Authors: Bryan Reynolds
ISBN-13: 9780312293314, ISBN-10: 0312293313
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date Published: September 2003
Edition: REV
Bryan Reynolds is Professor and Head of Doctoral Studies in the Department of Drama at the University of California, Irvine, USA.
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.
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Acknowledgments | ||
Foreword: Seeing Across Shakespeare | ||
1 | Transversal Performance: Shakespace, the September 11 Attacks, and the Critical Future | 1 |
2 | The Making of Authorships: Transversal Navigation in the Wake of Hamlet, Robert Wilson, Wolfgang Wiens, and Shakespace | 29 |
3 | Venetian Ideology or Transversal Power? Iago's Motives and the Means by which Othello Falls | 53 |
4 | "What is the city but the people?" Transversal Performance and Radical Politics in Shakespeare's Coriolanus and Brecht's Coriolan | 85 |
5 | Untimely Ripped: Mediating Witchcraft in Polanski and Shakespeare | 111 |
6 | Nudge, Nudge, Wink, Wink, Know What I Mean, Know What I Mean? A Theoretical Approach to Performance for a Post-Cinema Shakespeare | 137 |
7 | "A little touch of Harry in the night": Translucency and Projective Transversality in the Sexual and National Politics of Henry V | 171 |
8 | Inspriteful Ariels: Transversal Tempests | 189 |
9 | "For such a sight will blind a father's eye": The Spectacle of Suffering in Taymor's Titus | 215 |
10 | Friend or Fo, Shakespeare's Ends is the Means: Revising Early Modern English Iconography, Elisabetta Points Toward the Critical Future | 245 |
Afterword: Walk Like an Egyptian | 271 | |
App | Transversal Poetics - I.E. Mode | 287 |
Notes on Collaborators | 303 | |
Index | 307 |