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Shakespeare and the Royal Actor Performing Monarchy, 1760-1952

Barnden, Sally
Innbundet / 2024 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780198894971
Publisert
2024
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
562 gr
Høyde
240 mm
Bredde
160 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
272

Forfatter
Barnden, Sally

Biographical note

Sally Barnden has taught Shakespeare and early modern literature at King's College London, the University of Oxford, Queen Mary University, Brunel, and Central School of Speech and Drama. Her first book, Still Shakespeare and the Photography of Performance, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2020, and her scholarship has been published in Shakespeare Bulletin, Theatre Journal, and in the collection Early Modern Criticism in a Time of Crisis. As part of the AHRC-funded project 'Shakespeare in the Royal Collection,' she co-created a database and virtual exhibition, which are available online at www.sharc.kcl.ac.uk.

Shakespeare and the Royal Actor Performing Monarchy, 1760-1952

Barnden, Sally
Innbundet / 2024 / Engelsk
Barnden, Sally
Innbundet / 2024 / Engelsk
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With exemplary insight and clarity, Sally Barnden tells the compelling story of the mutually-sustaining--and sometimes mutually-complicating--relationship between the British royal family and Shakespeare. Drawing on a wonderfully wide-ranging archive of images and texts, Barnden shows us how the British royals have repeatedly looked to Shakespeare as means of negotiating their own history--a process that has, in turn, changed the versions of Shakespeare we've come to see and read.

David Francis Taylor, Fellow and Tutor, St Hugh's College, University of Oxford

I really enjoyed reading this book. It's lively, engaging, and full of good gossip.

Matthew H. Wikander, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, University of Toledo

Sally Barnden's excellent book Shakespeare and the Royal Actor is written in a spirit of amused incredulity, demonstrating how important Shakespeare's role has been in establishing an archaic, backward-looking world.

Andrew Hadfield, TLS

Shakespeare and the Royal Actor argues that members of the royal family have identified with Shakespearean figures at various times in modern history to assert the continuity, legitimacy, and national identity of the royal line. It provides an account of the relationship between the Shakespearean afterlife and the royal family through the lens of a broadly conceived theatre history suggesting that these two hegemonic institutions had a mutually sustaining relationship from the accession of George III in 1760 to that of Elizabeth II in 1952. Identifications with Shakespearean figures have been deployed to assert the Englishness of a dynasty with strong familial links to Germany and to cultivate a sense of continuity from the more autocratic Plantagenet, Tudor, and Stuart monarchs informing Shakespeare's drama to the increasingly ceremonial monarchs of the modern period. The book is driven by new archival research in the Royal Collection and Royal Archives. It reads these archives critically, asking how different forms of royal and Shakespearean performance are remembered in the material holdings of royal institutions.
Les mer
Explores the extent to which members of the royal family have appropriated the creative legacy of Shakespeare, from the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, in order to shore up royal and national ideologies and to assert the legitimacy of the monarchy.
Les mer
Introduction 1: Player Queens 2: Libertines 3: Warlike Effigies 4: Domestic Virtues 5: Royal Bodies Epilogue
Sally Barnden has taught Shakespeare and early modern literature at King's College London, the University of Oxford, Queen Mary University, Brunel, and Central School of Speech and Drama. Her first book, Still Shakespeare and the Photography of Performance, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2020, and her scholarship has been published in Shakespeare Bulletin, Theatre Journal, and in the collection Early Modern Criticism in a Time of Crisis. As part of the AHRC-funded project 'Shakespeare in the Royal Collection,' she co-created a database and virtual exhibition, which are available online at www.sharc.kcl.ac.uk.
Les mer
Examines the developing relationship between the British monarchy and Shakespeare over an extended period of time and shows the evolution of both institutions Explores Shakespearean appropriations in a wide range of media, including the visual arts, photography, and satire as well as theatrical performance and film Informed by access to the Royal Collection and Royal Archives
Les mer

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With exemplary insight and clarity, Sally Barnden tells the compelling story of the mutually-sustaining--and sometimes mutually-complicating--relationship between the British royal family and Shakespeare. Drawing on a wonderfully wide-ranging archive of images and texts, Barnden shows us how the British royals have repeatedly looked to Shakespeare as means of negotiating their own history--a process that has, in turn, changed the versions of Shakespeare we've come to see and read.

David Francis Taylor, Fellow and Tutor, St Hugh's College, University of Oxford

I really enjoyed reading this book. It's lively, engaging, and full of good gossip.

Matthew H. Wikander, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, University of Toledo

Sally Barnden's excellent book Shakespeare and the Royal Actor is written in a spirit of amused incredulity, demonstrating how important Shakespeare's role has been in establishing an archaic, backward-looking world.

Andrew Hadfield, TLS

Shakespeare and the Royal Actor argues that members of the royal family have identified with Shakespearean figures at various times in modern history to assert the continuity, legitimacy, and national identity of the royal line. It provides an account of the relationship between the Shakespearean afterlife and the royal family through the lens of a broadly conceived theatre history suggesting that these two hegemonic institutions had a mutually sustaining relationship from the accession of George III in 1760 to that of Elizabeth II in 1952. Identifications with Shakespearean figures have been deployed to assert the Englishness of a dynasty with strong familial links to Germany and to cultivate a sense of continuity from the more autocratic Plantagenet, Tudor, and Stuart monarchs informing Shakespeare's drama to the increasingly ceremonial monarchs of the modern period. The book is driven by new archival research in the Royal Collection and Royal Archives. It reads these archives critically, asking how different forms of royal and Shakespearean performance are remembered in the material holdings of royal institutions.
Les mer
Explores the extent to which members of the royal family have appropriated the creative legacy of Shakespeare, from the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, in order to shore up royal and national ideologies and to assert the legitimacy of the monarchy.
Les mer
Introduction 1: Player Queens 2: Libertines 3: Warlike Effigies 4: Domestic Virtues 5: Royal Bodies Epilogue
Sally Barnden has taught Shakespeare and early modern literature at King's College London, the University of Oxford, Queen Mary University, Brunel, and Central School of Speech and Drama. Her first book, Still Shakespeare and the Photography of Performance, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2020, and her scholarship has been published in Shakespeare Bulletin, Theatre Journal, and in the collection Early Modern Criticism in a Time of Crisis. As part of the AHRC-funded project 'Shakespeare in the Royal Collection,' she co-created a database and virtual exhibition, which are available online at www.sharc.kcl.ac.uk.
Les mer
Examines the developing relationship between the British monarchy and Shakespeare over an extended period of time and shows the evolution of both institutions Explores Shakespearean appropriations in a wide range of media, including the visual arts, photography, and satire as well as theatrical performance and film Informed by access to the Royal Collection and Royal Archives
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780198894971
Publisert
2024
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
562 gr
Høyde
240 mm
Bredde
160 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
272

Forfatter
Barnden, Sally

Biographical note

Sally Barnden has taught Shakespeare and early modern literature at King's College London, the University of Oxford, Queen Mary University, Brunel, and Central School of Speech and Drama. Her first book, Still Shakespeare and the Photography of Performance, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2020, and her scholarship has been published in Shakespeare Bulletin, Theatre Journal, and in the collection Early Modern Criticism in a Time of Crisis. As part of the AHRC-funded project 'Shakespeare in the Royal Collection,' she co-created a database and virtual exhibition, which are available online at www.sharc.kcl.ac.uk.

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