Full Description
An international group of scholars reappraise The Winter's Tale through a series of research essays covering performance history, critical history, and new interpretations.
Navigating the play's fluctuating genre conventions, onstage spectacle and leaps across time, scholars consider how eco-materiality, radical hospitality, childhood, gender, and critical race studies shape contemporary understandings and staging of a play that defies easy definition.
By charting these changing interpretive trends, readers are introduced to a rich body of scholarship which shows how the play can be used to confront the experiences of those marginalized by race, age, gender, and nationality, to place fresh attention on the economic and material structures that define the dramatic plot of the play. As The Winter's Tale's depictions of patriarchal violence, vulnerability, economic disparity, border crossings and exploitation continue to draw attention, this guide serves as an invaluable resource for scholars, students and audiences alike. Complete with pedagogical tools including resources and strategies for approaching the play in the classroom, this Critical Reader is an essential collection of scholarship on one of Shakespeare's most audacious experiments.
Contents
Timeline, Todd Andrew Borlik (University of Huddersfield, UK) and Peter Kirwan (Mary Baldwin University, USA)
Introduction, Peter Kirwan (Mary Baldwin University, USA)
1. The Critical Backstory: Critical Approaches, 1611-2000, Mario DiGangi (Lehman College and City University of New York Graduate Center, USA)
2. The Performance History: The Winter's Tale in Performance, Yu Jin Ko (Wellesley College, USA)
3. The State of the Art: Critical Approaches, 2000-2022, Christina Luckyj (Dalhousie University, Canada)
4. New Directions: 'Recycled Actors: Eco-materiality and Doubling in The Winter's Tale', Mark Kaethler (Medicine Hat College, Canada)
5. New Directions: 'Radical Hospitality and The Winter's Tale', Ruben Espinosa (Arizona State University, USA)
6. New Directions: '"Things newborn": Regendering Childhood in The Winter's Tale', Gemma Miller (King's College London, UK)
7. New Directions: 'Was Leontes Black? Todd Andrew Borlik (University of Huddersfield, UK)
8. Pedagogy: 'Teaching and Learning Resources', Yan Brailowsky (Paris University Nanterre, France)
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