Writing Performative Shakespeares

This innovative study offers a genuinely groundbreaking approach to Shakespeare in performance. Six chapters work like case studies each highly creative in terms of visual form and structure - including puzzles comics and pinboards - inviting the reader into playful engagement with the performative dimensions of Shakespearean production. The case studies include discussion of training and rehearsal processes; the materiality of the performance event and its various embodiments; the intertextual citations through which productions make meaning; and in response to all of this the multiplicity and variety of audience perspectives and interpretations. Conkie''s production choices range from original practices to politicised adaptations small-scale workshops to multimedia spectacles offering inventive analyses of what Shakespeare might mean or can be made to mean at particular times and in specific places at the start of the twenty-first century.