Shakespeare in the Theatre: Patrice Chereau

Patrice Chereau (1944 - 2013) was one of France''s leading directors in the theatre and on film and a major influence on Shakespearean performance. He is internationally known for memorable productions of both drama and opera. His life-long companionship with Shakespeare began in 1970 when his innovative Richard II made the young director famous overnight and caused his translator to denounce him publicly as an iconoclast, for a production mixing "music-hall, circus, and pankration". After this break, Chereau read Shakespeare''s texts assiduously, "line by line and word by word", with another renowned poet, Yves Bonnefoy.Drawing on new interviews with many of Chereau''s collaborators, this study explores a unique theatre maker''s interpretations of Shakespeare in relation to the European tradition and to his wider body of work on stage and film, to establish his profound influence on other producers of Shakespeare.>

About the author

Dominique Goy-Blanquet is Professor Emeritus at the Université de Picardie and member of the editorial board of En attendant Nadeau. Her works include Shakespeare’s Early History Plays (Oxford UP, 2003), Shakespeare et l’invention de l’histoire (3rd ed. Garnier, 2014), Côté cour, côté justice: Shakespeare et l’invention du droit (Garnier, 2016), essays for Shakespeare Survey, Cambridge Companion, Moreana, Law and Humanities, the editions of Joan of Arc: A Saint for all Reasons (Ashgate, 2003), Richard Marienstras’s posthumous Shakespeare et le désordre du monde (Gallimard, 2012), and with François Laroque Shakespeare, combien de prétendants ? (Thierry Marchaisse, 2016). Her Shakespeare in the Theatre: Patrice Chéreau, was published by Arden/Bloomsbury in 2018.

Product details

• Authors: Dominique Goy-Blanquet, Dominique (University of Picardie Goy-Blanquet, Goy-Blanquet Dominique
• Assisted by: Farah Karim Cooper (Editor), Bridget Escolme (Editor), Peter Holland (Editor)
• Publisher: Arden shakespeare
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9781474273916
• ISBN: 978-1-4742-7391-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Shakespeare in the Theatre; Shakespeare in the Theatre
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; France, English, DRAMA / Shakespeare, DRAMA / European / French, Theatre: individual actors & directors, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Individual Film Directors, Film-Makers, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Theatre direction and production, Literary studies: plays and playwrights