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Chicago Shakespeare Theater : Suiting the Action to the Word / Regina Buccola.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (304 p.) : 32 halftonesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501756863
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 822.33 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I -- 1. Chicago First -- 2. Catapulting Shakespeare into the Present -- 3. Barbara, Shakespeare, and Me -- 4. The Spatial Rhetoric of Chicago Shakespeare Theater -- PART II -- 5. This One's for the Girls -- 6. Short Shakespeare! and the Corruption of the Young -- 7. Doing Things with Words ... and, Sometimes, Swords -- PART III -- 8. Chicago Shakespeare -- 9. Chicago Shakespeare Theater and the Canadians -- 10. The Framing of the Shrew -- 11. Michael Bogdanov -- 12. Risky Business -- PART IV -- 13. In Defense of Ruffled Feathers -- 14. "Never did young man fancy" -- 15. At Home with Shakespeare -- 16. Two Merchants -- 17. Gender Blending and Masquerade in As You Like It and Twelfth Night -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
Summary: The Chicago Shakespeare Theater is widely known for vibrant productions that reflect the Bard's genius for intricate storytelling, musicality of language, and depth of feeling for the human condition. Affectionately known to natives of the Windy City as "Chicago Shakes," this vanguard of Chicago's rich theatrical tradition celebrates its silver anniversary with this bracing collection of original essays by world-renowned scholars, directors, actors, and critics.Chicago Shakespeare Theater unveils the artistic visions and decisions that helped shape this venerable institution and examines the theater's international reputation for staging such remarkable and provocative performances. The volume brings together works by such heralded drama critics as Terry Teachout, Jonathan Abarbanel, and Michael Billington; theater industry giants like Michael Bogdanov, Edward Hall, and Simon Callow; interviews with the Chicago Shakespeare Theater's own Artistic Director Barbara Gaines and Executive Director Criss Henderson; and essays by such noted figures in academe as Clark Hulse, Wendy Wall, and Michael Shapiro.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I -- 1. Chicago First -- 2. Catapulting Shakespeare into the Present -- 3. Barbara, Shakespeare, and Me -- 4. The Spatial Rhetoric of Chicago Shakespeare Theater -- PART II -- 5. This One's for the Girls -- 6. Short Shakespeare! and the Corruption of the Young -- 7. Doing Things with Words ... and, Sometimes, Swords -- PART III -- 8. Chicago Shakespeare -- 9. Chicago Shakespeare Theater and the Canadians -- 10. The Framing of the Shrew -- 11. Michael Bogdanov -- 12. Risky Business -- PART IV -- 13. In Defense of Ruffled Feathers -- 14. "Never did young man fancy" -- 15. At Home with Shakespeare -- 16. Two Merchants -- 17. Gender Blending and Masquerade in As You Like It and Twelfth Night -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

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The Chicago Shakespeare Theater is widely known for vibrant productions that reflect the Bard's genius for intricate storytelling, musicality of language, and depth of feeling for the human condition. Affectionately known to natives of the Windy City as "Chicago Shakes," this vanguard of Chicago's rich theatrical tradition celebrates its silver anniversary with this bracing collection of original essays by world-renowned scholars, directors, actors, and critics.Chicago Shakespeare Theater unveils the artistic visions and decisions that helped shape this venerable institution and examines the theater's international reputation for staging such remarkable and provocative performances. The volume brings together works by such heralded drama critics as Terry Teachout, Jonathan Abarbanel, and Michael Billington; theater industry giants like Michael Bogdanov, Edward Hall, and Simon Callow; interviews with the Chicago Shakespeare Theater's own Artistic Director Barbara Gaines and Executive Director Criss Henderson; and essays by such noted figures in academe as Clark Hulse, Wendy Wall, and Michael Shapiro.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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