Shakespeare in the Spanish theatre : 1772 to the present / Keith Gregor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gregor, Keith (Graham Keith), 1960- author.

Series:

Continuum Shakespeare studies.

Continuum Shakespeare studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Appreciation--Spain.

Theater--Spain--History.

Theater.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (197 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Shakespeare in the Spanish Theatre offers an account of Shakespeare's presence on the Spanish stage, from a production of the first Spanish rendering of Jean-François Ducis's Hamlet in 1772 to the creative and controversial work of directors like Calixto Bieito and Alex Rigola in the early 21st century. Despite a largely indirect entrance into the culture, Shakespeare has gone on to become the best and known and most widely performed of all foreign playwrights. What is more, by the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st century there have been more productions of Shakespeare than of all of

Contents:

Introduction

The taste for tragedy

False beginnings

The birth of chraracter

Disaster and regeneration

The Franco years

The transition and beyond

Shakespeare on the "periphery"

New Horizons.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [171]-178) and index.

ISBN:

9786612466663

9781472555298

1472555295

9781282466661

1282466666

9781441143983

144114398X

OCLC:

601821106