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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Behold, Steve Bannon’S Hip-Hop Shakespeare Rewrite: 'Coriolanus', Daniel Pollack-Pelzner
Behold, Steve Bannon’S Hip-Hop Shakespeare Rewrite: 'Coriolanus', Daniel Pollack-Pelzner
Faculty Publications
In this opinion piece originally published in the New York Times, Daniel Pollack-Pelzner examines The Thing I Am (a contemporary rewrite of Coriolanus, as envisioned by Steve Bannon and Julia Jones) in the context of Shakespeare's original play. Pollack-Pelzner argues that Bannon's political playbook is evident in the script for The Thing I Am — namely, a violent macho conflict to purge corrupt leaders and pave the way for a new strongman to emerge.
Twelfth Night And The Philology Of Nonsense, Adam Zucker
Twelfth Night And The Philology Of Nonsense, Adam Zucker
Adam Zucker
No abstract provided.
Introduction To "Early Modern To Postmodern Shakespeares: Three Approaches To Staging Romeo And Juliet", Ann M. Shanahan, Anne Fliotsos
Introduction To "Early Modern To Postmodern Shakespeares: Three Approaches To Staging Romeo And Juliet", Ann M. Shanahan, Anne Fliotsos
Department of Fine & Performing Arts: Faculty Publications and Other Works
No abstract provided.
The Merchant Of Venice In Shakespeare 400 Chicago, Verna Foster
The Merchant Of Venice In Shakespeare 400 Chicago, Verna Foster
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
Verna Foster, City Desk 400 staff member, reviews Shakespeare's Globe's 2016 production of The Merchant of Venice.
Something Is Rotten In The Unreal City: Hamlet In The Waste Land, Aimee Valentine
Something Is Rotten In The Unreal City: Hamlet In The Waste Land, Aimee Valentine
The Hilltop Review
T.S. Eliot’s poem of 1922, “The Waste Land,” lays philosophical and stylistic ground for the Modern literary movement in which human experience takes the performative shape of inner dialog (or soliloquy) for the benefit of the reader/audience. This essay will argue that Eliot’s poem is an existentialist work that is not merely informed by Shakespeare’s Hamlet (the earliest example of British existentialism), but is directly modeled after it, in Eliot’s attempt to rectify the play’s perceived failings. Existentialism as a key to unlocking the mood of Modern literature is overlooked by those critics who relegate existentialist literature to the …
"The Sense Of An Ending": The Destabilizing Effect Of Performance Closure In Shakespeare's Plays, Megan Lynn Selinger
"The Sense Of An Ending": The Destabilizing Effect Of Performance Closure In Shakespeare's Plays, Megan Lynn Selinger
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
What makes a good ending? How do we know when something ends? In performance, it is difficult to characterize that nebulous and highly subjective — yet nonetheless theatrically powerful — “sense” of an ending. Previous scholarly work on Shakespearean endings, even when emphasizing performance, has largely focused on understanding endings from a narrative viewpoint, questioning how endings reach textual closure. These works examine the lingering questions or problems at the end of Shakespeare’s texts, and discuss how performance tackles these issues.
