Shakespeare and the Challenge of the Contemporary: Performance, Politics and Aesthetics

Author:   Francesca Clare Rayner (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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9781350269071


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   29 June 2023
Format:   Paperback
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Shakespeare and the Challenge of the Contemporary: Performance, Politics and Aesthetics


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Contemporary performance is a particularly stimulating area for the study of how Shakespeare is produced and received in different cultural contexts. Francesca Clare Rayner’s original and thought-provoking book highlights the diversity and experimentalism of contemporary performance practices through a focus on unexplored performances in Portugal. This book references key debates within contemporary performance studies on intermediality, globalization and political participation and analyses their particular configurations within the Portuguese context. These case studies represent clear alternatives to the market-driven view of the contemporary as the continual reproduction of the new and the topical for global consumers. Instead, they recast the contemporary as a site of disempowerment, crisis and erasure in a Europe fragmented by economic austerity, political divisions around Brexit, ecological vacillation and an anxious refashioning of global relations between North and South.

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Author:   Francesca Clare Rayner (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   The Arden Shakespeare
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781350269071


ISBN 10:   1350269077
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   29 June 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Chapter 1: Charting the Contemporary Chapter 2: Intermedial Collaborations: Teatro Praga’s Shakespeare Trilogy Chapter 3: Shakespeare and Cultural Memory: Shakespearean Traces in the Work of Tiago Rodrigues Chapter 4: Staging the Nation: Nuno Cardoso’s Political Shakespeares Chapter 5: Moving the audience: Christiane Jatahy’s The Walking Forest Chapter 6: Shakespearean Travesties: Mala Voadora’s Hamlet Chapter 7: Eco-critical Performance: Tonan Quito’s Richard III Chapter 8: New Challenges for Contemporary Performance Criticism Bibliography Notes Index

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Francesca Clare Rayner is Assistant Professor at the University of Minho, Portugal. Her research centres on the cultural politics of performance, with a particular interest in the performance of Shakespeare in Portugal. She has published widely on Shakespeare and performance in national and international journals and contributed chapters to several volumes on Shakespeare and performance.

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