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Reviewing ShakespeareReviewing Shakespeare
with Dr Paul Edmondson and Dr Paul Prescott
Sponsored by the Arden Shakespeare
#reviewingshakespeare
www.bloomsbury.com/arden
A Year of Shakespeare
and new and new directions in directions in
academic academic reviewingreviewing
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And I, forsooth, in love! I, that have been love’s whip,
A very beadle to a humorous sigh,
A critic, nay, a night-watch constable,
A domineering pedant o’er the boy [Cupid]
Than whom no mortal so magnificent! (Love’s Labour’s Lost 3.1.169-73)
Nightwatch Constables vs.
Domineering Pedants
The rise of academic reviewing
Shakespeare Survey – 1948
Shakespeare Quarterly – 1950
Cahiers Élisabéthains – 1972
Shakespeare Bulletin - 1982
Busting the joint, joining the beat
Busting the joint, joining the beat
[T]he public critic has been dismembered by two opposing forces: the tendency of academic criticism to become increasingly inward-looking and non-evaluative, and the momentum for journalistic and popular criticism to become a much more democratic, dispersive affair, no longer left in the hands of the experts.
Rónán McDonald, The Death of the Critic. London: Continuum, 2007: ix.
[T]oo often members of the postmodern professoriate […] sound as if they live in some very distant world. Not an elite ivory tower as in the past, but something like a strange, perhaps perverse, cult […] I’m not sure if it’s a prison or a madhouse or both. In any event, the inmates show little desire to ‘bust the joint’.
Curtis White, The Middle Mind: why Americans don’t think for themselves. London: Allen Lane, 2004: p.5
'This is an extraordinary collection of essays recording the events of the World Shakespeare Festival, summoning up its kaleidoscopic diversity, its global reach, its oddities, triumphs and provocations- it's Shakespeare criticism as you have never encountered it before, scholarly, experimental, instant, and at times bizarre.’
Dame Margaret Drabble
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‘The written response we have in mind is
something of a hybrid – part blog, part review,
part provocation, depending on the writer and
his/her experience of the production. We are
not looking for an authoritative, densely
detailed and argued verdict on the
production, more a lively, unguarded and
informal set of thoughts and impressions.’
Newspaper coverage of the Globe to Globe Festival
Newspaper coverage of the Globe to Globe Festival
The Guardian only newspaper to review all productions
The Financial Times covered roughly half
Excluding Globe’s own production of Henry V, the rest of the national press published only fifteen reviews in total of the remaining 37 productions
Chariots of Fire at Hampstead Theatre reviewed by at least 17 critics; most RSC and Globe productions reviewed in a dozen newspapers
‘Back to British business as usual’….‘Back to British business as usual’….
‘After the enticing international extravaganza of Globe to Globe, it’s back to British business as usual at Bankside’ (Fiona Mountford, Evening Standard)
Dominic Dromgoole had ‘timed to perfection his production of Shakespeare’s celebration of our country, our way of life and our willingness to defend it’ (Tim Walker, Sunday Telegraph)
‘The evening acts as a chastening reminder of what a country needs when it’s up against it. Those rash souls at the Ministry of Defence, pruning the army to within an inch of its life, would do well to take note’ (Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph)
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World Shakespeare Festival Archive
World Shakespeare Festival Archive
• Shakespeare Centre Library• Trusted Digital Repository• Paper Archive
World Shakespeare Festival Archive
World Shakespeare Festival Archive
We need the following programmes:• The Rest is Noise (dreamthinkspeak)• Falstaff (ROH)• Macbeth: Leila and Ben – A Bloody History (LIFT)• West Side Story (Sage, Gateshead)• Desdemona (Barbican Centre)• 2008 Macbeth (Edinburgh Festival)
World Shakespeare Festival Archive
World Shakespeare Festival Archive
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http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/a-year-of-shakespeare-9781408188149/
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