Shakespeare, Authority and Hauntology: Postdramatic Performance in Walny Theatre’s Hamlet

• Authors: Edyta Lorek-Jezińska
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The aim of this article is to explore the potential of hauntological theories to explain and problematise selected aspects of authority and performance in the context of Shakespeare’s drama. Referring primarily to Derrida’s and Abraham’s concepts of the ghost and the phantom and their connection to Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the article discusses hauntological perspectives on performance, both deconstructing and reaffirming authority. The paper comments on the relation between text and performance (Brook, Lehmann), memory and repetition (Carlson), disappearance and perpetual present (Phelan), as well as archive and repertoire (Taylor) in order to highlight the contradictory yet productive ways of understanding performance. The final part of the article, focusing on the significance of the ghost figure, examines experimental appropriations of Shakespeare’s play in Walny Theatre’s Hamlet (2015) in the light of postdramatic aesthetics.

Keywords

EN

authority; hauntology; Shakespeare; Hamlet; postdramatic performance; Walny Theatre

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 17
• Issue: 32
• Pages: 21-34

Dates

published

2018-06-30

Contributors

author

Edyta Lorek-Jezińska

• Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń

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Identifiers

DOI

10.18778/2083-8530.17.03