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Performing Transversally: Reimagining Shakespeare and the Critical Future » (REV)

Book cover image of Performing Transversally: Reimagining Shakespeare and the Critical Future by Bryan Reynolds

Authors: Bryan Reynolds
ISBN-13: 9780312293314, ISBN-10: 0312293313
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date Published: September 2003
Edition: REV

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Author Biography: Bryan Reynolds

Bryan Reynolds is Professor and Head of Doctoral Studies in the Department of Drama at the University of California, Irvine, USA.

Book Synopsis

Performing Transversally expands on Bryan Reynolds' controversial transversal theory in exciting ways while offering groundbreaking analyses of Shakespeare's plays--Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, Taming of the Shrew, Titus Andronicus, Henry V, The Tempest, and Coriolanus--and textual, filmic, and theatrical adaptations of them.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Foreword: Seeing Across Shakespeare
1Transversal Performance: Shakespace, the September 11 Attacks, and the Critical Future1
2The Making of Authorships: Transversal Navigation in the Wake of Hamlet, Robert Wilson, Wolfgang Wiens, and Shakespace29
3Venetian Ideology or Transversal Power? Iago's Motives and the Means by which Othello Falls53
4"What is the city but the people?" Transversal Performance and Radical Politics in Shakespeare's Coriolanus and Brecht's Coriolan85
5Untimely Ripped: Mediating Witchcraft in Polanski and Shakespeare111
6Nudge, Nudge, Wink, Wink, Know What I Mean, Know What I Mean? A Theoretical Approach to Performance for a Post-Cinema Shakespeare137
7"A little touch of Harry in the night": Translucency and Projective Transversality in the Sexual and National Politics of Henry V171
8Inspriteful Ariels: Transversal Tempests189
9"For such a sight will blind a father's eye": The Spectacle of Suffering in Taymor's Titus215
10Friend or Fo, Shakespeare's Ends is the Means: Revising Early Modern English Iconography, Elisabetta Points Toward the Critical Future245
Afterword: Walk Like an Egyptian271
AppTransversal Poetics - I.E. Mode287
Notes on Collaborators303
Index307

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