New playwriting at Shakespeare's globe - Cantoni, Vera (London, UK Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018)
New Plays at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre -- pt. ONE The New Globe Plays -- 1. Something Old, Something New -- A reconstructed theatre -- Specially constructed plays -- 2. Presenting the Past -- Multiple time planes -- Shakespeare's ghost -- Language centre-stage -- Laughing matter -- No fools -- Anachronisms -- Paradoxical topicality -- Founding narratives -- Myths and religious narrations -- Histories -- Come all ye ... -- 3. The Spectacle of Spectators -- Spectators as participants -- Spectators as a challenge -- Spectators as interlocutors -- Spectators as supernumeraries -- Spectators as subject matter -- pt. TWO Brenton's Globe -- 4. The Weight of the Past -- Virtuoso meets Steinway -- History plays for now -- A British epic theatre -- Perverse saints -- Historiographic
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Globe Theatre (London, England : 1996- ) -- History; Playwriting; Theater -- England -- London; English drama -- 21st century