Playing Shakespeare's Rebels and Tyrants

Playing Shakespeares Rebels and Tyrants is the fourth volume in the Peter Lang series, exploring how Shakespeare's characters rebel and become tyrants, with references to Elizabethan and Jacobean studies, Donald Trump, the social justice movement, and the January 6, 2021 insurrection. It examines the Henrys, Hotspurs, Richards, Lears, Brutuses, and Caesars, as well as the Juliets, Rosalinds, and Cordelias, and how Shakespeare's text can inform current conversations about race, equity, representation, rebellion, and tyranny.

Format: Hardback
Length: 110 pages
Publication date: 21 September 2021
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc

Playing Shakespeares Rebels and Tyrants is the fourth volume in the Peter Lang series, Playing Shakespeares Characters. As in the previous volumes, a broad range of contributors (actors, directors, scholars, educators, etc.) analyze the concepts of rebellion, tyranny, leadership, empathy, with not only references to Elizabethan and Jacobean studies, but also to Donald Trump, the social justice movement, and the January 6, 2021 insurrection. Shakespeare's rebels occupy space in both the personal and political, and often quickly turn from rebel to tyrant once in power. How can Shakespeare's text inform current conversations about race, equity, representation, rebellion, and tyranny? Who gets to define the power dynamics in Shakespeare's plays? This volume looks at the Henrys, Hotspurs, Richards, Lears, Brutuses, and Caesars, as well as the Juliets, Rosalinds, and Cordelias who make up the panoply of Shakespeare's rebels and tyrants.

Weight: 252g
Dimension: 225 x 150 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781433190421
Edition number: New ed