Studying Shakespeare in Performance

John Russell Brown is arguably the most influential scholar in the field of Shakespeare in performance. This collection brings together and makes accessible his most important writings across the past half-century or so. Ranging across space, words, audiences, directors and themes, the book maps John Russell Brown''s search for a fuller understanding of Shakespeare''s plays in performance. New introductory notes for each chapter give a fascinating insight into his critical and scholarly journey. Together the essays provide an authoritative and engaging account of how to study Shakespeare''s plays as texts for performance. Drawing readers into a wide variety of approaches and debates, this book will be important and provocative reading for anyone studying Shakespeare or staging one of his plays.>

Sommario

Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I: STUDY
Theatrical Study and Edition of the Plays
Research in the Service of Theatre
Writing about Plays in Performance
PART II: WORDS AND ACTIONS
The Nature of Speech in the Plays
Acting in the Plays
Unspoken Thoughts and Subtextual Meanings
Using Space
PART III: PRODUCTIONS
Free Shakespeare
Representing Sexuality
Violence and Sensationalism
PART IV: DIRECTORS
Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet
Three Kinds of Shakespeare
PART V: AUDIENCES
Playgoing and Participation
Asian Theatres and European Shakespeares
Conclusion: Anyone's Shakespeare
Index.

Info autore

John Russell Brown

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: John Russell Brown, BROWN JOHN RUSSELL, John Russell-Brown
• Editore: Macmillan
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 14.07.2011
• EAN: 9780230273733
• ISBN: 978-0-230-27373-3
• Pagine: 224
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; B, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Early Modern and Renaissance Literature, Literature, Modern, Europe;theatre;William Shakespeare