TY  - BOOK
AU  - Steele Brokaw,Katherine
TI  - Shakespeare and Community Performance
T2  - Shakespeare in Practice
SN  - 9783031332678
U1  - 809.03 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - European literature
KW  - Renaissance, 1450-1600
KW  - Drama
KW  - Performing arts
KW  - Theater
KW  - Actors
KW  - Early Modern and Renaissance Literature
KW  - Theatre and Performance Arts
KW  - Global and International Theatre and Performance
KW  - Performers and Practitioners
KW  - Applied Theatre
N1  -  1. Community Shakespeare: Access, Adaptation, Activism -- 2. Public Shakespeare: Public Works (New York City) and Public Acts (UK) -- 3. Identity Shakespeare: L.A. Women's Shakespeare Company and Harlem Shakespeare Festival -- 4. Island Shakespeare: Hamlet in the Faroe Islands -- 5. Ecological Shakespeare: Shakespeare in Yosemite and the EarthShakes Alliance
N2  - This book explores how productions of Shakespearean plays create meaning in specific communities, with special attention to issues of access, adaptation, and activism. Instead of focusing on large professional companies, it analyzes performances put on by community theatres and grassroots companies, and in applied drama projects. It looks at Shakespearean productions created by marginalized populations in Greater London, Harlem, and Los Angeles, a Hamlet staged in the remote Faroe Islands, and eco-theatre made in California's Yosemite National Park. The book investigates why different communities perform Shakespeare, and what challenges, opportunities, and triumphs accompany the processes of theatrical production for both the artists and the communities in which they are embedded.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33267-8
ER  -