Performance Research Volume 10 Issue 3

On Shakespeare

Issue editors: William Sherman & Peter Holland

ISBN: 978-0-415-37376

Emmanuel Levinas once wrote that all of philosophy is a meditation on Shakespeare. Can we ever think, write, or say anything – especially about performance – that is not ‘On Shakespeare’? Discuss. On Shakespeare will explore the ways in which the cultural presence of Shakespeare affects – or, equally importantly, might not affect – the theory and practice of performance. Shakespeare scholars will consider the ways in which we preserve and present Shakespearean performance, considering the practices of editors and the possibilities of the printed page as well as digital media. Contributors will also explore other artists’ relationships to Shakespeare – e.g., in the films and installations of Peter Greenaway, the jazz interpretations of Duke Ellington, or the modernist poetics of Louis Zukofsky. On Shakespeare will offer new approaches to the relationship between Shakespeare and performance, pursuing modes of writing and lines of enquiry that complement, extend, or speak back to mainstream Shakespeare scholarship.