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Performances and Appropriations
New Cultural Studies Series
University of Pennsylvania Press
July 1998
On Sale: July 1, 1998
306 pages
ISBN: 0812213890
EAN: 9780812213898
Hardcover
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Historical
In these provocative case studies, Barbara Hodgdon examines
not only how Shakespeare's plays are staged and restaged by
readers and critics as well as by performers and directors,
but also how the Elizabethan age itself is recirculated and
marketed. Hodgdon's look at The Taming of the Shrew scans
from silent films, to the Shrew episode of the eighties
television show Moonlighting, to the most recent Royal
Shakespeare Company productions. Moving beyond Shakespeare's
plays themselves, she considers how film and television have
marketed Queen Elizabeth I's popular cultural memory and how
Stratford's various museum spaces celebrate and exhibit an
"authentic" Shakespeare side by side with "Shakespeare
kitsch" - T-shirts, ties, thimbles, savings banks, and other
mass market souvenirs. Styled as "a collector's history,"
The Shakespeare Trade offers an absorbing and timely account
of the means through which Shakespeare's plays, the figure
of Shakespeare, and Elizabethan England function in
twentieth-century British and American cultures.
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