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Shakespearean Charity and the Perils of Redemptive Performance

Shakespearean Charity and the Perils of Redemptive Performance

Barnes, Todd Landon

Paperback

Series: Elements in Shakespeare Performance

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1108743161
ISBN13: 9781108743167
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Apr 9 2020
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.23 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.00
Language: English
This Element examines recent documentaries depicting marginalized youth who are ostensibly redeemed by their encounters with Shakespeare. These films emerge in response to four historical and discursive developments: the rise of reality television and its emphasis on the emotional transformation of the private individual; the concomitant rise of neoliberalism and emotional capitalism, which employ therapeutic discourses to individualize social inequality; the privatization of public education and the rise of so-called no-excuses or new paternalist charter schools; and the emergence of new modes of address infusing evangelical conversion narratives with a therapeutic self-help ethos.

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