Players of Shakespeare 2 - Further Essays in Shakespearean Performance By Players With Royal

Klappentext This is the second volume of essays by actors with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Fourteen actors describe the Shakespearean roles they played in productions between 1982 and 1987. Each gives a unique insight into the preparation and performance of a major Shakespearean role and how a character is created through responding to Shakespeare's text, within the context of a particular director's conception and the environment established by the designer. Zusammenfassung This is the second volume of essays by actors with the Royal Shakespeare Company. 14 actors describe the Shakespearean roles they have played in productions between 1982 and 1987! including Kenneth Branagh! Ben Kingsley! Frances Barber! and David Suchet. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Foreword Russell Jackson; Introduction Daniel Massey; The Duke in Measure for Measure Edward Petherbridge; Armado in Love's Labour's Lost Ian McDiarmid; Shylock in The Merchant of Venice Fiona Shaw and Juliet Stevenson; Celia and Rosalind in As You Like It Alan Rickman; Jacques in As You Like It Zoe Wanamaker; Viola in Twelfth Night Kenneth Branagh; Henry V Roger Allam; Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet Niamh Cusack; Juliet in Romeo and Juliet Frances Barber; Ophelia in Hamlet Antony Sher; The Fool in King Lear Ben Kingsley; Othello David Suchet; Iago in Othello; Production credits; Further reading.

Product details

• Authors: Professor Russell Smallwood Jackson, Russell Jackson, Russell Smallwood Jackson, Royal Shakespeare Company
• Assisted by: Russell Jackson (Editor), Robert Smallwood (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.10.1989
• EAN: 9780521389037
• ISBN: 978-0-521-38903-7
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Players of Shakespeare
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies