Shakespeare on the University Stage

This collection is the first study of student Shakespeare productions at universities and colleges across the world.

Andrew James Hartley (Edited by)

9781107634046, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 26 October 2017

304 pages, 13 b/w illus. 1 table
23 x 15.3 x 1.5 cm, 0.47 kg

'This highly intelligent collection of essays, written by practitioners and eyewitnesses as well as by some of the most important theatre scholars writing today, at last puts student Shakespeare onto our intellectual map. As impressive in its geographical and historical scope as it is in its depth, Shakespeare on the University Stage reveals campus production as a rich, diverse and scandalously under-studied field of Shakespearean performance, now at last ripe for analysis and appreciation.' Michael Dobson, University of Birmingham

Featuring essays from seventeen international scholars, this exciting new collection is the first sustained study of Shakespeare on the university and college stage. Treating the subject both historically and globally, the essays describe theatrical conditions that fit neither the professional nor the amateur models and show how student performances provide valuable vehicles for artistic construction and intellectual analysis. The book redresses the neglect of this distinctive form of Shakespeare performance, opening up new ways of thinking about the nature and value of university production and its ability to draw unique audiences. Looking at productions across the world - from Asia to Europe and North America - it will interest scholars as well as upper-level students in areas such as Shakespeare studies, performance studies and theatre history.

Introduction: tragedians of the city, little eyases or rude mechanicals? Andrew James Hartley
1. Campus Shakespeare: fragments of a history, fragments of a concept Peter Holland
2. Performance, religion and Shakespeare: staging ideology at Notre Dame Mark C. Pilkinton
3. George Rylands and Cambridge University Shakespeare Michael Cordner
4. Women who will make a difference: Shakespeare at Wellesley College Yu Jin Ko
5. Appropriating Shakespeare on campus: an Indian perspective Angelie Multani
6. Ideology and student performances in China Lee Chee Keng and Yong Li Lan
7. Shakespeare without resources: staging Shakespeare in the Midwest Andrea Stevens
8. Shakespeare isn't just for the professionals: Shakespeare on the German campus Christa Jansohn
9. Holofernes, Peregrine and I: Australian campus Shakespeare Rob Conkie
10. The politics and economics of Malaysian campus productions of Shakespeare Nurul Farhana Low bt Abdullah
11. The Performance Research Group's Anthony and Cleopatra (2010) Jacquelyn Bessell
12. The laws of Athens: Shakespeare and the campus economy Paul Menzer
13. Queering Shakespeare in the American South Chad Allen Thomas
14. Shakespeare laboratories and performance-as-research Jonathan Heron
15. The small-college stage: is there still room for Shakespeare? Douglas E. Green
16. The Shakespeare performance campus W. B. Worthen
Index.

Subject Areas: Shakespeare studies & criticism [DSGS], Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 [DSBD], Shakespeare plays [DDS], Theatre studies [AN]