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Barbara Hodgdon. The Shakespeare Trade: Performances and Appropriations. Philadephia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. Pp. xix + 306. $45.00 casebound, $19.95 paperbound
The Shakespeare Trade is part of the New Cultural Studies series coming out of Pennsylvania's press, and it is a book that moves the analysis of the Shakespeare business into new areas of investigation as well as offering new ways to do it. Barbara Hodgdon ably combines attention to areas of traditional cultural studies (film and artifacts, for example) with equally adroit readings of how particular performances of key plays by Shakespeare (usually since the early 1900s) have handled social, ideological issues like gender, race, and colonization. Hodgdon's treatment of these last three issues is especially interesting as she combines history of performances with reception theory, Lacanian approaches, and feminist readings, among others, to "open up a traffic between literary and theatrical cultures that resituates the study of performed Shakespeare within cultural studies" (xiii), thus offering readers both fresh insights on particular plays as well as a potentially significant way to think about how...
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