Games and Theatre in Shakespeare's England

Tom Bishop, Gina Bloom, Erika T. Lin (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

332 Seiten

2021
Amsterdam University Press (Verlag)
978-94-6372-325-1 (ISBN)

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Games and Theatre in Shakespeare's England brings together theories of play and game with theatre and performance to produce new understandings of the history and design of early modern English drama. Through literary analysis and embodied practice, an international team of distinguished scholars examines a wide range of games—from dicing to bowling to role-playing to videogames—to uncover their fascinating ramifications for the stage in Shakespeare’s era and our own. Foregrounding ludic elements challenges the traditional view of drama as principally mimesis, or imitation, revealing stageplays to be improvisational experiments and participatory explorations into the motive, means, and value of recreation. Delving into both canonical masterpieces and hidden gems, this innovative volume stakes a claim for play as the crucial link between games and early modern theatre, and for the early modern theatre as a critical site for unraveling the continued cultural significance and performative efficacy of gameplay today.

Tom Bishop is Professor of English at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Gina Bloom is Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. Erika T. Lin is Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance at the Graduate Center, CUNY.

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations

Introduction (Tom Bishop, Gina Bloom, and Erika T. Lin)

Part I
1. The Player’s Game: The Activity of the Player in Early Modern Drama (Stephen Purcell)
2. “The Madnes of Tenys” and the Commercialization of Pastimes in Early Tudor London (David Kathman)
3. The Roll of the Dice and the Whims of Fate in Sixteenth-Century Morality Drama (Katherine Steele Brokaw)
4. “The games afoote”: Playing, Preying and Projecting in Richard Brome’s The Court Beggar (Heather Hirschfeld)

Part II
5. Playing with Paradoxes in Troilus and Cressida (Patricia Badir)
6. Bowling Alone, or The Whole Point of No Return (Paul Menzer)
7. Playing (in) the Streets: Games and Adaptation in The Merchant of Venice (Marissa Greenberg)

Part III
8. The Moods of Gamification in The Tempest (Ellen MacKay)
9. Videogames and Hamlet: Experiencing Tragic Choice and Consequences (Rebecca Bushnell)
10. Shakespeare Videogames, Adaptation/Appropriation, and Collaborative Reception (Geoffrey Way)
11. Shakespeare, Game, and Play in Digital Pedagogical Shakespeare Games (Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Shawn DeSouza-Coelho)
Epilogue: Field of Play: Gamifying Early Modern Theatre and Performance Studies (Natasha Korda)

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Erscheinungsdatum	24.08.2021
Reihe/Serie	Cultures of Play
Co-Autor	Katherine Steele Brokaw, Rebecca Bushnell
Zusatzinfo	1 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Amsterdam
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	94-6372-325-0 / 9463723250
ISBN-13	978-94-6372-325-1 / 9789463723251
Zustand	Neuware