Talk:Shakespeare in performance

message: Nice article! I don't like the title 'Shakespearean performances' though; 'Shakespearean' means 'like Shakespeare', whereas this article is about performances of Shakespeare. In academic study, this subject is called "Shakespeare in Performance" (try googling it and you'll see what I mean). I think that would be better. The Drama Llama 17:40, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Doesn't matter overly to me. Right now Shakespeare in performance is a redirect to this article, but we can easily turn that around. However, let's wait a bit to get comments from others and make sure the consensus is to do this. Best,--Alabamaboy 18:05, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done.--Alabamaboy 00:36, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment

message: This article is great! Is there any way to add more recent performances? The article kind of trails off in the middle of the 1930s... Wrad 01:08, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the kind words. I'll see what I can come up with.--Alabamaboy 14:23, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  20th-21st century 

message: This is an excellent beginning to a very broad topic - nice work. I think, though, that a few improvements will make it even better.
Missing information:
*The article contains a lot of good information on British performances and some about Europe and America, but what about the rest of the world? Since Shakespeare has been translated into so many languages, I would assume that his plays have been performed outside of the Western world.
**This is a good point. I haven't seen much at all on wikipedia about foreign performances of Shakespeare. I may take this under wing. Wrad 20:24, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: GA fail

message: I've substituted the image of Betterton as Hamlet for the stage picture that was there before; my reasoning was that the picture didn't, unfortunately, illustrate the caption (the apron stage being virtually invisible). There's a great drawing by Walter Hodge of a restoration theatre, but I presume it's still in copyright (besides not being of Shakespeare specifically). 
I moved the picture of Garrick as Richard III down to the c18th section, rather than Restoration. I also moved the copy from the Restoration section about him down, though its integration is a bit clumsy at the moment. If anyone can improve it, so much the better. 
I've also added the delightful Cushman sisters' R&J to the c19th section; I like the way Juliet looks a bit like young Victoria.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by DionysosProteus (talk • contribs) 03:38, August 29, 2007 (UTC) 
DionysosProteus 20:14, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image switcheroo 

message: A note to myself as much as a request to others: there are (at least) two major Shakespeare productions from the twentieth century missing: Peter Brook's A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968?) and Peter Stein's As You Like It. The building of Shakespeare's Globe and its unquestioned success is also a major development. Need to talk about Shakespearean theatre companies like the RSC too. 
Note also: I disagree strongly with the proposal above to remove the "On Screen" section. The interrelationship between stage and screen is a major part of contemporary Shakespeare production, and the relationship between text, stage, and screen is as vital a part in our culture's shift from a literate to a "post-literate", audio-visually-centered one, as the text-stage relationship was in Shakespeare's shift from an oral to a literate culture. DionysosProteus 13:41, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  To be developed 

message: Plays are meant to be spoken; yet the article has nothing about the sounds of Shakespeare's language.  There has been a wide variety of spoken English over the last half millenium and in many parts of the world.  Shakespeare lived near the beginning of the great vowel shift; so no modern English can reproduce the original pronunciation of his plays.  Examples:
The doggerel in As You Like It in which "Rosalind" is rhymed with (seemingly) every possible word ending in "ind" is often played for more comedy than Shakespeare intended, by mispronouncing modern English to force the rhymes, which were not faulty in his time.
Ironically, although American English comes somewhat closer to Shakespeare's English, American productions often mistakenly assume that modern British pronunciation is more "authentic", since Shakespeare was English.
British productions often presume that Shakespeare's characters would speak in the British class accents that would be heard from modern Britons.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.86.92.198 (talk) 14:13, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Phonology 

message: So, are we to believe that the only relevant 21st century staging of Shakespeare is the "Jude Law Hamlet", as it occupies 98% of the section, with detailed cast and performance history? (the remainder being a gracious mention of the Propeller company...) -- megA (talk) 22:26, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  21st Century?