Studying Shakespeare in performance / John Russell Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, John Russell.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Dramatic production.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

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

Physical Description:

viii, 231 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Summary:

"John Russell Brown is arguably the most influential scholar in the field of Shakespeare in performance. This collection brings together, and makes accessible, his most important writing across the last 40 years. Together these essays provide an authoritative and engaging account of how to study Shakespeare's plays as texts for performance"--Publisher description.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I: STUDY

Theatre Citicism and Literary Criticism

Research in the Service of Theatre

Writing about Shakespeare's Plays in Performance

PART II: WORDS AND ACTIONS

The Nature of Speech in the Plays

Acting in the Plays

Shakespeare's Subtext

Shakespeare's Use of Space

PART III: PRODUCTIONS

Free Shakespeare

Representing Sexuality

Violence and Sensationalism

PART IV: DIRECTORS

Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet

Three Directors

PART V: AUDIENCES

Play-going and Participation

Asian Theatres and European Shakespeares

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780230273740

0230273742

OCLC:

746302038