Overview
While much attention has been devoted to performances of Shakespeare's
plays today, little has been focused on modern productions of the plays
of his contemporaries, such as Marlowe, Webster and Jonson. Performing
Early Modern Drama Today offers an overview of early modern performance,
featuring chapters by academics, teachers and practitioners,
incorporating a variety of approaches. The book examines modern
performances in both Britain and America and includes interviews with
influential directors, close analysis of particular stage and screen
adaptations and detailed appendices of professional and amateur
productions. Chapters examine intellectual and practical opportunities
to analyse what is at stake when the plays of Shakespeare's
contemporaries are performed by ours. Whether experimenting with
original performance practices or contemporary theatrical and cinematic
ones, productions of early modern drama offer an inspiring, sometimes
unusual, always interesting perspective on the plays they interpret for
modern audiences.