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Performing Shakespeare on an Endangered Planet

Expected online publication date:  27 June 2025

Katherine Steele Brokaw
Affiliation:
University of California, Merced
Elizabeth Freestone
Affiliation:
Royal Shakespeare Company

Summary

Given the many environmental crises facing the planet, we need to use all tools to address them, including Shakespearean theatre. This Element explains why Shakespeare is well-positioned to be an eco-playwright, how theatre-makers can adapt his plays to matter now, and how to make more ecological the many processes of Shakespearean theatre, from set design to performing outdoors. The co-authors are both directors, and conversations between them about their recent eco-productions of The Tempest for the Royal Shakespeare Company and A Midsummer Night's Dream for Shakespeare in Yosemite (California) give clear examples of both the why and how of eco-theatrical Shakespeare.
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Online ISBN: 9781009569613
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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