Edmondson / Escolme / Hampton-Reeves Shakespeare and the Making of Theatre

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-137-28493-8
Verlag: Macmillan Education
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Ebook (PDF)

A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of literature. Leading performance critics dismantle Shakespeare's texts, identifying theatrical cues in ways which develop understanding of the underlying theatricality of Shakespeare's plays and stimulate further performances.

Zielgruppe

Lower undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Edmondson, P.

Edmondson, Paul

Escolme, Bridget

Hampton-Reeves, Stuart

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; B.Escolme & S.Hampton-Reeves .- Textual Clues and Performance Choices; M.J.Kidnie .- Openings; P.Holland .- Entrances & Exits; R.Conkie .- Endings; P.Prescott .- Visual Scores; C.Carson .- Props; F.Karim-Cooper .- Talking Heads; C.Chillington Rutter .- Costume; B.Escolme .- Fighting; S.Hampton-Reeves .- Audiences; S.Werner .- Sound; P.A.Skantze .- Silence; R.Shaughnessy .- Afterword; J.R.Brown .- Bibliography.- Index.

Über Autor(innen)

BRIDGET ESCOLME Senior Lecturer in the Department of Drama at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. Her publications include Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self and Antony and Cleopatra in the Palgrave Shakespeare Handbooks series. She has worked as a performer and a dramaturge in the UK and USA.STUART HAMPTON-REEVES Professor of Research-informed Teaching at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. He is the author of Shakespeare in Performance: the Henry VI Plays, Shakespeare's Historiesand Counter-Histories and Measure for Measure in the Shakespeare Handbooks series. He was Performance Editor for the journal Shakespeare from 2004-7 and is currently Treasurer of the British Shakespeare Association.