Haunting History Onstage: Shakespeare in the USA and Canada

by Regina Buccola

In 2016, Chicago Shakespeare Theater and the Stratford Festival of Canada mounted marathons through Shakespearean history to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the death of Shakespeare with Tug of War and Breath of Kings. Both productions invited parallels to contemporary political events in their promotion and design, just as the original performances of these works in the Shakespearean era used past events to comment on present realities. Endurathons...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108714846
• ISBN13: 9781108714846
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 75 Pages
• Weight: 0.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.0" x 7.0"