Macbeth / Bernice W. Kliman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kliman, Bernice W.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Shakespeare in performance

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Macbeth.

Shakespeare, William.

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

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Physical Description:

xiv, 242 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2004.

Summary:

In this expanded analysis of Macbeth in performance, Bernice W. Kliman examines a number of major productions of the play on stage and screen, inviting the reader to contemplate and compare directors' and actors' choices for what is arguably Shakespeare's most compelling play. Kliman's in-depth analysis of Orson Welles's 1948 film version as well as his earlier stage production, Roman Polanski's famous film, and several different television versions from America and Britain, offers an invaluable guide to the most prominent performances across a range of media. With Paul Harvey, she also considers Yukio Ninagawa's staging, providing an exciting and novel Japanese perspective on the play for Western audiences. This revised and updated second edition features new material on actors Macready and Forrest, directors Ron Daniels and Akira Kurosawa and a chapter on Verdi's opera by Graham Bradshaw, in addition to the existing considerations of Judi Dench, Olivier and Leigh, Trevor Nunn, Jane Lapotaire and Ian McKellen to name just a few.

Contents:

I The protagonists and the production 1

1606-23 1

Davenant and Betterton 16

David Garrick 23

Sarah Siddons 28

Macready and Forrest 39

II Operatic Macbeths: what we could still learn from Verdi / Graham Bradshaw 44

Conical hats and broomsticks 44

Thinking about Macbeth 48

Performance as representation: Metaphor versus mimesis 54

III The protagonists: chiasmus interpretations on stage 62

Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh / directed by Glen Byam Shaw 62

IV The protagonists: chiasmus interpretations on television 80

Maurice Evans and Judith Anderson / directed by George Schaefer 81

Eric Porter and Janet Suzman / directed by John Gorrie 89

Nicol Williamson and Jane Lapotaire / directed by Jack Gold 101

V The production: visionary directors on stage and screen 112

Orson Welles's 1936 'Voodoo' Macbeth and its reincarnation on film 112

Trevor Nunn's production with Ian McKellen and Judi Dench 127

Ron Daniels's 1999 ensemble production 147

Ninagawa Macbeth: fusion of Japanese and Western theatrical styles / Paul A. S. Harvey, Bernice W. Kliman 159

VI The production: visionary directors on film 183

Visual poetry in Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood 183

Roman Polanski 190

Epilogue: Making Macbeth wholly evil 217

A Some significant twentieth-century productions of Macbeth 222

B Major actors and staff for the twentieth-century productions discussed 223

C Some significant recordings of Verdi's Macbeth 227.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-237) and index.

ISBN:

0719062284

0719062292

OCLC:

53388467