edited by Michael Bristol and Kathleen McLuskie, with Christopher Holmes.
New York :
Routledge,
2001.
xii, 202 pages ;
23 cm.
Accents on Shakespeare
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-196) and index.
Modernity, modernism and postmodernism in the twentieth-century's Shakespeare / Hugh Grady -- 'To kill a king' : the modern politics of bardicide / Paul Yachnin -- The problem of professionalism in twentieth-century stagings of Hamlet / Catherine Graham -- Translation at the intersections of history / Jean-Michel Déprats -- Women's work and the performance of Shakespeare at the Royal Shakespeare Company / Sarah Werner -- Shakespearean performativity / W.B. Worthen -- Heresies of style : some paradoxes of Soviet Ukrainian modernism / Irena R. Makaryk -- 'Lice in fur' : the aesthetics of cheek and Shakespearean production strategy / Maarten van Dijk.
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At the start of the 21st century, film, video and live performance have overtaken the book as the main ways in which people are introduced to Shakespeare. Is there anymore a reason for people to read the plays?