Stanley Wells / Sarah Stanton (eds.)

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Stage

Herausgeber: Stanley, Wells; Wells, Stanley W.; Stanton, Sarah

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Produktbeschreibung

This 2002 Companion is designed for readers interested in past and present productions of Shakespeare's plays, both in and beyond Britain. The first six chapters describe aspects of the British performing tradition in chronological sequence, from the early staging of Shakespeare's own time, through to the present day. Each relates Shakespearean developments to broader cultural concerns and adopts an individual approach and focus, on textual adaptation, acting, stages, scenery or theatre management. These are followed by three explorations of acting: tragic and comic actors and women performers of Shakespeare roles. A section on international performance includes chapters on interculturalism, on touring companies and on political theatre, with separate accounts of the performing traditions of North America, Asia and Africa. Over forty pictures illustrate peformers and productions of Shakespeare from around the world. An amalgamated list of items for further reading completes the book.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780521797115
• ISBN-10: 052179711X
• Artikelnr.: 10530533

Autorenporträt

Stanley Wells is Emeritus Professor and Director of the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. He is General Editor of the Oxford Shakespeare, editor of The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare Studies (1986), coeditor, with Margreta de Grazia, of The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare (2001), co-author of William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion (1987) and author of Shakespeare: A Dramatic Life (1995).

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations; Preface; 1. Shakespeare plays on Renaissance stages Gary Taylor; 2. Improving Shakespeare: from the Restoration to Garrick Jean I. Marsden; 3. Romantic Shakespeare Jane Moody; 4. Pictorial Shakespeare Richard W. Schoch; 5. Reconstructive Shakespeare: reproducing Elizabethan and Jacobean stages Marion O'Connor; 6. Twentieth-century performance: the Stratford and London companies Robert Smallwood; 7. The tragic actor and Shakespeare Simon Williams; 8. The comic actor and Shakespeare Peter Thomson; 9. Women and Shakespearean performance Penny Gay; 10. International Shakespeare Anthony B. Dawson; 11. Touring Shakespeare Peter Holland; 12. Shakespeare on the political stage in the twentieth century Wilhelm Hortmann; 13. Shakespeare in North America Michael A. Morrison; 14. Shakespeare on the stages of Asia John Gillies, Ryuta Minami, Ruru Li and Poonam Trivedi; 15. Shakespeare and Africa Martin Banham, Roshni Mooneeram and Jane Plastow; Further reading; Index.

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List of illustrations
Preface
1. Shakespeare plays on Renaissance stages Gary Taylor
2. Improving Shakespeare: from the Restoration to Garrick Jean I. Marsden
3. Romantic Shakespeare Jane Moody
4. Pictorial Shakespeare Richard W. Schoch
5. Reconstructive Shakespeare: reproducing Elizabethan and Jacobean stages Marion O'Connor
6. Twentieth-century performance: the Stratford and London companies Robert Smallwood
7. The tragic actor and Shakespeare Simon Williams
8. The comic actor and Shakespeare Peter Thomson
9. Women and Shakespearean performance Penny Gay
10. International Shakespeare Anthony B. Dawson
11. Touring Shakespeare Peter Holland
12. Shakespeare on the political stage in the twentieth century Wilhelm Hortmann
13. Shakespeare in North America Michael A. Morrison
14. Shakespeare on the stages of Asia John Gillies, Ryuta Minami, Ruru Li and Poonam Trivedi
15. Shakespeare and Africa Martin Banham, Roshni Mooneeram and Jane Plastow
Further reading
Index.

Rezensionen

'The extraordinary range and learning encapsulated in The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Stage make it an invaluable guide for students of Shakespeare in Performance across the globe, either for extended reading or topical search.' Ian Carruthers, La Trobe