The Cambridge companion to Shakespeare on stage / edited by Stanley Wells and Sarah Stanton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wells, Stanley, 1930-

Stanton, Sarah.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Stage history.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Physical Description:

xvi, 322 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Companion to Shakespeare on stage

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Summary:

A Companion addressing all aspects of Shakespeare in performance.

Contents:

1 Shakespeare plays on Renaissance stages / Gary Taylor 1

2 Improving Shakespeare: from the Restoration to Garrick / Jean I. Marsden 21

3 Romantic Shakespeare / Jane Moody 37

4 Pictorial Shakespeare / Richard W. Schoch 58

5 Reconstructive Shakespeare: reproducing Elizabethan and Jacobean stages / Marion O'connor 76

6 Twentieth-century performance: the Stratford and London companies / Robert Smallwood 98

7 The tragic actor and Shakespeare / Simon Williams 118

8 The comic actor and Shakespeare / Peter Thomson 137

9 Women and Shakespearean performance / Penny Gay 155

10 International Shakespeare / Anthony B. Dawson 174

11 Touring Shakespeare / Peter Holland 194

12 Shakespeare on the political stage in the twentieth century / Wilhelm Hortmann 212

13 Shakespeare in North America / Michael A. Morrison 230

14 Shakespeare on the stages of Asia / John Gillies, Ryuta Minami, Ruru Li, Poonam Trivedi 259

15 Shakespeare and Africa / Martin Banham, Roshni Mooneeram, Jane Plastow 284.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-309) and index.

ISBN:

0521792959

052179711X

OCLC:

48140822