Studying Shakespeare in Performance
By: John Russell Brown
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780230273740
Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism; Stage history; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Dramatic production
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: PART I: STUDY; title: Theatre Citicism and Literary Criticism; title: Research in the Service of Theatre; title: Writing about Shakespeare's Plays in Performance; title: PART II: WORDS AND ACTIONS; title: The Nature of Speech in the Plays; title: Acting in the Plays; title: Shakespeare's Subtext; title: Shakespeare's Use of Space; title: PART III: PRODUCTIONS; title: Free Shakespeare; title: Representing Sexuality; title: Violence and Sensationalism; title: PART IV: DIRECTORS; title: Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet; title: Three Directors; title: PART V: AUDIENCES; title: Play-going and Participation; title: Asian Theatres and European Shakespeares; title: Index.