Staging Restoration Comedy

The Royal Shakespeare Company, 1967-2019
2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-52208-6
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 90 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 253 g

Since its 1967 production of Vanbrugh’s the Royal Shakespeare Company has been the world’s leading producer of Restoration Comedies. This book is the first to document and critique the company’s history of engagement with that repertoire. It reviews the spaces in which productions have been performed, design principles, casting, voicing, textual adaptation, musical direction, actor perspectives, and the problems of how to confront, adopt or depart from received notions of Restoration style. It goes on to posit that, for all the RSC’s explorations of Restoration Comedy, the company has maintained the repertoire as a fringe interest played out in niche spaces, while recycling many of the assumptions it claims to challenge, and that what is needed is the writer-led intervention seen in RSC and National Theatre adaptations of French drama from the same period. Only then can Restoration Comedy begin to engage wider audiences in new sites of political, historical andcultural meaning.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roberts, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theaterregie, Theaterproduktion
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter One: Introduction.-Chapter Two: Twin Custodians? .-Chapter Three: Spaces and Practices .-Chapter Four: Performance History

.-Chapter Five: A Manifesto    

Über Autor(innen)

David Roberts is Professor of English at Birmingham City University, UK. He has published numerous books and articles about Restoration and earlier seventeenth-century theatre, including the monographs (1989), (2010), (2014) and (2018), and editions, including (2013), Congreve’s (2020) and (2022). David has published articles in, among others, and Recent commissioned chapters include essays for (2022)(2024)and(2024)