Shakespeare’s Contested Nations: Race, Gender, and Multicultural Britain in Performances of the History Plays - Brossura

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Pittman, L. Monique

 
9781032252483: Shakespeare’s Contested Nations: Race, Gender, and Multicultural Britain in Performances of the History Plays
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ISBN 10: 1032252480 ISBN 13: 9781032252483
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2023

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Shakespeare’s Contested Nations argues that performances of Shakespearean history at British institutional venues between 2000 and 2016 manifest a post-imperial nostalgia that fails to tell the nation’s story in ways that account for the agential impact of women and people of color, thus foreclosing promising opportunities to re-examine the nation’s multicultural past, present, and future in more intentional, self-critical, and truly progressive ways.

A cluster of interconnected stage and televisual performances and adaptations of the history play canon illustrate the function that Shakespeare’s narratives of incipient "British" identities fulfill for the postcolonial United Kingdom. The book analyzes treatments of the plays in a range of styles―staged performances directed by Michael Boyd with the Royal Shakespeare Company (2000–2001) and Nicholas Hytner at the National Theatre (2003, 2005), the BBC’s Hollow Crown series (2012, 2016), the RSC and BBC adaptations of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies (2013, 2015), and a contemporary reinterpretation of the canon, Mike Bartlett’s King Charles III (2014, 2017).

This book will be of great interest to scholars and students of Shakespeare, theatre, and politics.

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Informazioni sull?autore

L. Monique Pittman is Professor of English and Director of the J. N. Andrews Honors Program at Andrews University, USA.

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Routledge
Data di pubblicazione
2023
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1032252480
ISBN 13 
9781032252483
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Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
260
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9780367488314: Shakespeare’s Contested Nations: Race, Gender, and Multicultural Britain in Performances of the History Plays

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ISBN 10:  0367488310 ISBN 13:  9780367488314
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2022
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