{"product_id":"shakespeare-in-the-theatre-shakespeare-theatre-company-hardcover","title":"Shakespeare in the Theatre: Shakespeare Theatre Company - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDeborah C. Payne\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDrew Lichtenberg\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eFarah Karim-Cooper\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCo-authored by the resident dramaturg at Shakespeare Theatre Company and a long-time scholarly consultant, this book chronicles how a small repertory troupe at the Folger Theatre on Capitol Hill became an internationally renowned company performing in a lavish, multi-venue performing arts centre in downtown Washington, D.C.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The artistic vision and business acumen of Michael Kahn, the founding Artistic Director, largely catalyzed this transformation, but so too did the forces of neoliberalism and, more recently, globalization and new media. Accordingly, \u003ci\u003eShakespeare in the Theatre: Shakespeare Theatre Company \u003c\/i\u003enot only examines directorial decision-making but also 3 decades of social and economic change in the nation's capital, from the complexities of gentrification to the arts policies of successive administrations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In addition to discussions of directorial practice, this book examines the ambivalence of American theatre artists toward their British cultural inheritance. Analyses of representative productions and interviews with Kahn and his British successor, Simon Godwin, illuminate this complex relationship: one that aspires to a cosmopolitan Anglophilia while positioning classically trained American actors as worthy rivals to their counterparts at the RSC and the National Theatre of Great Britain.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDrew Lichtenberg\u003c\/b\u003e has been resident dramaturg at the Shakespeare Theatre Company, USA, since 2011. He has worked as a dramaturg, literary manager and translator-adaptor with the Royal National Theatre, Public Theater, Roundabout, La Mama, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, McCarter Theatre Center, Yale Rep and Baltimore Center Stage. As an educator, he has taught courses at Catholic University of America, David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University and Eugene Lang College at the New School. His publications include \u003ci\u003eThe Piscatorbühne Century \u003c\/i\u003e(2021). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDeborah C. Payne\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Literature at American University, USA. She was the Humanities Research Consultant at the Shakespeare Theatre Company from 2000 - 2009, and she has dramaturged for Studio Theatre, Arena Stage, the Kennedy Center, and the Bach Sinfonia. Publications include \u003ci\u003eThe Business of English Restoration Theatre, 1660 - 1700 \u003c\/i\u003e(2023), \u003ci\u003eRevisiting Shakespeare's Lost Play \u003c\/i\u003e(2016), \u003ci\u003eFour Restoration Libertine Plays \u003c\/i\u003e(2005), \u003ci\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre \u003c\/i\u003e(2000) and \u003ci\u003eCultural Readings of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century English Theatre \u003c\/i\u003e(1995).\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 280\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 05, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51752492957984,"sku":"9781350352643","price":198.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/5301391a1d6b8dbf894c1c1610196a9f_34b199df-1aa0-4cdc-9331-81d86707b217.webp?v=1779997202","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/shakespeare-in-the-theatre-shakespeare-theatre-company-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}