{"product_id":"lockdown-shakespeare-9781350247840","title":"Lockdown Shakespeare","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis edited collection offers the first in-depth analysis and sourcebook for \u003ci\u003eLockdown Shakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e. It brings together scholars of stage, screen, early modern and adaptation studies to examine the work that emerged during the Covid-19 pandemic and considers issues of form, liveness, reception, presence, and community.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInterviews with theatre makers and artists illuminate the challenges and benefits of creating new work online, while educators consider how digital tools have facilitated the teaching of Shakespeare through performance. Together, the chapters in this book offer readers the definitive work on the performance and adaptation of Shakespeare online during the pandemic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom The Show Must Go Online, which presented Shakespeare’s First Folio via YouTube, to Creation Theatre and Big Telly’s interactive \u003ci\u003eThe Tempest\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMacbeth\u003c\/i\u003e, which used Zoom as their stage, the book documents the variety and richness of work that emerged during the pandemic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt reveals how, by taking Shakespeare online in new and innovative ways, the theatre industry sparked the evolution of new forms of performance with their own conventions, aesthetics, and notions of liveness. Among the other productions discussed are Arden Theatre Company’s \u003ci\u003eA Midsummer Night’s Dream\u003c\/i\u003e, Tender Claws’ \u003ci\u003eThe Under Presents: Tempest\u003c\/i\u003e, The Shakespeare Ensemble’s \u003ci\u003eWhat You Will\u003c\/i\u003e, Merced Shakespearefest’s \u003ci\u003eRicardo II\u003c\/i\u003e, CtrlAltRepeat’s \u003ci\u003eMidsummer Night Stream\u003c\/i\u003e, Sally McLean’s \u003ci\u003eShakespeare Republic: #AllTheWebsAStage (The Lockdown Chronicles)\u003c\/i\u003e, and Justina Taft Mattos’s \u003ci\u003eMoore – A Pacific Island Othello\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596792447212,"sku":"9781350247840","price":137.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/66b27ad5c5548c8de20431d99f46c758.jpg?v=1777956089","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/lockdown-shakespeare-9781350247840","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}