Childhood in Contemporary Performance of Shakespeare

Gemma Miller (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2020
The Arden Shakespeare (Verlag)
978-1-350-13314-3 (ISBN)

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Child characters feature more numerously and prominently in the Shakespearean canon than in that of any other early modern playwright. Focusing on stage and film productions from the past four decades, this study addresses how Shakespeare's child characters are reflected, refracted and reinterpreted in performance. By adopting an interdisciplinary approach that incorporates close reading, semiotics, childhood studies, queer theory and performance studies, Gemma Miller explores how a close analysis of Shakespeare’s child characters, both in the text and in performance, can reveal often uncomfortable truths about contemporary ideas of childhood, as well as offer fresh insights into the plays.

Among the works and productions analysed are stage productions of Richard III by Sean Holmes and Thomas Ostermeier; Jamie Lloyd’s and Michael Boyd’s stage productions of Macbeth and the films of Roman Polanski and Justin Kurzel; Deborah Warner’s stage production of Titus Andronicus and filmed adaptations by Jane Howell and Julie Taymor; and stage productions of The Winter's Tale by Nicholas Hytner, and by Kenneth Branagh and Rob Ashford, and the ballet adaptation by Christopher Wheeldon.

Gemma Miller teaches in the English Department at King’s College London, at Ithaca College London Centre, Tufts in London, and for Globe Education at Shakespeare’s Globe, UK.

Acknowledgements

Notes on Text

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1
From the facsimile page to the plastic princes: the effacement of childhood in Richard III

Chapter 2
‘Fair is foul and foul is fair’: The janus-faced child in Macbeth

Chapter 3
‘Behold the child’: the burden of futurity in Titus Andronicus

Chapter 4
‘No age’: disappearing childhood in The Winter's Tale

Conclusion
Performing childhood: Shakespeare and beyond

References

Notes

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	17.04.2020
Zusatzinfo	16 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	386 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-350-13314-0 / 1350133140
ISBN-13	978-1-350-13314-3 / 9781350133143
Zustand	Neuware