Barbara Hodgdon
Biographic Data
| ID | 1212450 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara Hodgdon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara |
| FAMILY NAME | Hodgdon |
| SIGNATURE | HODGDON B |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Material Remains at Play
This essay meditates critically on the promptbook (or prompt script ), as well as other archival documents (dresser's notes, photographs, fight scripts, rehearsal notes), analyzing their form and function as they reveal traces of actors' bodies in relation to time and space. The essay's interest is in articulating a methodology for mapping the roles such material remains play in performance culture. Rather than attempting to reconstruct the (disa…
A Companion to Shakespeare and Performance
Antony and Cleopatra in the theatre
Speaking to himself – and heard by an offstage audience – Hamlet decides to have the visiting troupe of actors 'play something like the murder of my father': 'the play's the thing', he concludes, 'Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king'. Hamlet imagines theatrical enactment as a persuasive intervention which will provoke his uncle to reveal his guilt. Implicitly, he also affirms that his words – and those of the already 'extant' play in th…
The Shakespeare Trade
Shakespeare and the Authority of Performance (review)
Reviewed by: Shakespeare and the Authority of Performance Barbara Hodgdon Shakespeare and the Authority of Performance By W. B. Worthen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997; pp. x + 255. $49.95 cloth, $17.95 paper. W. B. Worthen has long been a prominent voice in ongoing conversations about drama and performance, especially about Shakespeare. This important, lucidly written book offers a comprehensive history and critique of how Shakespea…
Replicating Richard
Replicating Richard: Body Doubles, Body Politics Barbara Hodgdon (bio) At the close of an essay on reading Shakespeare’s bodies, Keir Elam writes: “A revised—which is to say historicized and materialized—post-semiotics of Shakespearean drama might offer an analogous space where social history, dramatic history and stage history interrogate each other. But in order to be both fully historicized and full materialized, such an enterprise can only se…
Absent Bodies, Present Voices
Four teenagers-two sisters and two young men-killed themselves together today in a suicide pact. The victims were found at about 6:30 a.m., seated in a car with its engine running in a garage at a sprawling garden apartment complex. At the community's high school yesterday, sorrowful students said abuse of alcohol and other drugs was common among local teen-agers, and they said school officials had been slow to respond to the problem. Only when t…
Replicating Richard
Replicating Richard: Body Doubles, Body Politics Barbara Hodgdon (bio) At the close of an essay on reading Shakespeare’s bodies, Keir Elam writes: “A revised—which is to say historicized and materialized—post-semiotics of Shakespearean drama might offer an analogous space where social history, dramatic history and stage history interrogate each other. But in order to be both fully historicized and full materialized, such an enterprise can only se…
Material Remains at Play
This essay meditates critically on the promptbook (or prompt script ), as well as other archival documents (dresser's notes, photographs, fight scripts, rehearsal notes), analyzing their form and function as they reveal traces of actors' bodies in relation to time and space. The essay's interest is in articulating a methodology for mapping the roles such material remains play in performance culture. Rather than attempting to reconstruct the (disa…
Absent Bodies, Present Voices
Four teenagers-two sisters and two young men-killed themselves together today in a suicide pact. The victims were found at about 6:30 a.m., seated in a car with its engine running in a garage at a sprawling garden apartment complex. At the community's high school yesterday, sorrowful students said abuse of alcohol and other drugs was common among local teen-agers, and they said school officials had been slow to respond to the problem. Only when t…
Replicating Richard
Replicating Richard: Body Doubles, Body Politics Barbara Hodgdon (bio) At the close of an essay on reading Shakespeare’s bodies, Keir Elam writes: “A revised—which is to say historicized and materialized—post-semiotics of Shakespearean drama might offer an analogous space where social history, dramatic history and stage history interrogate each other. But in order to be both fully historicized and full materialized, such an enterprise can only se…
The Shakespeare Trade
Shakespeare and the Authority of Performance (review)
Reviewed by: Shakespeare and the Authority of Performance Barbara Hodgdon Shakespeare and the Authority of Performance By W. B. Worthen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997; pp. x + 255. $49.95 cloth, $17.95 paper. W. B. Worthen has long been a prominent voice in ongoing conversations about drama and performance, especially about Shakespeare. This important, lucidly written book offers a comprehensive history and critique of how Shakespea…
Antony and Cleopatra in the theatre
Speaking to himself – and heard by an offstage audience – Hamlet decides to have the visiting troupe of actors 'play something like the murder of my father': 'the play's the thing', he concludes, 'Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king'. Hamlet imagines theatrical enactment as a persuasive intervention which will provoke his uncle to reveal his guilt. Implicitly, he also affirms that his words – and those of the already 'extant' play in th…
A Companion to Shakespeare and Performance
Material Remains at Play
This essay meditates critically on the promptbook (or prompt script ), as well as other archival documents (dresser's notes, photographs, fight scripts, rehearsal notes), analyzing their form and function as they reveal traces of actors' bodies in relation to time and space. The essay's interest is in articulating a methodology for mapping the roles such material remains play in performance culture. Rather than attempting to reconstruct the (disa…
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