Book contents
- Performing Restoration Shakespeare
- Performing Restoration Shakespeare
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Music Examples
- Notes on Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: New Shakespeare for a New Era
- Chapter 1 From Boards to Books: The Circulation of Shakespearean Songs in Manuscript and Print during the Interregnum
- Chapter 2 Heroic Shakespeare at Lincoln’s Inn Fields
- Chapter 3 More than a Song and Dance? Identifying Matthew Locke’s Incidental Music for Macbeth
- Chapter 4 Cross-Dressing in Restoration Shakespeare: Twelfth Night and The Tempest
- Chapter 5 Performing Restoration Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century
- Chapter 6 An Actor’s Perspective on Restoration Shakespeare
- Chapter 7 Staging Restoration Shakespeare with Restoration Music
- Chapter 8 Davenant’s Lady Macduff and the Subversion of Normative Femininity in Twenty-First-Century Performance
- Chapter 9 Facts as Ideas: The Theatricalisation of Scholarship
- Chapter 10 Syncopated Time: Staging the Restoration Tempest
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 10 - Syncopated Time: Staging the Restoration Tempest
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 January 2023
- Performing Restoration Shakespeare
- Performing Restoration Shakespeare
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Music Examples
- Notes on Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: New Shakespeare for a New Era
- Chapter 1 From Boards to Books: The Circulation of Shakespearean Songs in Manuscript and Print during the Interregnum
- Chapter 2 Heroic Shakespeare at Lincoln’s Inn Fields
- Chapter 3 More than a Song and Dance? Identifying Matthew Locke’s Incidental Music for Macbeth
- Chapter 4 Cross-Dressing in Restoration Shakespeare: Twelfth Night and The Tempest
- Chapter 5 Performing Restoration Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century
- Chapter 6 An Actor’s Perspective on Restoration Shakespeare
- Chapter 7 Staging Restoration Shakespeare with Restoration Music
- Chapter 8 Davenant’s Lady Macduff and the Subversion of Normative Femininity in Twenty-First-Century Performance
- Chapter 9 Facts as Ideas: The Theatricalisation of Scholarship
- Chapter 10 Syncopated Time: Staging the Restoration Tempest
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
In 2017, as part of the research project ‘Performing Restoration Shakespeare’, the editors led a research team of scholars and artists in discussing, workshopping, rehearsing, and performing scenes and songs from Thomas Shadwell’s 1674 operatic revision of Davenant and Dryden’s The Tempest at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. This chapter offers reflections on how scholar-artist collaboration in performing Restoration Shakespeare has functioned as sustained moments of what Rebecca Schneider (following Gertrude Stein) has called ‘syncopated time’ – in this instance, a collision of archival past and embodied present, in which each dimension punctured the other. Reflecting on their practice-based research, the authors propose that what can emerge through such syncopations are performance-generated insights that neither the recorded past nor the embodied present could fully apprehend on its own.
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- Performing Restoration Shakespeare , pp. 180 - 198Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023
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