Understanding dumb shows and interpreting The White Devil
- Submitting institution
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Birkbeck College
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 893
- Type
- C - Chapter in book
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- Book title
- Stage Directions and Shakespearean Theatre
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- ISBN
- 9781474257473
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This output comprises the work of co-editing the volume, a co-written introduction and the sole authored article, ‘Understanding Dumb Shows and Interpreting The White Devil’.
Woods identified stage directions as a productive research area and worked with Arden’s Commissioning Editor, Margaret Bartley, to develop the project. She enlisted a co-editor, Sarah Dustagheer (University of Kent). Together, Woods and Dustagheer collated a list of unexplored questions raised by stage directions, and selected a range of international scholars well placed to answer them. Having engaged potential contributors, they then shaped a proposed collection and secured a contract.
Woods and Dustagheer brought contributors together at a symposium at Birkbeck (June 2015), inviting performance practitioners from the Globe and Dolphin’s Back theatre company, and designing workshops, panels and a roundtable. This event was funded by Shakespeare Bulletin, the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Kent University, and Birkbeck’s Centre for Contemporary Theatre. Subsequently a group of the volume’s contributors, including Woods, took their research to a panel session at a meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America in New Orleans (March 2016). The work of writing the volume built on these events and further research.
Following submission of the completed manuscript Woods and Dustagheer worked with peer review reports to help contributors refine their essays. They then edited the final version and produced an index.
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- Non-English
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