About Shakespeare
Bodies, Spaces and Texts

Examining theatrical bodies, the spaces inhabited by actors and audiences, and the texts that circulate around and between them.

Robert Shaughnessy (Author)

9781108725484, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 1 October 2020

75 pages
18 x 12.7 x 0.5 cm, 0.084 kg

This Element addresses the question of what Shakespeare in contemporary performance is about, and whether it really is, as it may claim to be, about Shakespeare. Far from charting a smooth journey from page to stage, the work of making Shakespeare into performances often involves deflection, evasion and circumnavigation. Drawing upon the work of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare's Globe and the Schaubühne Berlin, About Shakespeare examines theatrical bodies, the spaces inhabited by actors and audiences, and the texts that circulate around and between them.

Introduction
1. Falstaff's Body Parts 1 and 2
2. Connecting the Globe
3. Shakespeare, in Other Words.

Subject Areas: Shakespeare studies & criticism [DSGS], Literary studies: plays & playwrights [DSG], Literature: history & criticism [DS]