Potential for Different Interpretations

Question 1

What does Jonathon Dillimore identify in Renaissance theatre?

Answer 1

Dual direction - could both be seen to express power by controlling audiences, but also could be used to critique power by displaying it

Question 2

What does Steven Greenblatt call theatricality?

Answer 2

‘one of power’s central modes’

Question 3

What does Steven Greenblatt identify as the ‘very condition of pwoer’?

Answer 3

‘the production of subversion is…the very condition of power’ - necessity for challenge to enable power (though contained)

Question 4

What does Graham Holderness argue about ‘cultural intervention’ regarding Shakespeare@

Answer 4

the ‘most promising space for cultural intervention remains…that of education’ rather than film or TV adaptations of Shakespeare