Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Summer 2010
Abstract
This essay considers the use of Shakespeare as marker of authenticity and as a therapeutic space for performers and audiences across a number of genres, from professional actors in training literature to prison inmates in radio and film documentaries. It argues that in the wake of recent academic trends—the critique of "Shakespeare" as an author figure; the privileging of the text as a source of multiple, potentially conflicting readings—Shakespeare's function as cultural capital has shifted sites, from "Shakespeare" to the playtexts themselves.
Recommended Citation
Kozusko, Matt. "Monstrous!: Actors, Audiences, Inmates, and the Politics of Reading Shakespeare," Shakespeare Bulletin: Vol. 28, No. 2, Summer 2010, pp. 235-251 | DOI: 10.1353/shb.0.0157
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Comments
Copyright © 2010 The Johns Hopkins University Press. This article first appeared in Shakespeare Bulletin, Volume 28, Issue 2, Summer, 2010, pages 235-251.