Designers' Shakespeare / edited by John Russell Brown and Stephen Di Benedetto.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brown, John Russell, editor.

Di Benedetto, Stephen, editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

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--20th century.

Theaters--Stage-setting and scenery--History--20th century.

Theaters.

Costume--History.

Costume.

Theaters--Stage-setting and scenery.

History.

Physical Description:

xix, 200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.

Contents:

Preface

Looking at contemporary design practice and Shakespeare / Stephen Di Benedetto

"Here is my space": Josef Svoboda's Shakespearean imagination / Christian M. Billing

Scenography at the Royal Shakespeare Company 1963-1968: towards an empty space / Liam Doona

Karl-Ernst Herrmann: unfolding Shakespeare's space / Klaus Van Den Berg

Ming Cho Lee / Arnold Aronson

Alison Chitty: "the public sketch" / Hilary Baxter

Robert Wilson / Maria Shevtsova

The form of (her) intent: Catherine Zuber's costume design for Nicholas Hytner's Twelfth night (1998) / Brandin Barón-Nusbaum

Designing sound for Shakespeare: connecting past and present / Adrian Curtin

Beyond language: performing "true-meant design;" "that risky and dangerous negotiation between a doing... and a thing done" / Dorita Hannah

Afterword.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780415618007

0415618002

9780415525077

0415525071

OCLC:

767569457

Publisher Number:

40026189046