Shakespearean Futures - 9781108749558

Shakespearean FuturesCasting the Bodies of Tomorrow on Shakespeare's Stages Today\nAuthor(s): Amy Cook\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108749558, 978-1108749558\nSynopsis\nCasting is the process by which directors assign parts to actors, creating the idea of the character for the audience. Casting is how we rehearse change, as we come to see an expanded repertoire of the kinds of bodies that are selected to play the lead, the hero, and the villain. This Element focuses on the casting in productions of Shakespeare from [tel] to demonstrate how casting functions affectively and cognitively to reimagine who can be what. The central argument is that directors are using casting as the central mode of meaning-making in productions of Shakespeare.