment in the relationship between theatrical production and the emotional, intellectual and cultural effects of performance broadly defined in social terms.