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N°spécial de revue/special issue Shakespeare Bulletin Année : 2023

Contemporary Shakespeare: Dislocations and Disjunctions

Gordon Mcmullan
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Sabine Schülting
  • Fonction : Directeur de publication

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What is “contemporary” Shakespeare? And where might it be found? The most straightforward answer to the first question is a negative. “Contemporary Shakespeare” is not simply Shakespeare performed now: the bringing into the present of Shakespeare does not necessarily make the experience of an audience member contemporary in any strict sense, simply because so much of Shakespeare in the now has been shaped by various readings of the past. A further problem of the contemporary is that it is only recognizably “contemporary” after the event, not in the now: the present moment enables us (whoever, or whenever, “we” are) to look back at past events (in, say, the East Germany that has gone or in a festival experience that is ephemeral even in respect of theater’s intrinsic fleetingness) and see them as contemporary, or rather as having been contemporary. As to the “where” question, the answer—to judge at least by the essays in this special issue—is not straightforwardly “in the theater.” The contemporary is, rather, often to be found beyond the theatrical stage, in performance in the broadest sense of the term, or in an expanded form of theater in the street, on the web, during the festival, in the marginal or decentered nation.
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Line Cottegnies, Gordon Mcmullan, Sabine Schülting. Contemporary Shakespeare: Dislocations and Disjunctions. Shakespeare Bulletin, 41 (1), 2023. ⟨halshs-04230979⟩
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