This dissertation takes performance as its starting point. It argues that Shakespearean performance endings naturally trouble textual conclusiveness, as …
Behind The Stakes, Between The Lines, Beyond The Pun: A Critical Deconstruction Of Humor In William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, And Other Popular Comedies, Jaime Libby
Dissertations, Masters Theses, Capstones, and Culminating Projects
Humor is a powerful rhetorical device employed at all levels of human discourse—from casual banter to political debate. Still, despite humor’s global prevalence, its historical transgressiveness, and its distinct potential both to neutralize and critically engage highly fraught issues, humans do not often pause to ask how humor works. And what does its working tell us about our humanness? This thesis explores the operation of humor in literature and performance, using tools provided by structuralist, deconstructive, and postmodern critical arenas, to reveal how humor’s fundamental structures invite humans to entertain new perspectives and practice empathy. The study considers irony, the …
Classical Masculinity In Shakespeare’S Antony And Cleopatra, Timothy N. Grams
Classical Masculinity In Shakespeare’S Antony And Cleopatra, Timothy N. Grams
All NMU Master's Theses
This thesis uses the formula of classical masculinity to examine Marc Antony’s value as a Roman man in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra. Examining Antony’s history as a Roman hero, I distinguish how his reputation is destroyed through his romantic involvement with Cleopatra. Furthermore, I consider the divine representations of Cleopatra and Octavian Caesar as they oppose each other, and how Antony’s role within their conflict defines his value as a classical Roman man. I then deliberate his sexual fetishism for the matriarch pharaoh, and how their relationship functions as sadomasochistic, defining Antony as the masochist and Cleopatra as the …
Lovable Rogue: The Shenanigans Of Sir Toby Belch In William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night", William Clark Rogers
Lovable Rogue: The Shenanigans Of Sir Toby Belch In William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night", William Clark Rogers
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This thesis documents and explores the actor’s approach to and discovery of the values, methods and motivations of Sir Toby Belch in the Fall 2015 University Theatre production of William Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night.” In addition, the author’s second thesis role was as Andrew Makepeace Ladd III in A. R. Gurney’s, “Love Letters” produced and performed in Kimpel Hall Studio during Spring 2016. The thesis also includes a personal statement of artistry, programs for the thesis related performances, a headshot, resume, production photos and a link to the actor’s website.
The Day I Walked Off The Motherf**King Stage: Shakespeare To Stephen Adly Guirgis, Christopher Markus Hecke
The Day I Walked Off The Motherf**King Stage: Shakespeare To Stephen Adly Guirgis, Christopher Markus Hecke
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This thesis represents the culmination of my craft as an actor, through the collection of production material from Twelfth Night, and The Motherfucker With The Hat, headshot, resume, website link and my personal statement of artistry.
A Storm In The Port: The Process Designing Twelfth Night, Jacquelyn Ryan Cox
A Storm In The Port: The Process Designing Twelfth Night, Jacquelyn Ryan Cox
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of this thesis is to document the process and provide all the necessary materials for the realization of the lighting design for the University of Arkansas Department of Theatre’s 2015 production of Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare. This thesis consists of the following materials: designer’s script analysis, design concept statement, historical and evocative research, Vectorworks overstage plot, Vectorworks section plot, LightWright paperwork, cue sheet, final magic sheets, and process evaluation. The materials provided are necessary to the design team, the electricians who hang the light plot, and the designer in order program the cues. Archival photography is included …
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Taylor Theatre Playbills
Taylor Theatre presents William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Performed April 29-30 and May 6-7, 2016 at the Mitchell Theatre. Mischief meets merriment in this fresh re-imagining of Shakespeare's most popular romantic comedy.
In just one night, four magical stories are cleverly woven together: the marriage of the Athenian duke to the Amazon queen; the battle of the king and queen of the fairies; the follies of four lovers in a forest; and the hilarious antics of amateur actors staging a play. Enter a vibrant world where fairies fly overhead, a donkey bursts into song, and love potion makes your …
Exploring Femme Fatale Through Lady Macbeth, Tori Hidalgo
Exploring Femme Fatale Through Lady Macbeth, Tori Hidalgo
Undergraduate Honors Thesis Projects
I performed the role of Lady Macbeth at a common hour presented to Otterbein University’s Department of Theatre and Dance students. The concept involved presenting a cut of Shakespeare’s Macbeth that highlighted the development of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s relationship. In scripting and performing this adaptation, I sought to fully incorporate my body into my acting style and to expand and apply my knowledge of the femme fatale archetype to a well known literary character: Lady Macbeth. Another goal of this project was to determine how and if the femme fatale fits into feminist ideologies.
