Studying Shakespeare in Performance

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011

AvJohn Russell-Brown

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2011-07-14
Mått146 x 218 x 20 mm
Vikt440 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor224
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9780230273733

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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.

AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPART I: STUDYTheatrical Study and Edition of the PlaysResearch in the Service of TheatreWriting about Plays in PerformancePART II: WORDS AND ACTIONSThe Nature of Speech in the PlaysActing in the PlaysUnspoken Thoughts and Subtextual MeaningsUsing SpacePART III: PRODUCTIONSFree ShakespeareRepresenting SexualityViolence and SensationalismPART IV: DIRECTORSFranco Zeffirelli's Romeo and JulietThree Kinds of ShakespearePART V: AUDIENCESPlaygoing and ParticipationAsian Theatres and European ShakespearesConclusion: Anyone's ShakespeareIndex.

'John Russell Brown almost single-handedly created the discipline of Shakespeare performance studies, as well as being directly involved in production during an important period. This will be a very useful book for students of Shakespeare performance and criticism, as well as the history of that discipline.' - James Loehlin, Associate Professor of English, University of Texas at Austin, USA 'For those who enjoy a scholarly study of Shakespearean performances, for theatre practitioners, and for those who only partake as an audience, this book will give the reader much to agree and disagree with and should be a very rewarding study.' -Speaking English