Performing Transversally Reimagining Shakespeare and the Critical Future

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.

Foreword: Seeing Across Shakespeare; J.Reinelt Transversal Performance: Shakespace, the September 11th Attacks, and the Critical Future; B.Reynolds The Making of Authorships: Transversal Navigation in the Wake of Hamlet, Robert Wilson, Wolfgang Wiens, and Shakespace; D.J.Hopkins & B.Reynolds Venetian Ideology or Transversal Power?: Iago's Motives and the Means by which Othello Falls; J.Fitzpatrick & B.Reynolds (with additional dialogue by Bryan Reynolds and Janna Segal) 'What is the city but the people?': Transversal Performance and Radical Politics in Shakespeare's Coriolanus and Brecht's Coriolan; B.Reynolds Untimely Ripped: Mediating Witchcraft in Polanski and Shakespeare; B.Reynolds Nudge, Nudge, Wink, Wink, Know What I Mean, Know What I Mean?: A Theoretical Approach to Performance for a Post-Cinema Shakespeare; D.J.Hopkins, C.Ingman, & B.Reynolds 'A little touch of Harry in the night': Translucency and Projective Transversality in the Sexual and National Politics of Henry V; D.Hedrick & B.Reynolds Inspriteful Ariels: Transversal Tempests; B.Reynolds & A.Thompson 'For such a sight will blind a father's eye': The Spectacle of Suffering in Taymor's Titus; C.Lehmann, B.Reynolds, & L.Starks Friend or Foe, Shakespeare's Ends is the Means: Revising Early Modern English Iconography, Elisabetta Points Toward the Critical Future; B.Reynolds and J.Segal Afterword: Walk Like An Egyptian; J.Gil Harris Appendix: Transversal Poetics: I.E.Mode Notes on Collaborators

BRYAN REYNOLDS is Associate Professor of Drama at the University of
California at Irvine, USA. He earned his Ph.D. from Harvard, where he studied Shakespeare under Marjorie Garber and Stephen Greenblatt.

Bryan has recently been named as one of Gary Taylor's '6 most brilliant Renaissance scholars in the world under 40'