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Author : Jay L. Halio
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0719026997
Every year, hundreds of thousands of people buy tickets to see Shakespeare's plays performed. No other playwright commands the kind of interest that Shakespeare does.
Author : Emma Smith
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780241361641
A THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 'The best introduction to the plays I've read, perhaps the best book on Shakespeare, full stop' Alex Preston, Observer 'It makes you impatient to see or re-read the plays at once' Hilary Mantel A genius and prophet whose timeless works encapsulate the human condition like no others. A writer who surpassed his contemporaries in vision, originality and literary mastery. Who wrote like an angel, putting it all so much better than anyone else. Is this Shakespeare? Well, sort of. But it doesn't really tell us the whole truth. So much of what we say about Shakespeare is either not true, or just not relevant, deflecting us from investigating the challenges of his inconsistencies and flaws. This electrifying new book thrives on revealing, not resolving, the ambiguities of Shakespeare's plays and their changing topicality. It introduces an intellectually, theatrically and ethically exciting writer who engages with intersectionality as much as with Ovid, with economics as much as poetry: who writes in strikingly modern ways about individual agency, privacy, politics, celebrity and sex. It takes us into a world of politicking and copy-catting, as we watch him emulating the blockbusters of Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Kyd, the Spielberg and Tarantino of their day; flirting with and skirting round the cut-throat issues of succession politics, religious upheaval and technological change. The Shakespeare in this book poses awkward questions rather than offering bland answers, always implicating us in working out what it might mean. This is Shakespeare. And he needs your attention.
Author : Paul Yachnin,Patricia Badir
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317056492
Theatrical performance, suggest the contributors to this volume, can be an unpredictable, individual experience as well as a communal, institutional or cultural event. The essays collected here use the tools of theatre history in their investigation into the phenomenology of the performance experience, yet they are also careful to consider the social, ideological and institutional contingencies that determine the production and reception of the living spectacle. Thus contributors combine a formalist interest in the affective and aesthetic dimensions of language and spectacle with an investment in the material cultures that both produced and received Shakespeare's plays. Six of the chapters focus on early modern cultures of performance, looking specifically at such topics as the performance of rusticity; the culture of credit; contract and performance; the cultivation of Englishness; religious ritual; and mourning and memory. Building upon and interrelating with the preceding essays, the last three chapters deal with Shakespeare and performance culture in modernity. They focus on themes including literary and theatrical performance anxiety; cultural iconicity; and the performance of Shakespearean lateness. This collection strives to bring better understanding to Shakespeare's imaginative investment in the relationship between theatrical production and the emotional, intellectual and cultural effects of performance broadly defined in social terms.
Author : Eric C. Brown,Estelle Rivier-Arnaud
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443865791
The fourteen essays included in this collection offer a range of contributions from both new and well-established scholars to the topic of Shakespeare and performance. From traditional studies of theatrical history and adaptation to explorations of Shakespeare’s plays in the circus, musical extravaganzas, the cinema, and drama at large, the collection embraces a number of performance spaces, times, and media. Shakespeare in Performance includes essays looking not only at sixteenth- and seventeenth-century stagings of the plays in England, but at productions of Shakespeare across time in the United States, France, Italy, Hungary, and Africa, underscoring the multiple embodiments and voices of Shakespeare’s art and including a variety of cultural approaches. The work is ultimately occupied with a number of questions generated by these continual iterations of Shakespeare. How can we write and trace what is ephemeral? To what purpose do we maintain the memory of past performances? How does the transmediation of Shakespeare inform the most basic interpretive acts? What motivates Shakespearean theatre across political borders? What kinds of meaning are produced by décor, movement, the actor’s virtuosity, the producer’s choices, or the audience’s response? Each essay thus, to some degree, describes and voices the now unseen.
