Shakespeare and Community Performance

Steele Brokaw, Katherine

Shakespeare and Community Performance

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商品描述

This book explores how productions of Shakespearean plays create meaning in specific communities, with special attention to issues of access, adaptation, and activism. Instead of focusing on large professional companies, it analyzes performances put on by community theatres and grassroots companies, and in applied drama projects. It looks at Shakespearean productions created by marginalized populations in Greater London, Harlem, and Los Angeles, a Hamlet staged in the remote Faroe Islands, and eco-theatre made in California's Yosemite National Park. The book investigates why different communities perform Shakespeare, and what challenges, opportunities, and triumphs accompany the processes of theatrical production for both the artists and the communities in which they are embedded.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

本書探討莎士比亞戲劇的製作如何在特定社群中創造意義，特別關注於可及性、改編和行動主義等議題。它並不專注於大型專業劇團，而是分析社區劇院和草根公司的演出，以及應用戲劇項目。書中考察了在大倫敦、哈林和洛杉磯的邊緣社群創作的莎士比亞作品、一部在遙遠的法羅群島上演出的《哈姆雷特》，以及在加州優勝美地國家公園製作的生態劇。該書調查了不同社群為何演出莎士比亞作品，以及在戲劇製作過程中，藝術家和他們所嵌入的社群所面臨的挑戰、機會和勝利。

作者簡介

Katherine Steele Brokaw is associate professor of English and Theatre at University of California Merced, USA, co-founding artistic director of Shakespeare in Yosemite, and co-founder of the EarthShakes Alliance. She is the author of Staging Harmony: Music and Religious Change in Late Medieval and Early English Drama (2016) and has published articles and reviews in several journals and essay collections. With Jay Zysk she co-edited Sacred and Secular Transactions in the Age of Shakespeare (2019), and she edited Macbeth for the Arden Performance Editions series (2019).

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Katherine Steele Brokaw 是美國加州大學默塞德分校英語與戲劇的副教授，也是優勝美地莎士比亞藝術節的共同創辦藝術總監，以及 EarthShakes Alliance 的共同創辦人。她是《Staging Harmony: Music and Religious Change in Late Medieval and Early English Drama》（2016）的作者，並在多個期刊和文章集上發表過文章和評論。她與 Jay Zysk 共同編輯了《Sacred and Secular Transactions in the Age of Shakespeare》（2019），並為 Arden Performance Editions 系列編輯了《Macbeth》（2019）。

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