Reviewing Shakespeare - Journalism and Performance From the Eighteenth Century to the Present

Paul Prescott presents an engaging account of the ways in which theatre critics have responded to Shakespeare over four centuries.

List of contents

1. An introduction to the night-watch constable; 2. Tradition and the individual talent: reviewing the Macbeth actor c.1740s-1890s; 3. New journalism, new critics c.1890-1910; 4. The reviewer in transition c.1920-60; 5. New contexts, new crises (1997-2012): reviewing from the opening of Shakespeare's Globe to the World Shakespeare Festival 2012; Works cited.

About the author

Paul Prescott is Associate Professor of English at the University of Warwick, a Trustee of the British Shakespeare Association and a teaching associate of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has published widely on theatre history, contemporary performance and creative pedagogy, and is currently completing a short biography of Sam Wanamaker, founder of the Globe. His work has appeared in publications including The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare, The Blackwell Companion to Shakespeare and Performance and Shakespeare Survey. He is the co-founder of wwww.yearofshakespeare.com and www.reviewingshakespeare.com.

Summary

Ranging from Garrick's Macbeth in the 1740s to the World Shakespeare Festival in 2012, this is an engaging account of the ways in which theatre critics have responded to Shakespearean performance. Prescott provides new interpretative methods and case studies of great interest to students of Shakespeare, theatre and media studies.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Prescott, Paul (Dr Prescott, Prescott Paul
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.10.2013
• EAN: 9781107021495
• ISBN: 978-1-107-02149-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean