{"product_id":"shakespeare-play-contemporary-readings-in-playing-playmaking-and-performance-9781350304437","title":"Shakespeare \/ Play: Contemporary Readings in Playing, Playmaking and Performance","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat 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? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eShakespeare \/ Play \u003c\/i\u003ebrings together established and emerging scholars to respond to these questions, using approaches spanning theatre and dance history, cultural history, critical race studies, performance studies, disability studies, archaeology, affect studies, music history, material history and literary and dramaturgical analysis. Ranging across Shakespeare's dramatic oeuvre as well as early modern lost plays, dance notation, conduct books, jest books and contemporary theatre and film, it includes consideration of \u003ci\u003eMeasure for Measure\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Midsummer Night's Dream\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMacbeth\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTitus Andronicus\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMerchant of Venice\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTwelfth Night\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRomeo and Juliet\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOthello\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e King Lear \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Merry Wives of Windsor\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe subject of this volume is reflected in its structure: \u003ci\u003eShakespeare \/ Play\u003c\/i\u003e features substantial new essays across 5 'acts', interwoven with 7 shorter, playful pieces (a 'prologue', 4 'act breaks', a 'jig' and a 'curtain call'), to offer new directions for research on Shakespearean playing, playmaking and performance. In so doing, this volume interrogates the conceptions of playing of\/in Shakespeare that shape how we perform, read, teach and analyze Shakespeare today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmma Whipday\u003c\/b\u003e is Senior Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at Newcastle University, UK. Her first book, \u003ci\u003eShakespeare's Domestic Tragedies: Violence in the Early Modern Home\u003c\/i\u003e (2019), is co-winner of the Shakespeare's Globe Book Award 2020. Other publications include \u003ci\u003eTeaching Shakespeare and His Sisters: An Embodied Approach \u003c\/i\u003e(2023) and \u003ci\u003ePlaying and Playgoing in Early Modern England: Actor, Audience and Performance\u003c\/i\u003e (co-edited with Simon Smith, 2022). She is also a playwright; her play \u003ci\u003eShakespeare's Sister \u003c\/i\u003e(2016) won the Theatre Royal Haymarket's Masterclass 'Pitch Your Play' award, and her play \u003ci\u003eThe Defamation of Cicely Lee\u003c\/i\u003e won the American Shakespeare Center's 2019 'Shakespeare's New Contemporaries' prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Arden Shakespeare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50911439225106,"sku":"9781350304437","price":208.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4d953f29-1285-4a30-a482-d61e799c1cd2.jpg?v=1738741805","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/shakespeare-play-contemporary-readings-in-playing-playmaking-and-performance-9781350304437","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}