Site, Space, and Intimacy: Sleep No More's Immersive Intertext

Introduction

Authors

  • Matt Kozusko Ursinus College

Keywords:

Performance Studies, Hamlet

Abstract

This introduction to the cluster of essays analyzing and assessing Sleep No More as theatrical experience focuses on the centrality of place to the New York production.

Author Biography

Matt Kozusko, Ursinus College

Matt Kozusko is Associate Professor of English at Ursinus College, where he teaches Shakespeare and early modern drama. His principal research interest is in Shakespeare and performance. Recent publications include articles in Shakespeare Survey, Early Theatre, Shakespeare Bulletin, and Borrowers and Lenders, and an essay collection, Thunder at a Playhouse: Essaying Shakespeare and the Early Modern Stage (co-editor, Susquehanna University Press, 2010). His edition of The Two Gentlemen of Verona (New Kittredge Shakespeare) is forthcoming. He is currently working on a monograph about Shakespeare as a redemptive or rehabilitative space in contemporary popular entertainment and imagination. He serves as editor for the Appropriations in Performance section of the journal Borrowers and Lenders: the Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation.

ssue Cover text: B&L, Vol. 7, No. 2, 2012. Image: Lady Macbeth cradles Macbeth who sits naked in a bloody bathtub. Masked figures look on.

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Published

2020-06-25

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 2 (2012): Fall/Winter

Section

Articles