Book contents
- Shakespeare Survey 76
- Shakespeare Survey
- Shakespeare Survey
- Copyright page
- Editor’s Note
- Contributors
- Contents
- Illustrations
- All Early Modern Drama Is Virtual to Us
- RSC Live from Stratford-upon-Avon: Ten Things I Think I Know, or, Of Course We’re Making a Movie
- Digital Ariel: An Interview with Mark Quartley
- Staging Digital Co-Presence: Punchdrunk’s Hybrid Sleep No More (2012) And Pandemic-Informed Pedagogies
- ‘Very Tragical Mirth’: Performing A Midsummer Night’s Dream on Screen(s) during Lockdown
- ‘Uneasy Lies the Head’: Michael Almereyda’s Halloween Cymbeline
- When Is King Lear Not King Lear?
- Sim-Ulating Shakespeare: From Stage to Computer Screen
- Metre in the Middle Distance
- ‘What’s in a “Quire”?’ Vicissitudes of the Virtual in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and Romeo and Juliet
- ‘And Which the Jew?’: Representations Of Shylock in Meiji Japan (1868–1912)
- Hamlet, Translation and the Linguistic Conditions of Thought
- The Pietas Of Dogberry
- Taylor Mac’s Gary and Queer Failure in Titus Andronicus
- ‘I Would Cure You’: Self-Help Advice on Love in Sidney and Shakespeare
- Shakespeare in Arden: Pragmatic Markers and Parallels
- Sycorax’s Hoop
- Shakespeare Performances in England, 2022
- Peter Kirwan, Productions Outside London
- Professional Shakespeare Productions in the British Isles, January–December 2021
- The Year’s Contribution to Shakespeare Studies
- 1. Critical Studies
- 2. Performance
- 3. Editions and Textual Studies
- Abstracts of Articles in Shakespeare Survey 76
- Index
- References
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from The Year’s Contribution to Shakespeare Studies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 August 2023
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Book contents
- Shakespeare Survey 76
- Shakespeare Survey
- Shakespeare Survey
- Copyright page
- Editor’s Note
- Contributors
- Contents
- Illustrations
- All Early Modern Drama Is Virtual to Us
- RSC Live from Stratford-upon-Avon: Ten Things I Think I Know, or, Of Course We’re Making a Movie
- Digital Ariel: An Interview with Mark Quartley
- Staging Digital Co-Presence: Punchdrunk’s Hybrid Sleep No More (2012) And Pandemic-Informed Pedagogies
- ‘Very Tragical Mirth’: Performing A Midsummer Night’s Dream on Screen(s) during Lockdown
- ‘Uneasy Lies the Head’: Michael Almereyda’s Halloween Cymbeline
- When Is King Lear Not King Lear?
- Sim-Ulating Shakespeare: From Stage to Computer Screen
- Metre in the Middle Distance
- ‘What’s in a “Quire”?’ Vicissitudes of the Virtual in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and Romeo and Juliet
- ‘And Which the Jew?’: Representations Of Shylock in Meiji Japan (1868–1912)
- Hamlet, Translation and the Linguistic Conditions of Thought
- The Pietas Of Dogberry
- Taylor Mac’s Gary and Queer Failure in Titus Andronicus
- ‘I Would Cure You’: Self-Help Advice on Love in Sidney and Shakespeare
- Shakespeare in Arden: Pragmatic Markers and Parallels
- Sycorax’s Hoop
- Shakespeare Performances in England, 2022
- Peter Kirwan, Productions Outside London
- Professional Shakespeare Productions in the British Isles, January–December 2021
- The Year’s Contribution to Shakespeare Studies
- 1. Critical Studies
- 2. Performance
- 3. Editions and Textual Studies
- Abstracts of Articles in Shakespeare Survey 76
- Index
- References
Summary
The COVID-19 pandemic represents innumerable, incalculable loss. Surviving it is a privilege, but we are far from finished processing the experiences of the past three years, particularly as the virus continues to mutate and shape our lives. The idea of re-visiting the earliest lockdowns – those freeze-frames of isolation and uncertainty – may not be a pleasant thought. But Lockdown Shakespeare: New Evolutions in Performance and Adaptation, is a remarkably cathartic read. Editors Gemma Kate Allred, Benjamin Broadribb and Erin Sullivan have curated a collection of essays, reflections and testimonies to record how Shakespearians spent the first fourteen months of the pandemic imagining, creating and reaching out to each other on a global scale. While acknowledging the toll that COVID-19 took on the world, the book refutes the Royal Shakespeare Company’s assertion that the pandemic shut down all forms of theatre.
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- Shakespeare Survey 76Digital and Virtual Shakespeare, pp. 239 - 250Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023
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