Performing Transversally: Reimagining Shakespeare and the Critical Future

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Performing Transversally expands on Bryan Reynolds’ controversial transversal theory in exciting ways while offering groundbreaking analyses of Shakespeare’s plays Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, Taming of the Shrew, Titus Andronicus, Henry V, The Tempest, and Coriolanus and textual, filmic, and theatrical adaptations of them. With his collaborators, Reynolds challenges traditional readings of Shakespeare, re evaluating the critical methodologies that characterize them, in regard to issues of cultural difference, authorship, representation, agency, and iconography. Reynolds demonstrates the value of his ‘investigative expansive mode,’ outlining a ‘transversal poetics’ that points toward a critical future that is more aware of its subjective interconnectedness with the topics and audiences it seeks to engage than is reflected in most Shakespeare criticism and literary cultural scholarship.