Author : Translated by Hugh Macdonald
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781785898402
Shakespeare in Modern English breaks the taboo about Shakespeare’s texts, which have long been regarded as sacred and untouchable while being widely and freely translated into foreign languages. It is designed to make Shakespeare more easily understood in the theatre without dumbing down or simplifying the content. Shakespeare’s ‘As You Like It’, ‘Coriolanus’ and ‘The Tempest’ are presented in Macdonald’s book in modern English. They show that these great plays lose nothing by being acted or read in the language we all use today. Shakespeare’s language is poetic, elaborately rich and memorable, but much of it is very difficult to comprehend in the theatre when we have no notes to explain allusions, obsolete vocabulary and whimsical humour. Foreign translations of Shakespeare are normally into their modern language. So why not ours too? The purpose in rendering Shakespeare into modern English is to enhance the enjoyment and understanding of audiences in the theatre. The translations are not designed for children or dummies, but for those who want to understand Shakespeare better, especially in the theatre. Shakespeare in Modern English will appeal to those who want to understand the rich and poetical language of Shakespeare in a more comprehensible way. It is also a useful tool for older students studying Shakespeare.
Author : John Russell Brown
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Drama
ISBN : 155783136X
A former Associate Director for London's National Theatre invites readers to behold the fuller meaning of Shakespearean text as played, inviting them to seek their insights in Shakespeare's natural habitat: the stage. Includes considerations of recent productions at the Hartford Stage, Theatre for a New Audience, and the New York Shakespeare Festival.
Author : William B. Worthen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1997-09-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521558999
How the idea of Shakespearean authority is still invested in the activities of directing, acting, and scholarship.
Author : David Bevington
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780226044798
This study examines how Shakespeare's plays have been transformed for the stage by the demands of theatrical spaces and staging conventions.
Author : James C. Bulman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781134819188
Shakespeare, Theory and Performance is a groundbreaking collection of seminal essays which apply the abstract theory of Shakespearean criticism to the practicalities of performance. Bringing together the key names from both realms, the collection reflects a wide range of sources and influences, from traditional literary, performance and historical criticism to modern cultural theory. Together they raise questions about the place of performance criticism in modern and often competing debates of cultural materialism, new historicism, feminism and deconstruction. An exciting and fascinating volume, it will be important reading for students and scholars of literary and theatre studies alike.
Author : William B. Worthen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 052100800X
This book analyses how Shakespeare is recreated in historical performance.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 846 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105049237857
Author : James P. Lusardi
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838640591
This book assembles a cast of sixteen distinguished theater historians and performance critics, each of whom has contributed significantly to our understanding of issues associated with performing works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Their essays, all appearing in print for the first time, are presented in two groupings: a theater history and practice section, in which contributors examine matters related to performance in Shakespeare's time and our own, and a performance criticism section, in which contributors treat modern productions on stage and screen. In the theater history and practice section, Roslyn L. Knutson explores the 1599-1600 repertory of the Admiral's Men and the Chamberlain's Men, who performed in rival playhouses.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Akasha Classics
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1603033793
What actions are justified when the fate of a nation hangs in the balance, and who can see the best path ahead? Julius Caesar has led Rome successfully in the war against Pompey and returns celebrated and beloved by the people. Yet in the senate fears intensify that his power may become supreme and threaten the welfare of the republic. A plot for his murder is hatched by Caius Cassius who persuades Marcus Brutus to support him. Though Brutus has doubts, he joins Cassius and helps organize a group of conspirators that assassinate Caesar on the Ides of March. But, what is the cost to a nation now erupting into civil war? A fascinating study of political power, the consequences of actions, the meaning of loyalty and the false motives that guide the actions of men, Julius Caesar is action packed theater at its finest.
Author : Michael Bristol,Kathleen McLuskie,Christopher Holmes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005-07-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781134601202
First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Sarah Werner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005-07-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134588039
How do performances of Shakespeare change the meanings of the plays? In this controversial new book, Sarah Werner argues that the text of a Shakespeare play is only one of the many factors that give a performance its meaning. By focusing on The Royal Shakespeare Company, Werner demonstrates how actor training, company management and gender politics fundamentally affect both how a production is created and the interpretations it can suggest. Werner concentrates particularly on: The influential training methods of Cicely Berry and Patsy Rodenburg The history of the RSC Women's Group Gale Edwards' production of The Taming of the Shrew She reveals that no performance of Shakespeare is able to bring the plays to life or to realise the playwright's intentions without shaping them to mirror our own assumptions. By examining the ideological implications of performance practices, this book will help all interested in Shakespeare's plays to explore what it means to study them in performance.
