{"id":304,"date":"2016-09-08T08:18:02","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T08:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/?p=304"},"modified":"2025-02-24T18:16:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T23:16:34","slug":"shakespeare-in-ten-acts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/2016\/09\/08\/shakespeare-in-ten-acts\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare in Ten Acts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Shakespeare in Ten Acts<\/h1>\n\n
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Andrew Keener<\/a><\/div>\n\n
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Shakespeare in Ten Acts<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The British Library<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

15 April\u20136 September 2016<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Shakespeare in Ten Acts<\/em>, a superb and expansive exhibition at the British Library, offers a view into ten productions of Shakespeare that changed Shakespeare forever. Arranged chronologically, but offering pathways throughout to earlier and later centuries, ten displays both tap into traditional expectations and satisfy new curiosities. Coming from a variety of repositories, the materials range from the First Folio to a video clip of the Wooster Group\u2019s digital-age Hamlet<\/em>, delving all the while into topics including stage technology, globalism, gender, race, textual authenticity, and stage aesthetics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The objective of the exhibition is not to shore up a sense of Shakespeare\u2019s universal genius, but rather to illustrate the vast array of interpretations, adaptations, and even forgeries, that have shaped his works\u2019 legacy for the modern day and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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