Festival Shakespeares
Networking Performance Across Europe
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2026
The Arden Shakespeare (Verlag)
978-1-350-51138-5 (ISBN)
The Arden Shakespeare (Verlag)
978-1-350-51138-5 (ISBN)
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The first study of the European Shakespeare Festivals Network (ESFN) during a five-year period of rising nationalism, Brexit and the coronavirus pandemic.
Rowena Hawkins develops an analysis of the European Shakespeare Festivals Network (ESFN) as a productive, intercultural space that destabilises traditional hierarchies in theatre. This book argues that ESFN performances offer audiences opportunities to rethink, rewrite and, crucially, to ‘network’ Shakespeare through active and comparative spectatorship.
Hawkins explores the locations in which Shakespeare Festivals are held and the dislocations that occur when festival Shakespeares move between them, asking what it means to host a range of global Shakespeare productions in historically-significant locations, such as castles or reconstructed early modern theatres. She considers whether festivals hosted in such sites produce different meanings for festivalgoers than those hosted in modern theatre spaces. Using two audience research studies, Hawkins draws out interesting facts about what international Shakespeare festivals mean to those who attend them, what they can offer a divided Europe and how modern retellings of early modern plays influence and complicate local political contexts.
Rowena Hawkins develops an analysis of the European Shakespeare Festivals Network (ESFN) as a productive, intercultural space that destabilises traditional hierarchies in theatre. This book argues that ESFN performances offer audiences opportunities to rethink, rewrite and, crucially, to ‘network’ Shakespeare through active and comparative spectatorship.
Hawkins explores the locations in which Shakespeare Festivals are held and the dislocations that occur when festival Shakespeares move between them, asking what it means to host a range of global Shakespeare productions in historically-significant locations, such as castles or reconstructed early modern theatres. She considers whether festivals hosted in such sites produce different meanings for festivalgoers than those hosted in modern theatre spaces. Using two audience research studies, Hawkins draws out interesting facts about what international Shakespeare festivals mean to those who attend them, what they can offer a divided Europe and how modern retellings of early modern plays influence and complicate local political contexts.
Rowena Hawkins is an independent researcher who works on global Shakespeare, Shakespeare festivals and Shakespeare in performance. She is also Festival Advisor to the York International Shakespeare Festival (UK).
Introduction
Chapter 1. Locations: Shakespeare Festivals as Heterotopias
Chapter 2. Dislocations: The ESFN’s ‘Mechanics of “Exchange”’
Chapter 3. Diversity in a time of Division: Festival audiences in the UK, 2019
Chapter 4. Community in a time of Crisis: Festival audiences online, 2020
Chapter 5. Hope in a time of Hate: Festival audiences in Denmark, Poland, Romania and Serbia, 2022
References
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 19.2.2026 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-51138-2 / 1350511382 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-51138-5 / 9781350511385 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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