Shakespeare as jukebox musical /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Severn, John R. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Routledge, [2019]
Subjects:	Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Adaptations > History and criticism. Jukebox musicals > History and criticism.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : Shakespeare as jukebox musical
Section 1, Historical forebears. Shakespeare as eighteenth-century ballad opera ; Shakespeare as nineteenth-century musical spectacular and burlesque
Section 2, Reception and structure. Song placement and the carnivalesque : Barrie Kosky's King Lear and the Troubadour Theater Company ; Layered allusions, genre and medium : the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre's Romeo & Juliet
Section 3, Modes of reception. The Shakespearean jukebox musical as interrogative text : Kenneth Branagh's Love's labour's lost
Section 4, Engaging with Twelfth night's unstable identities. Play on! and its ghosts ; All shook up and the unannounced adaptation
Conclusion.