John Russell-Brown

Studying Shakespeare in Performance (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137268242
• Artikelnr.: 62729470

Autorenporträt

JOHN RUSSELL BROWN is an Honorary Visiting Professor at University College London, and has held chairs of English and Theatre in both England and the USA. He has directed renaissance and contemporary plays in student and professional theatres: for twelve years he was an Associate Director of the Royal National Theatre. He is series editor for The Shakespeare Handbooks and Theatres of the World and has edited and contributed to the Oxford Illustrated History of Theatre. Among his previous publications are Shakespeare: The Tragedies, Shakespeare and the Theatrical Event and Shakespeare Dancing, all published by Palgrave Macmillan.

Inhaltsangabe

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.