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Louise Geddes deposited The Thing Itself: Performing the Celebrity Text on Humanities Commons 1 year, 5 months ago
Since the turn of the twentieth-century, the presumed invisibility of craft that defines dramatic theatre erases our capacity to usefully theorize the repeated use of a popular script in performance. Lehmann’s postdramatic theatre has further facilitated a segregation between performance and dramatic theatre and current critical frameworks that p…[Read more]
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Louise Geddes deposited Variable Objects Introduction – Bound in A Nutshell: Shakespeare’s Vibrant Matter on Humanities Commons 1 year, 5 months ago
When Ben Jonson summons Shakespeare in his famous poem, “To The Memory of My Beloved the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare,” and assures the late dramatist that he is “alive still while thy book doth live / And we have wits to read and praise to give,” Jonson affirms an authorial presence typical of the humanist approach to Shakespeare. More tantali…[Read more]
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Louise Geddes deposited Some Tweeting Cleopatra: Crossing Borders on and off the Shakespearean Stage in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month ago
This essay will examine the multiple performance texts that exist in Ivo Van Hove’s transcultural and transmedial performance event, The Roman Tragedies (which toured worldwide from 2007 to 2013) to suggest that, in today’s “spreadable” culture (to borrow from Henry Jenkins), appropriative use becomes the bridge that can unify ‘work’ and ‘event.…[Read more]
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Louise Geddes deposited Some Tweeting Cleopatra: Crossing Borders on and off the Shakespearean Stage in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month ago
This essay will examine the multiple performance texts that exist in Ivo Van Hove’s transcultural and transmedial performance event, The Roman Tragedies (which toured worldwide from 2007 to 2013) to suggest that, in today’s “spreadable” culture (to borrow from Henry Jenkins), appropriative use becomes the bridge that can unify ‘work’ and ‘event.…[Read more]
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Louise Geddes deposited Some Tweeting Cleopatra: Crossing Borders on and off the Shakespearean Stage in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month ago
This essay will examine the multiple performance texts that exist in Ivo Van Hove’s transcultural and transmedial performance event, The Roman Tragedies (which toured worldwide from 2007 to 2013) to suggest that, in today’s “spreadable” culture (to borrow from Henry Jenkins), appropriative use becomes the bridge that can unify ‘work’ and ‘event.…[Read more]
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Louise Geddes deposited Some Tweeting Cleopatra: Crossing Borders on and off the Shakespearean Stage on Humanities Commons 3 years, 1 month ago
This essay will examine the multiple performance texts that exist in Ivo Van Hove’s transcultural and transmedial performance event, The Roman Tragedies (which toured worldwide from 2007 to 2013) to suggest that, in today’s “spreadable” culture (to borrow from Henry Jenkins), appropriative use becomes the bridge that can unify ‘work’ and ‘event.…[Read more]
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Louise Geddes replied to the topic Petition in the discussion
Prospective Forum: Adaptation Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months ago
I support this petition and would be willing to serve in a leadership position.
Louise Geddes
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Louise Geddes deposited Unlearning Shakespeare Studies: Speculative Criticism and the Place of Fan Activism in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months ago
Bound by market pressures, twenty-first century academia finds itself fettered by the demands of “student success” that a capitalist knowledge economy places on its participants. Humanities scholars are, as Jonathan Dollimore noted in his 2014 SAA address, pressed with their back against the wall, “in a marketplace pretty indifferent to what…[Read more]
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Louise Geddes deposited Unlearning Shakespeare Studies: Speculative Criticism and the Place of Fan Activism in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months ago
Bound by market pressures, twenty-first century academia finds itself fettered by the demands of “student success” that a capitalist knowledge economy places on its participants. Humanities scholars are, as Jonathan Dollimore noted in his 2014 SAA address, pressed with their back against the wall, “in a marketplace pretty indifferent to what…[Read more]
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Louise Geddes deposited Unlearning Shakespeare Studies: Speculative Criticism and the Place of Fan Activism in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months ago
Bound by market pressures, twenty-first century academia finds itself fettered by the demands of “student success” that a capitalist knowledge economy places on its participants. Humanities scholars are, as Jonathan Dollimore noted in his 2014 SAA address, pressed with their back against the wall, “in a marketplace pretty indifferent to what…[Read more]
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Louise Geddes deposited Unlearning Shakespeare Studies: Speculative Criticism and the Place of Fan Activism on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months ago
Bound by market pressures, twenty-first century academia finds itself fettered by the demands of “student success” that a capitalist knowledge economy places on its participants. Humanities scholars are, as Jonathan Dollimore noted in his 2014 SAA address, pressed with their back against the wall, “in a marketplace pretty indifferent to what…[Read more]
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