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Shakespeare and the Cultures of Performance offers a comprehensive exploration of theatrical performance through the lens of performance studies and early modern drama. This scholarly volume examines how Shakespeare's works functioned as both individual aesthetic experiences and communal cultural events, combining theatre history methodologies with phenomenological inquiry. The contributors investigate the affective and aesthetic dimensions of language and spectacle whilst carefully considering the social, ideological and institutional contexts that shaped production and reception practices. By bridging formalist analysis with institutional critique, this collection provides readers with nuanced understanding of how early modern performance operated within specific cultural frameworks, making it essential for theatre historians, Shakespeare scholars and students of performance theory seeking deeper insight into the complex relationship between dramatic text, performance practice and cultural meaning-making.

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Combines theatre history methodology with phenomenological approaches to investigate the performance experience in Shakespeare's dramatic works.

Explores how social, ideological and institutional contingencies shaped both the production and reception of early modern theatrical spectacle.

Analyses the affective and aesthetic dimensions of language within Shakespeare's texts as they operated in lived performance contexts.

Part of the Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama series, providing scholarly frameworks for understanding performance culture.

Brings together multiple contributors offering diverse critical perspectives on how Shakespeare's plays functioned as both individual and communal cultural events.

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hardcover
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Amazon UK
Release Date
20 May 2008
Listed Since
29 November 2007

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