
Shakespeare for Snowflakes
On Slapstick and Sympathy
Ian Burrows(Author)
Zero Books (Publisher)
Published on 25. September 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-78904-161-3 (ISBN)
Description
Drawing on plays by Shakespeare, Sarah Kane, Sophocles, Samuel Beckett, and others, this book examines the ways in which these dramatists manipulated the actor's body to demand laughter and/or sympathy. Ian Burrows shows how these strategies can be thought about beyond the stage-space: in the classroom, in the media, and in relation to the social construction of 'snowflake culture' as a 21st century phenomenon.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Collective Ink
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
181 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78904-161-3 (9781789041613)
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10/2020
Zero Books
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Person
Ian Burrows is a fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. He previously spent three years working at the University of Bristol. His research has considered the ways in which aspects of dramatic performance have been translated into text by printers and by editors. He is increasingly interested, though, in the pedagogical and cultural ramifications of such textual decisions. Ian is currently working on a monograph for Palgrave Macmillan's Early Modern Cultural Studies series. He lives in Cambridge, UK.