| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 180 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-180). |
| Contents |
The spectacular in context. -- "Thus much show of fire" : storm and spectacle in the opening of the Globe / Gwilym Jones -- Spectacular science : a comparison of Shakespeare's The tempest, Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and Bacon's New Atlantis / Mickael Popelard -- Spectacle, myth and power in The princely pleasures of Kenilworth by George Gascoigne / Cécile Mauré -- Shakespearean virtuosity in The winter's tale and the Mannerist tour de force / Josée Nuyts-Giornal -- Anti-spectacular Shakespeare. -- Resisting counterfeiting and bodily exhibition in Coriolanus / Pascale Drouet -- The anti-spectacular in Timon of Athens / Richard Hillman -- Appropriating the spectacular. -- Queering the gaze : Julia Pascal's Merchant of Venice / Sonia Massai -- "Plenty of blood. That's the only writing" : (mis)representing Jacobean tragedy in turn-of-the-century cinema / Gordon McMullan -- Around Family gathering, or RIII's Dance of death : a pictorial interpretation of King Richard III / Edouard Lekston. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
This volume addresses the economy of the spectacular in and around Shakespeare's plays, both in early modern England and in late-twentieth/twenty-first-century adaptations and appropriations. Apart from addressing issues such as (im)plausibility, tours de. |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Dramatic production.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history.
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Spectacular, The, in literature.
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DRAMA -- Shakespeare.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Drouet, Pascale, 1971-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Spectacular in and around Shakespeare. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009 9781443811057 (DLC) 2009379975 (OCoLC)390400629 |
| ISBN |
9781443812047 (electronic bk.) |
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1443812048 (electronic bk.) |
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