Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Suiting the Action to the Word
Published on 15. December 2012
304 pages
978-1-60909-070-8 (ISBN)
Description
The Chicago Shakespeare Theater is widely known for vibrant productions that reflect the Bard's genius for intricate storytelling, musicality of language, and depth of feeling for the human condition. Affectionately known to natives of the Windy City as "Chicago Shakes," this vanguard of Chicago's rich theatrical tradition celebrates its silver anniversary with this bracing collection of original essays by world-renowned scholars, directors, actors, and critics.
Chicago Shakespeare Theater unveils the artistic visions and decisions that helped shape this venerable institution and examines the theater's international reputation for staging such remarkable and provocative performances. The volume brings together works by such heralded drama critics as Terry Teachout, Jonathan Abarbanel, and Michael Billington; theater industry giants like Michael Bogdanov, Edward Hall, and Simon Callow; interviews with the Chicago Shakespeare Theater's own Artistic Director Barbara Gaines and Executive Director Criss Henderson; and essays by such noted figures in academe as Clark Hulse, Wendy Wall, and Michael Shapiro.
Chicago Shakespeare Theater unveils the artistic visions and decisions that helped shape this venerable institution and examines the theater's international reputation for staging such remarkable and provocative performances. The volume brings together works by such heralded drama critics as Terry Teachout, Jonathan Abarbanel, and Michael Billington; theater industry giants like Michael Bogdanov, Edward Hall, and Simon Callow; interviews with the Chicago Shakespeare Theater's own Artistic Director Barbara Gaines and Executive Director Criss Henderson; and essays by such noted figures in academe as Clark Hulse, Wendy Wall, and Michael Shapiro.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Ithaca
United States
Publishing group
Cornell University Press
Product notice
Reflowable
ISBN-13
978-1-60909-070-8 (9781609090708)
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Persons
Regina Buccola is associate professor of English at Roosevelt University in Chicago. She is the author of Fairies, Fractious Women, and the Old Faith.
Peter Kanelos is an assistant professor in the department of fine and performing arts at Loyola University Chicago. He is the editor of Thunder at a Playhouse.
Peter Kanelos is an assistant professor in the department of fine and performing arts at Loyola University Chicago. He is the editor of Thunder at a Playhouse.
Content
- Cover
- CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART I
- 1. Chicago First
- 2. Catapulting Shakespeare into the Present The Artistic Vision of Barbara Gaines
- 3. Barbara, Shakespeare, and Me
- 4. The Spatial Rhetoric of Chicago Shakespeare Theater
- PART II
- 5. This One's for the Girls Millennial Ladies in Josie Rourke's Twelfth Night
- 6. Short Shakespeare! and the Corruption of the Young
- 7. Doing Things with Words ... and, Sometimes, Swords
- PART Ill
- 8. Chicago Shakespeare
- 9. Chicago Shakespeare Theater and the Canadians
- 10. The Framing of the Shrew
- 11. Michael Bogdanov An International Director's The Winter's Tale at Chicago Shakespeare Theater
- 12. Risky Business Rose Rage at Chicago Shakespeare Theater
- PART IV
- 13. In Defense of Ruffled Feathers
- 14. "Never did young man fancy" Troilus and Cressida and Chicago Shakespeare Theater
- 15. At Home with Shakespeare Merry Wives on Stage
- 16. Two Merchants The Glow of the Roaring Twenties and the Shadow of 9/11
- 17. Gender Blending and Masquerade in As You Like It and Twelfth Night
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
