Paul Barry

A Lifetime with Shakespeare

Notes from an American Director of All 38 Plays

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Written by the only American to direct and fight-choreograph all of Shakespeare's plays, this text represents an expert and practical guide to the Bard's oeuvre. From the Henry VI plays through The Tempest, each play is explored in its full theatrical complexity, with particular attention paid to directorial and acting challenges, character quirks and development, and the particularities of Shakespearean language. Directing successes are recounted, but the failures are not shied away from, making this work indispensable for anyone interested in producing plays by Shakespeare.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9780786449538
• ISBN-10: 0786449535
• Artikelnr.: 29355007

Autorenporträt

The late Paul Barry spent 60 years as a professional actor and musician on stage and in films, and directed more than 300 plays and musicals. He lived in Morristown, New Jersey.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments     
Foreword by Harry Keyishian     
Introduction     
1. Actors, Plays, and Playhouses     
2. The Taming of the Shrew     
3. A Midsummer Night's Dream     
4. Hamlet     
5. Macbeth     
6. The Comedy of Errors     
7. The Two Gentlemen of Verona     
8. Twelfth Night     
9. Romeo and Juliet     
10. Shakespeare's Warrior Plays     
11. Troilus and Cressida     
12. Julius Caesar     
13. Antony and Cleopatra     
14. Much Ado About Nothing     
15. Othello     
16. The Merchant of Venice     
17. The Tempest     
18. As You Like It     
19. Coriolanus     
20. Measure for Measure     
21. The Chronicle Plays     
22. Richard II     
23. Henry IV, Part 1     
24. Henry IV, Part 2     
25. The Merry Wives of Windsor     
26. Henry V     
27. Henry VI, Part 1     
28. Henry VI, Part 2     
29. Henry VI, Part 3     
30. Richard III     
31. Titus Andronicus     
32. Love's Labour's Lost     
33. King Lear     
34. Timon of Athens     
35. Cymbeline     
36. Henry VIII     
37. The Two Noble Kinsmen     
38. The Winter's Tale     
39. All's Well That Ends Well     
40. Pericles, Prince of Tyre     
41. King John     
Bibliography     
Index