Performing Restoration Shakespeare (Portfolio)
- Submitting institution
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Queen's University of Belfast
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 147622055
- Type
- T - Other
- DOI
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- Location
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- Brief description of type
- Folger Shakespeare Library
- Open access status
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- Month
- November
- Year
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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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
- Portfolio submission for scholar-artist project encompassing performances, workshops and publications to investigate (i) how/why Restoration versions of Shakespeare succeeded in performance in their own time (1660-1715) and (ii) how/why they can succeed in performance today.
The research imperatives behind this research project addressed how to empower an international research team of scholars (musicologists, theatre historians, Shakespeareans) and artists (musicians, actors) to undertake collaborative archival and practice-led research. In particular, the project was concerned with: rebalancing theatre scholarship by interrogating Restoration Shakespeare as multimedia performance event and not as text; influencing theatre studies by creating new collaborative methods for investigating historical performance genres, providing alternatives to methods that reproduce ‘original’ performance styles; sharing research with industry stakeholders, with goal of influencing repertoire and artistic process. Peer-assessment and research quality indicators for the project included: Collaboration with top international cultural organisations (Folger, Globe); Partner funding (Folger, cash contribution $300K); and AHRC funding (‘Performing Restoration Shakespeare’, 2017-20, £607K, Schoch PI); and research published in Shakespeare Bulletin and Folger/Globe websites. Outputs from the project are disseminating new methodologies for studying historical performance genres, including: scholar-artist workshop on ‘Macbeth’/‘Measure for Measure’ in partnership with Folger Shakespeare Library/Theatre, Washington, DC (2014); research paper (American Society for Theatre Research, 2016); scholar-artist workshop/ performance of ‘The Tempest’ in partnership with Globe, London (2017); scholar-artist workshops and Equity production of ‘Macbeth’ in partnership with Folger Theatre (2018); videos documenting research process (2019); research paper (Oxford Renaissance Seminar, 2020). Schoch also co-authored article for Shakespeare Bulletin and papers (American Society for 18th-c Studies, American Society Theatre Research, 2020)
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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