Ours as we play it: Australia plays Shakespeare

by Flaherty, Kate, (Kathryn J.)

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Title Statements

Full title :Ours as we play it : Australia plays Shakespeare / Kate Flaherty.

Summary

Author Kate Flaherty, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Sydney, examines three of Shakespeare's plays in performance in Australia. The book takes a close look at several contemporary Australian productions of three of Shakespeare's best-loved plays: exploring masculinity and madness in "Hamlet," the role of landscape and the multiple roles of Rosalind in "As You Like It," and hierarchies of gender and social order re-imagined in relation to Australian understandings of power in "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Flaherty documents the use of Shakespeare's works to explore contemporary issues, recognizing how the text is combined with local associations to produce a Shakespeare that is uniquely Australian.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2011.
Edition:[First edition]

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):UWA Publishing
Place of Publication:Crawley, W.A
Language:eng
Publication Date:2011.

The Physical Object

Description:287 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781742582627, 1742582621
oclc:ocn716054980
LC Classification:PR3109.A9
Dewey Decimal:822.33

Subjects

Art appreciation As you like it (Shakespeare, William) Aufführung Australia Australien Drama English English Literature Hamlet (Shakespeare, William) Languages & Literatures Midsummer night's dream (Shakespeare, W… Rezeption Shakespeare, William