Shakespeare in performance is now a core interest for all Shakespeareans: students, scholars, theatre professionals, and general audiences—anyone with a love of Shakespeare. Shakespeare’s Staging collects audio-visual materials related to the performance of Shakespeare’s plays from the time of Shakespeare to the present. Students writing about Shakespeare, teachers teaching Shakespeare, scholars researching Shakespeare, and performers staging new productions of Shakespeare’s work can all use the site to enrich their understanding of the performance aspects of these scripts.
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Browse images and videos related to individual plays, including historical context for the plays’ settings, and the production history of the plays. Also find bibliography related to the plays, and original essays on aspects of staging each play.
Discover how approaches to staging Shakespeare have changed over time, from the stage conventions of the Elizabethan theater to contemporary interpretations on stage and screen.
Explore specific issues of staging, such as the design of Renaissance theaters, approaches to race and gender in casting, the staging of Shakespeare’s plays in translation, and how new media and the internet have changed how we stage and study Shakespeare.