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Studying Shakespeare in performance
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Title
Studying Shakespeare in performance / John Russell Brown.
ISBN
9780230273740 (pbk.)
0230273742 (pbk.)
9780230273733
0230273734
Published
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Physical Description
viii, 231 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary
"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 writing across the last 40 years. Together these essays provide an authoritative and engaging account of how to study Shakespeare's plays as texts for performance"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 17, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I: STUDY
Theatre Citicism and Literary Criticism
Research in the Service of Theatre
Writing about Shakespeare's Plays in Performance
PART II: WORDS AND ACTIONS
The Nature of Speech in the Plays
Acting in the Plays
Shakespeare's Subtext
Shakespeare's Use of Space
PART III: PRODUCTIONS
Free Shakespeare
Representing Sexuality
Violence and Sensationalism
PART IV: DIRECTORS
Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet
Three Directors
PART V: AUDIENCES
Play-going and Participation
Asian Theatres and European Shakespeares
Index.
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