Shakespeare and Modern Theatre - 9780415219846

Taylor & Francis

The book gathers together a particularly strong line-up of contributors from across the literary-performative divide to examine the relationship between Shakespeare, the 'culture industries', modernism and live performance. > The book gathers together a particularly strong line-up of contributors from across the literary-performative divide to examine the relationship between Shakespeare, the 'culture industries', modernism and live performance. > List of contributors, General editor\u2019s preface, Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1 Modernity, modernism and postmodernism in the twentieth-century\u2019s Shakespeare, 2 \u2018To kill a king\u2019: the modern politics of birdicide, 3 The problem of professionalism in twentieth-century stagings of Hamlet, 4 Translation at the intersections of history, 5 Women\u2019s work and the performance of Shakespeare at the Royal Shakespeare Company, 6 Shakespearean performativity, 7 Heresies of style: some paradoxes of Soviet Ukrainian modernis