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 Shakespeares 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.