Shakespeare on the Global Stage
Performance and Festivity in the Olympic Year
Paul Prescott (Redaktør) ; Erin Sullivan (Redaktør)
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. Les mer
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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.
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.
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Utgitt:
2015
Forlag: The Arden Shakespeare
Innbinding: Innbundet
Språk: Engelsk
Sider: 376
ISBN: 9781472520333
Format: 20 x 13 cm
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«Shakespeare on the Global Stage is a timely and insightful collection… it raises crucial questions that will be central to any future attempt to bring Shakespeare, and the arts more generally, to wider audiences nationwide.»
«This is a compelling and thought-provoking volume ... [which] will reach a broad readership.»
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
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
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.
Erin Sullivan is Lecturer and Fellow at The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK.