Shakespeare / Play: Contemporary Readings in Playing, Playmaking and Performance - Hardcover
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Shakespeare / Play: Contemporary Readings in Playing, Playmaking and Performance
What is (a) play? How do Shakespeare's plays engage with and represent early modern modes of play - from jests and games to music, spectacle, movement, animal-baiting and dance? How have we played with Shakespeare in the centuries since? And how does the structure of the plays experienced in the early modern playhouse shape our understanding of Shakespeare plays today?
Shakespeare / Play brings...Emma Whipday is Senior Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at Newcastle University, UK. Her first book, Shakespeare's Domestic Tragedies: Violence in the Early Modern Home (2019), is co-winner of the Shakespeare's Globe Book Award 2020. Other publications include Teaching Shakespeare and His Sisters: An Embodied Approach (2023) and Playing and Playgoing in Early Modern England: Actor, Audience and...
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Emma Whipday (Editor), Lucy Munro (Editor), Sonia Massai (Editor)
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