Essential Shakespeare by Bickley, Pamela -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Interpreting Shakespeare Locating Shakespeare Reading Shakespeare Performing Shakespeare

1 A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Transformations, illusions, festivity

Bakhtin and the carnivalesque Shakespeare’s sources: Ovid A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Rhyme, rhythm and metre Peter Brook’s Dream (1970)

2 Much Ado About Nothing: Exploring language and gender

Linguistics and the literary text Female talk and marital suitability Analysing the play’s opening scene: Two different approaches Shakespeare Retold (2005)

3 Twelfth Night: Disguises and desires

Cross-dressing and Queer theory Twelfth Night and romantic comedy: Defining genre Song in Twelfth Night Renaissance Theatre Company production for stage and screen (1987/8)

4 Measure for Measure (and its problems …)

5 Hamlet: A play of ‘perpetual modernity’

The rise of the Shakespeare film Revenge and the early modern audience ‘Who’s there?’ Questions in Hamlet Ghosts on screen: Almereyda’s Hamlet (2000)

6 Othello: Sex, race and suggestibility

Presentism: ‘The new kid on the Shakespeare block’ Sexuality in Othello Othello and the power of language Orson Welles’s Othello (1952)

7 King Lear: ‘That things might change, or cease’

Marxist readings Early modern ideas of authority and duty Quarto and Folio texts Kozintsev’s King Lear (1970)

8 Macbeth: Kingship and witchcraft

Macbeth and masculinities Macbeth the ‘Jamesian’ play Imagery in Macbeth Polanski’s Macbeth (1971)

9 Antony and Cleopatra: The legendary on stage

East meets West: A postcolonial view Acting the woman’s part: Shakespeare’s boy players The Shakespearean soliloquy The all-male Antony and Cleopatra at Shakespeare’s Globe (1999)

10 King Richard II: The performance of majesty

Deconstruction and Shakespeare Clothes and the early modern theatre Shakespeare’s all-verse drama ‘Girlie’ Shakespeare: Deborah Warner’s Richard II at the Cottesloe (1995)

11 Richard III: History’s monster or charismatic villain?

New historicism History and historiography: Early modern approaches Richard’s dramatic dialogue Richard III as the fascist 1930s: Loncraine’s film (1995)

12 Cymbeline: ‘An experimental romance’?

British Studies and the ‘Welsh play’ The advent of the Blackfriars theatre Cymbeline’s dramatic structure ‘Not an evening for purists’: Kneehigh Theatre’s Cymbeline (2006/7)

13 The Winter’s Tale: Tyranny, trials, time

Feminism/s Madness and melancholy Time and place BBC Shakespeare and Jane Howell’s The Winter’s Tale (1981)

14 The Tempest: Where ‘Thought is free’

Genre theory The masque Tone Shakespeare and opera: Thomas Adès’s The Tempest (2004)

Glossary of critical terms used in this book Abbreviations References Index Copyright