Antony and Cleopatra

Informationen zum Autor Carol Chillington Rutter is Professor of English at the University of Warwick Klappentext This books looks at Antony and Cleopatra in performance from 1606 to 2018, examining how actors, directors and designers pick up the play's themes of desire and delinquency, exoticism and erotic politics to locate the most ambituous love story ever told in a new present. Is the play tragedy? Comedy? Farce? Rutter shows it's all three. Zusammenfassung This books looks at Antony and Cleopatra in performance from 1606 to 2018! examining how actors! directors and designers pick up the play's themes of desire and delinquency! exoticism and erotic politics to locate the most ambituous love story ever told in a new present. Is the play tragedy? Comedy? Farce? Rutter shows it's all three. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: A play that 'approves the common liar'1 'That time? O times!': The Jacobean Antony and Cleopatra 2 'Famous patterns of unlawful love': Antony and Cleopatra , 1677-19313 'Wogs exit nearest way': Glen Byam Shaw, Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, 19534 'By certain scales i'th' pyramid': Taking the Measure of Antony and Cleopatra , Royal Shakespeare Company 1972, 1978, 19825 Boying Greatness: The Citizens' Theatre (Glasgow), 1972 and Northern Broadsides (Halifax), 19956 'Back to Basics': Peter Hall, Olivier Theatre, National Theatre 19877 'Some Squeaking Cleopatra': Shakespeare's Globe, 19998 Estranging the crocodile: Foreign Antony and Cleopatra in Britain and abroad9 Restoring blackness: Josette Bushell-Mingo's Cleopatra, Royal Exchange Manchester (2005); Tarell Alvin McCraney's 'Radical Edit', RST, The Public, and GableStage (2013) Cast listsBibliography

Product details

• Authors: Carol Chillington Rutter, Carol Chillington Rutter
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9781526132499
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-3249-9
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Shakespeare in Performance
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, Theatre Studies, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean