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Irish Shakespeare performance (faraway, so close!)

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: I use Irish Shakespeare performance as a locus to interrogate how we negotiate and maintain cultural proximities and anxieties about what we term real, authentic Shakespeare in performance. Through archival research, I use Druid Theatre Company's early productions of Shakespeare plays—Much Ado About Nothing (1980–81) and As You Like It (1999)—to show how Irish Shakespeare performance occupies a nebulous position between traditionalism and iconoclasm, as well as between a desire to adhere to and to break a specific mold of performance tradition.

Source: Transformative Works and Cultures

DOI: 10.3983/twc.2024.2585

Author: Emer McHugh

Institution: Queen's University Belfast

Language: English

Topic: Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism

Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4402534589

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