Ours As We Play It (Paperback)

Kate Flaherty

ISBN 10: 1742582621 / ISBN 13: 9781742582627

Editore: UWA Publishing, Crawley, WA, 2011

Paperback. Shakespeare's plays are permeable to the contexts in which they are performed: they take on and speak to local concerns. Ours As We Play It takes a close look at several contemporary Australian productions of three Shakespearean plays; exploring masculinity and madness in Hamlet, the role of landscape and the multiple roles of Rosalind in As You Like It, and hierarchies of gender and social order re-imagined in relation to Australian understandings of power in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Shakespeare's plays are permeable to the contexts in which they are performed: they take on and speak to local concerns. Ours As We Play It takes a close look at several contemporary Australian productions of three Shakespearean plays; exploring masculinity and madness in Hamlet , the role of landscape and the multiple roles of Rosalind in . Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9781742582627

Riassunto:

Shakespeare's plays are permeable to the contexts in which they are performed, taking on and speaking to local concerns. Early modern audiences would have experienced the humor and resonance of local identification with his plays. The same is true in present day Australia, where the content of that local identification with Shakespeare's plays is uniquely Australian. Ours As We Play It documents the use of Shakespeare's works to explore contemporary issues. The book takes a close look at several contemporary Australian productions of three of Shakespeare's best-loved plays: exploring masculinity and madness in Hamlet, the role of landscape and the multiple roles of Rosalind in As You Like It, and hierarchies of gender and social order re-imagined in relation to Australian understandings of power in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

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Titolo: Ours As We Play It (Paperback)
Casa editrice: UWA Publishing, Crawley, WA
Data di pubblicazione: 2011
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: new