Shakespeare on the Global Stage (eBook, PDF)

Performance and Festivity in the Olympic Year
Redaktion: Prescott, Paul; Sullivan, Erin

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Long held as Britain's 'national poet', Shakespeare's role in the 2012 London Cultural Olympiad confirmed his status as a global icon in the modern world. From his prominent positioning in the Olympic and Paralympic ceremonies, to his major presence in the cultural programme surrounding the Games, including the Royal Shakespeare Company's World Shakespeare Festival and the Globe's Globe to Globe Festival, Shakespeare played a major role in the way the UK presented itself to its citizens and to the world.

This collection explores the cultural forces at play in the construction, use and reception of Shakespeare during the 2012 Olympic Moment, considering what his presence says about culture, politics and identity in twenty-first century British and global life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472520357
• Artikelnr.: 41834077

Autorenporträt

Paul Prescott is Reader in English at the University of Warwick, UK. Erin Sullivan is Lecturer and Fellow at The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures List of contributors Preface Paul Prescott and Erin
Sullivan 1: Shakespeare and the Dream of Olympism Paul Prescott 2: Two
Poems from the Olympic Year Kapka Kassabova 3: Performing Shakespeare in
the Olympic Year: Interviews with Three Practitioners Frank Cottrell Boyce
Tom Bird Tracy Irish 4: States of the Nations: Henry VI, the London
Olympics and the Spectacular City Stuart Hampton-Reeves 5: Shakespeare in
the North: Regionalism, Culture and Power Adam Hansen and Monika
Smialkowska 6: Shakespeare, Spectatorship and the 'Olympic Spirit' Stephen
Purcell 7: Expert Spectatorship and Intra-Audience Relationships at Globe
to Globe 2012 Rose Elfman 8: 'Mind the gap': Globalism, Postcolonialism and
Making up Africa in the Cultural Olympiad Colette Gordon 9: A Tale of Two
Londons: Locating Shakespeare and Dickens in 2012 Peter Kirwan and
Charlotte Mathieson 10: 1948/2012: Building Nations Tony Howard 11: Olympic
Shakespeare and the Idea of Legacy: Culture, Capital and the Global Future
Erin Sullivan Afterword Kathleen McLuskie Index