Looking at Shakespeare
Subtitle: A Visual History of Twentieth-Century Performance
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 11, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 434
ISBN-13: 9780521780575
Subjects: Theatre, drama; Theater; Pictorial works; History; Theaters; Performing Arts; Television - History & Criticism; Performing Arts/Dance; Stage-setting and scenery; Shakespeare, William,; Theater - General; 1800-1950; Performing Arts / Theater / General; Shakespeare, William; Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Stage history--1950---Pictorial works; 20th century; 1564-1616; 1950-; Stage history
First sentence: Just before Shakespeare's birthday in 1978 the audience in his famous hometown looked at an unusual sight: a setting for The Taming of the Shrew that would have seemed proper in sixteenth-century Italy, taken almost directly from Serlio's example of the correct and decorous design for comedy.