Performing Transversally: Reimagining Shakespeare and the Critical Future

By Bryan Reynolds

Book Overview

Performing Transversally expands on Bryan Reynolds' controversial transversal theory in exciting ways while offering groundbreaking analyses of Shakespeare's plays - Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, Taming of the Shrew, Titus Andronicus, Henry V, The Tempest, and Coriolanus - and textual, filmic, and theatrical adaptations of them. With his collaborators, Reynolds challenges traditional readings of Shakespeare, re-evaluating the critical methodologies that characterize them, in regard to issues of cultural difference, authorship, representation, agency, and iconography. Reynolds demonstrates the value of his 'investigative-expansive mode, ' outlining a 'transversal poetics' that points toward a critical future that is more aware of its subjective interconnectedness with the topics and audiences it seeks to engage than is reflected in most Shakespeare criticism and literary-cultural scholarship.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 134963395X
• ISBN13: 9781349633951
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 319 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"