Chicago Shakespeare Theater : : Suiting the Action to the Word / / Regina Buccola.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Buccola, Regina,
• MitwirkendeR: Abarbanel, Jonathan,; Billington, Michael,; Buccola, Regina,; Callow, Simon,; Di Salvo, Gina M.,; Doniger, Wendy,; Gore, Jeffrey,; Greenburg, Bradley,; Hulse, Clark,; Kanelos, Peter,; Ouzounian, Richard,; Sagal, Peter,; Shapiro, Michael,; Teachout, Terry,; Tomasian, Alicia,; Walker, Jonathan,; Wall, Wendy,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 32 halftones

The Chicago Shakespeare Theater is widely known for vibrant productions that reflect the Bard's genius for intricate storytelling, musicality of language, and depth of feeling for the human condition. Affectionately known to natives of the Windy City as "Chicago Shakes," this vanguard...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• PART I
• 1. Chicago First
• 2. Catapulting Shakespeare into the Present
• 3. Barbara, Shakespeare, and Me
• 4. The Spatial Rhetoric of Chicago Shakespeare Theater
• PART II
• 5. This One's for the Girls
• 6. Short Shakespeare! and the Corruption of the Young
• 7. Doing Things with Words ... and, Sometimes, Swords
• PART III
• 8. Chicago Shakespeare
• 9. Chicago Shakespeare Theater and the Canadians
• 10. The Framing of the Shrew
• 11. Michael Bogdanov
• 12. Risky Business
• PART IV
• 13. In Defense of Ruffled Feathers
• 14. "Never did young man fancy"
• 15. At Home with Shakespeare
• 16. Two Merchants
• 17. Gender Blending and Masquerade in As You Like It and Twelfth Night
• Notes on Contributors
• Index