Staging Shakespeare : a director's guide to preparing a production / Brian Kulick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kulick, Brian, author.

Contributor:

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.

Theater--Production and direction.

Theater.

Drama--Production and direction.

Drama.

Physical Description:

xii, 216 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Metheun Drama, 2022.

Summary:

"This book draws back the curtain and shows how the antique machinery of Shakespeare's theatre works, helping the director to prepare for the myriad challenges they will face in mounting a production. The imaginative time frame begins the moment you learn you'll be directing a play by Shakespeare. Our narrative clock starts ticking from the point you put down the phone and stops when you arrive at the rehearsal hall to begin your first table read. So much of what will be the success or failure of a director's production rests on this work that is done before rehearsals even begin." -- From back cover

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE "It Shall be Inventoried": A Brief Look at Shakespeare's Dramatic World

1. "Now Sir, What is Your Text?": Which Shakespeare? Which Text?

2. "And There is Much Music": Reading the Visible and Invisible Score of Shakespeare

3. "Wherefore Are These Things Hid?": Pattern Recognition in Shakespeare's Plays

4. "Your Actions Are My Dreams": Structure and Shakespeare

5. "Stand and Unfold Yourself": Revelation of Character in the Works of Shakespeare

pt. TWO "What Means This, My Lord?": Toward a Fourfold Reading of Shakespeare

Introduction Standing in the Textual Garden of Forking Paths

6. "To Sing a Song That Old Was Sung": Plain Readings

7. "You Speak a Language That I Understand Not": Allegorical Readings

8. "A Natural Perspective That is and is Not": Analogical Readings

9. "Is Not This Strange?": Abstract Readings

pt. THREE "Come, Give Us a Taste of Your Quality": Practical Matters

10. "What Say You?": Finding the Rhyme between Shakespeare, Yourself, and Your Time

11. "The Fall of a Sparrow": Shaping Shakespeare

12. "Brave New Worlds": Designing Shakespeare

13. "The World Must be Peopled": Auditions

14. "Resolve You For More Amazement": The First Day of Rehearsal and Beyond.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

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

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

1350201030

9781350201033

1350201022

9781350201026

OCLC:

1204343020