Shakespeare broadcasts and the question of value /
This Element investigates the framing texts of Shakespeare's works in live theatre broadcasts produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Despite growing engagement from scholars of digital Shakespeares with the phenomenon of broadcast theater and the aesthetics of filmed productions, the parate...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2025].
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| Series: | Cambridge elements. Elements in Shakespeare and text.
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| Summary: | This Element investigates the framing texts of Shakespeare's works in live theatre broadcasts produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Despite growing engagement from scholars of digital Shakespeares with the phenomenon of broadcast theater and the aesthetics of filmed productions, the paratexts which accompany the live streams live or prerecorded features, including interviews and short films have largely been ignored. The Element considers how RSC live broadcasts of rarely performed, often critically maligned works are mediated for contemporary audiences, focusing on The Two Gentlemen of Verona (2014), Titus Andronicus (2017), and The Merry Wives of Windsor (2018). It questions the role of the theatre institution as a powerful broker in the (re)negotiation of hierarchies of value within Shakespeare's canon. Individual sections also trace the longer genealogies of paratextual value-narratives in print, proposing that broadcast paratexts be understood as participating in a broader history of Shakespearean paratexts in print and performance. |
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| Physical Description: | 94 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [86]-94). |
| ISBN: | 9781009418003 1009418009 |