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Zusatztext 'Oxford University Press offer a mix of engagingly written introductions to a variety of Topics intended largely for undergraduates. Each author has clearly been reading and listening to the most recent scholarship! but they wear their learning lightly. Informationen zum Autor Stanley Wells is general editor of the Oxford Shakespeare and co-editor of the Oxford Complete Works of Shakespeare. Klappentext Shakespeare in the Theatre offers a rich! varied! and wonderfully evocative collection of eyewitness accounts of Shakespearian performances over the centuries. Theatre generates an excitement that stimulates fine prose: here are Hazlitt's famous accounts of Edmund Kean as Richard III andHamlet! Bernard Shaw on Forbes-Robertson's Hamlet and his hilarious descriptions of Augustin Daly's productions! Max Beerbohm on Gordon Craig! and Kenneth Tynan on Olivier and Wolfit. Here too are lesser-known pieces by great writers: the German novelist Theodor Fontane on Charles Kean! Evelyn Waughon Olivier! Virginia Woolf on Twelfth Night at the Old Vic. Taken together these pieces represent an appreciation of the work of the finest Shakespearian interpreters! and a survey of changing styles of Shakespearian production--ranging right across the canon--from the seventeenth century to thepresent! in England! America! and further afield. The collection also provides extensive coverage of the postwar period right up to the present day! with vivid accounts of landmark productions by directors such as Peter Brook! Peter Hall! John Barton! Deborah Warner! Trevor Nunn! and Declan Donellan. Stanley Wells introduces the volume with anessay on "Shakespeare and the Theatre Critics!" and supplies each review with a helpful headnote and explanatory references. This unique compendium will delight all lovers of the Bard and avid theater-goers of all kinds. Zusammenfassung 'Oxford Shakespeare Topics' (General Editors Peter Holland and Stanley Wells) provide students, teachers, and interested readers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship, including some general anthologies relating to Shakespeare....
