TY - JOUR
T1 - Researching post-war British Shakespearean productions: A review of the Theatre Archive Project
AU - Olive, Sarah Elizabeth
PY - 2016/4/1
Y1 - 2016/4/1
N2 - Recent years have seen an impetus to collect and disseminate oral theatre criticism in Shakespeare studies, which is traditionally spontaneous and ephemeral. One manifestation of this is the Theatre Archive Project (TAP), which focuses on post-war Britain (1945–68). This article offers an overview of the TAP’s content in relation to professional Shakespeare productions. Moreover, it articulates some of the pleasures and challenges of using the TAP. Outlining these is intended to benefit researchers considering using the project’s materials but also the project itself as it continues to collect, digitize and share material.
AB - Recent years have seen an impetus to collect and disseminate oral theatre criticism in Shakespeare studies, which is traditionally spontaneous and ephemeral. One manifestation of this is the Theatre Archive Project (TAP), which focuses on post-war Britain (1945–68). This article offers an overview of the TAP’s content in relation to professional Shakespeare productions. Moreover, it articulates some of the pleasures and challenges of using the TAP. Outlining these is intended to benefit researchers considering using the project’s materials but also the project itself as it continues to collect, digitize and share material.
UR - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0184767815627762
U2 - 10.1177/0184767815627762
DO - 10.1177/0184767815627762
M3 - Article
SN - 0184-7678
VL - 89
SP - 45
EP - 57
JO - Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies
JF - Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies
IS - 1
ER -