Shakespeare and ballet : gender, sexuality, race and politics on stage /
"This is the first book to offer a comprehensive study of Shakespearean ballets and their unique interpretive possibilities. Organised around adaptations of key plays, each chapter offers close study of the contrasting interpretations and styles of a number of choreographers and illuminates iss...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
The Arden Shakespeare,
2026.
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| Series: | Shakespeare and adaptation.
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| Summary: | "This is the first book to offer a comprehensive study of Shakespearean ballets and their unique interpretive possibilities. Organised around adaptations of key plays, each chapter offers close study of the contrasting interpretations and styles of a number of choreographers and illuminates issues of gender, sexuality, race and politics. With consideration of interpretations from the 1940s to the present by British, American and European choreographers, it includes ballets of The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, the Sonnets, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, The Winter's Tale and The Tempest"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xix, 264 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781350302532 1350302538 9781350302570 1350302570 |