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  • Critical University Studies and Performance

    Critical University Studies and Performance explores how we contend with issues of power, race, class, and gender in higher education, specifically as they relate to the complexities of theater and performance studies programs. In what ways might the fields of theater, performance, and dance studies, as they operate in institutions of higher education, support hegemonic logics as well as model ... Read more

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  • Yassified Shakespeare

    Gender Performance and Critical ShaxDrag

    This book explores the under-theorized intersections between Shakespeare and drag in contemporary American culture and performances of and around what it terms “ShaxDrag.”From the root word “yass” comes the verb “to yassify”. On social media, to “yassify” something is to “glamify” it - generally by running it through multiple digital filters and making it queerer in the process. Yassification ... Read more

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  • Theatre History Studies 2024, Vol 43

    Series series Theatre History Studies
    The official journal of the Mid-America Theatre ConferenceWhere past and performance converge—scholarship that moves the stage forward.Theatre History Studies (THS) is a peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-America Theatre Conference (MATC), a regional body devoted to theatre scholarship and practice. The conference encompasses the ... Read more

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  • Theatres of Value

    Buying and Selling Shakespeare in Nineteenth-Century New York City

    Explores the value of Shakespeare for theatrical businesspeople and audiences in nineteenth-century New York City.Theatres of Value explores the idea that buying and selling are performative acts and offers a paradigm for deeper study of these acts-"the dramaturgy of value." Modeling this multifaceted approach, the book explores six case studies to show how and why Shakespeare had value for ... Read more

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  • Revenge is Mad Hard

    Fat Ham and the Question of Cultural Reclamation

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    In April of 2021, a small theatre in Philadelphia took a big risk: The Wilma premiered a new play called Fat Ham by a then-almost-unknown playwright, James Ijames. Fat Ham reconfigures the story of Hamlet through the lens of a family barbeque in the American South. In Ijames’ play, Shakespeare’s protagonist becomes a fat, queer, Black man named Juicy. Juicy’s mother has just married his uncle in ... Read more

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  • Early Modern Liveness

    Mediating Presence in Text, Stage and Screen

    What does it mean for early modern theatre to be 'live'? How have audiences over time experienced a sense of 'liveness'? This collection extends discussions of liveness to works from the 16th and 17th centuries, both in their initial incarnations and contemporary adaptations. Drawing on theatre and performance studies, as well as media theory, this volume uses the concept of liveness to consider ... Read more

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  • Shakespeare’s Audiences

    Edited by Matteo Pangallo, Peter Kirwan ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Shakespeare
    Shakespeare wrote for a theater in which the audience was understood to be, and at times invited to be, active and participatory. How have Shakespeare’s audiences, from the sixteenth century to the present, responded to that invitation? In what ways have consumers across different cultural contexts, periods, and platforms engaged with the performance of Shakespeare’s plays? What are some of the ... Read more

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  • Shakespeare and Adaptation Theory

    Series series Shakespeare and Theory
    Shakespeare and Adaptation Theory reconsiders, after 20 years of intense critical and creative activity, the theory and practice of adapting Shakespeare to different genres and media. Organized around clusters of key metaphors, the book explicates the principal theories informing the field of Shakespearean adaptation and surveys the growing field of case studies by Shakespeare scholars.Each ... Read more

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  • Theatre and Race

    by Harvey Young ...
    Series series Theatre And
    The theatre has always been a place where conceptions of race and racism have been staged, shared and perpetuated. Harvey Young introduces key ideas about race, before tracing its relationship with theatre and performance - from Ancient Athens to the present day. ... Read more

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  • We Have Never Been Woke

    The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite

    How a new “woke” elite uses the language of social justice to gain more power and status—without helping the marginalized and disadvantagedSociety has never been more egalitarian—in theory. Prejudice is taboo, and diversity is strongly valued. At the same time, social and economic inequality have exploded. In We Have Never Been Woke, Musa al-Gharbi argues that these trends are closely related, ... Read more

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  • Status and Culture

    How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change

    by W. David Marx ...
    **"Subtly altered how I see the world." —Michelle Goldberg, New York Times“[Status and Culture] consistently posits theories I'd never previously considered that instantly feel obvious.” —Chuck Klosterman, author of The Nineties“Why are you the way that you are? Status and Culture explains nearly everything about the things you choose to be—and how the society we live in takes shape in the process ... Read more

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