Shakespeare’s roots in applied and participatory performance practices have been recently explored within a wide variety of educational, theatrical and community settings. Shakespeare and Social Engagement explores these settings, as well as audiences who have largely been excluded from existing accounts of Shakespeare’s performance history. The contributions in this collected volume explore the complicated and vibrant encounters between a canonical cultural force and work that frequently characterizes itself as inclusive and egalitarian.
Table of Content
List of Figures
Introduction
Robert Shaughnessy
Chapter 1. Thither and Back Again: An Exploration of A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Sue Emmy Jennings
Chapter 2. Shakespeare in Yosemite: Applied Shakespeare in a National Park
Katherine Steele Brokaw and Paul Prescott
Chapter 3. Shakespeare’s Fools: A Piece in a Peacebuilding Mosaic
Maja Milatovic-Ovadia
Chapter 4. Getting it on its Feet: Exploring The Politics and Processes of Shakespeare Outside the Traditional Classroom
Karl Falconer
Chapter 5. ‘Branches of Learning’: Collaborative Cognitive and Affective Learning Between Shakespearean Students trained in Schools, Universities, and Carceral Institutions
Sheila T. Cavanagh and Steve Rowland
Chapter 6. Producing Space for Shakespeare
Rowan Mackenzie
Chapter 7. Mind the Gap: Working Across Lines of Difference in Carceral Shakespeare
Frannie Shepherd-Bates and Kate Powers
Chapter 8. Signing Shakespeare
Tracy Irish and Abigail Rokison-Woodall
Chapter 9. A World Elsewhere: Documentary Representations of Social Shakespeare
Susanne Greenhalgh
Afterword
Rowan Mackenzie
Index
About the author
Robert Shaughnessy is Professor of Theatre and Director of Research at Guildford School of Acting, University of Surrey. His most recent books are Shakespeare in the Theatre: The National Theatre 1963-1975 (Bloomsbury, 2018) and About Shakespeare: Bodies, Spaces and Texts (Cambridge University Press, 2020).
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