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Performing Transversally - by Kenneth A Loparo (Hardcover)

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  • Performing Transversally expands on Bryan Reynolds' controversial transversal theory in exciting ways while offering groundbreaking analyses of Shakespeare's plays--Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, Taming of the Shrew, Titus Andronicus, Henry V, The Tempest, and Coriolanus--and textual, filmic, and theatrical adaptations of them.
  • About the Author: BRYAN REYNOLDS is Associate Professor of Drama at the University ofCalifornia at Irvine, USA.
  • 319 Pages
  • Literary Criticism, European

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"Performing Transversally" expands on Bryan Reynolds' controversial transversal theory in exciting ways while offering groundbreaking analyses of Shakespeare's plays--"Hamlet," "Othello," "Macbeth," "Taming of the Shrew," "Titus Andronicus," "Henry V," "The Tempest," and "Coriolanus"--and textual, filmic, and theatrical adaptations of them.



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Performing Transversally expands on Bryan Reynolds' controversial transversal theory in exciting ways while offering groundbreaking analyses of Shakespeare's plays--Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, Taming of the Shrew, Titus Andronicus, Henry V, The Tempest, and Coriolanus--and textual, filmic, and theatrical adaptations of them. With his collaborators, Reynolds challenges traditional readings of Shakespeare, reevaluating the critical methodologies that characterize them, in regard to issues of cultural difference, authorship, representation, agency, and iconography. Reynolds demonstrates the value of his "investigative-expansive mode," outlining a "transversal poetics" that points toward a critical future that is more aware of its subjective interconnectedness with the topics and audiences it seeks to engage than is reflected in most Shakespeare criticism and literary-cultural scholarship.



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"Performing Transversally is an innovative example of collaborative scholarship aimed at opening the classic Shakespearean text to unexpected interpretive contexts and possibilities. Whether exploring the sado-masochistic dynamics of Othello or bringing Shakespeare and Dario Fo into productive dialogue, Reynolds and his collaborators use Shakespeare to explore uncharted emotional and cognitive landscapes.... Performing Transversally offers a highly-caffeinated alternative to conventional criticism." - Jean E. Howard, William E. Ransford Professor of English, Columbia University

"In Performing Transversally, Reynolds takes his collaborators and us on a dazzling, even mind-altering trip through what Reynolds calls 'Shakespace, ' offering us trenchant sociohistorical readings both of Shakespeare's plays and adaptations of them by Dryden, Polanski, Brecht, Césaire, Wilson, Fo, and Taymor. Reynolds powerfully reaffirms the agency of the subject and offers hope for theoretical intervention as a viable form of political activism conceived quite daringly here as the transcendence of all conceptual, emotional, social, and physical limits." - Richard Burt, author of Unspeakable ShaXXXspeares

"Transferring models of collaborative authorship from theatre and performance to academic discourse, Performing Transversally productively sets out to re-imagine a critical terrain for Shakespeare in which text and critic are in constant movement, where dispersals, expansions, variabilities, metamorphoses, reconfigurations, alternatives, and contradictions rule. Offering multivocal, processual accounts of how such conversations and negotiations invite links between fields of discourse, Reynolds and co-performers are master jugglers, keeping multiple texts, objects, ideas and ideologies simultaneously in view." - Barbara Hodgdon, University of Michigan

"In Performing Transversally, Bryan Reynolds and a group of collaborators challenge critical orthodoxy by venturing into 'transversal territory' and into the overlapping realm of 'Shakespace.'. . . Because it insists that 'transversality' is the liberating, responsibility-conferring space where we can begin to understand and empathize with other people and other cultures, and because it insistently characterizes Shakespearean performance as 'transversal, ' the book amounts to an important and marvelously high-spirited contribution to the turn toward ethics in literary and cultural studies." - Paul Yachnin, Tomlinson Professor of Shakespeare Studies, McGill University




About the Author



BRYAN REYNOLDS is Associate Professor of Drama at the University of
California at Irvine, USA. He earned his Ph.D. from Harvard, where he studied Shakespeare under Marjorie Garber and Stephen Greenblatt.

Bryan has recently been named as one of Gary Taylor's '6 most brilliant Renaissance scholars in the world under 40'

Dimensions (Overall): 8.68 Inches (H) x 5.76 Inches (W) x .95 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.09 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 319
Genre: Literary Criticism
Sub-Genre: European
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Theme: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Format: Hardcover
Author: Kenneth A Loparo
Language: English
Street Date: September 29, 2003
TCIN: 1005679015
UPC: 9780312293314
Item Number (DPCI): 247-12-6085
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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