Shakespeare's Blush, Or "The Animal" In Othello, Steven Swarbrick
Shakespeare's Blush, Or "The Animal" In Othello, Steven Swarbrick
Publications and Research
This essay examines how the rhetoric of animalization in Shakespeare’s Othello compels us to think early modern categories of race in connection with early modern discourses of “human” versus “animal.” Beginning with Shakespeare’s representation of Iago, I suggest that it is the potential for sameness conditioned by Iago’s counterfactual statement (“Were I the Moor, I would not by Iago”) that is most significant about his relation to Othello. From there I consider the overlap between the play’s representations of animality and black skin. Read in the context of Jacques Derrida’s reflections on animals, I consider the deconstructive value of linking …
Ms-192: Ariel's Way, Devin Mckinney
Ms-192: Ariel's Way, Devin Mckinney
All Finding Aids
Musician and teacher James G. Henderson, '71 wrote a musical based on Shakespeare's The Tempest called The Tempest, Ariel's Way: A Musical of Betrayal Revenge, and Reconciliation. Written in 2003 and first performed in 2005, Ariel's Way was revised and restaged in October 2010 with professional performers and musicians. This second production was shot on multiple cameras and edited into a high-quality video.
This collection contains, in hard copy and digital form, all visual, musical, and written materials required to produce Ariel’s Way. These include the libretto, written scores for piano and conductor, lead sheets for musicians, guidelines …
Othello In Shakespeare 400 Chicago, Verna Foster
Othello In Shakespeare 400 Chicago, Verna Foster
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
Verna Foster, City Desk 400 staff member, reviews a performance of Othello at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater.
As You Like It, Parkland College
As You Like It, Parkland College
Parkland Theatre
Parkland College Theatre Presents (on its ILLUSTRIOUS *new* second stage)
The Curate Shakespeare As You Like It
Being the Record of One Company's Attempt to Perform the Play by William Shakespeare.
Written by Mr. Don Nigro & Directed by Ms. Kate Riley
Feb. 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 27 at 7:30pm
Feb. 28 at 3pm
The Filial Dagger: The Case Of Hal And Henry Iv In 1 & 2 Henry Iv And The Famovs Victories, Kristin M.S. Bezio
The Filial Dagger: The Case Of Hal And Henry Iv In 1 & 2 Henry Iv And The Famovs Victories, Kristin M.S. Bezio
Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications
English culture and politics in the last decade of the sixteenth century were both patriarchal and patrilineal, in spite of— or, perhaps, in part, because of—the so-called bastard queen sitting on the throne. The prevailing political questions of the day concerned Elizabeth’s successor and the fate of the nation that, so many believed, hung precariously in the balance. Questions of legality, legitimacy, and fitness formed the crux of these debates, but almost all claimants attempted to justify their right by tracing their bloodlines back to either Henry VII or Edward III, the respective patriarchs of the Tudor dynasty and the …
Playing The Fool: Feste And Twelfth Night, Brooklyn D. Robinson
Playing The Fool: Feste And Twelfth Night, Brooklyn D. Robinson
Scripps Senior Theses
Twelfth Night does not end with the acceptance and consummation of these “alternative couples.” Instead, the reveal of the twins has a clarifying effect and the characters are returned to the partner who is considered socially acceptable. The final relationships are heterosexual matches that do not stray from class or any other societal confines. Indeed, the story serves to reinforce common standards equating alternative love with madness and proper love with lucidity. Standing outside of the couplings are only bachelor men: Antonio, Sir Andrew, Feste and Orsino’s pages. In effect, these men are desexualized without romantic counterparts. While they are …
“‘The Joys And Accessibility Of Shakespeare’S Theater’: Notes On The American Shakespeare Center’S Summer/Fall 2015 Season, Niamh J. O'Leary
“‘The Joys And Accessibility Of Shakespeare’S Theater’: Notes On The American Shakespeare Center’S Summer/Fall 2015 Season, Niamh J. O'Leary
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
The Performance Of Melancholy: Understanding The Humours Through Burton, Jonson, And Shakespeare, Lindsey N. Betts
The Performance Of Melancholy: Understanding The Humours Through Burton, Jonson, And Shakespeare, Lindsey N. Betts
CMC Senior Theses
This thesis aims to explore the relationships between dramatic texts and the Elizabethan topic of the humours. It covers Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, Jonson's plays Every Man Out of His Humour and Every Man in His Humour, and Shakespeare's plays Hamlet and As You Like It. Each of these works provides a glimpse into society and its opinions specifically on melancholy, from its most basic and complex definitions to how it is perceived and addressed.