The Oxford book of theatrical anecdotes / edited by Giles Brandreth.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brandreth, Gyles Daubeney, 1948- editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--Anecdotes.

Theater.

Genre:

Anecdotes.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 797 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.

Summary:

The ultimate anthology of theatrical anecdotes, edited by lifelong theatre-lover Gyles Brandreth in the Oxford tradition, and providing a wonderfully entertaining and revealing portrait of the world of the theatre across four hundred years.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Act One Players from William Shakespeare to Henry Irving

`The actors are at hand and by their show you shall know all' A Midsummer Night's Dream

Act Two Players from Sarah Bernhardt to Tallulah Bankhead

`Read the names of the actors, and so grow to a point' A Midsummer Night's Dream

Act Three Players from Ralph Richardson to Naeem Hyat

`The players cannot keep counsel; they'll tell all'

Hamlet

Interval

Audiences and Critics

`Pardon us the interruption'

Richard III

Act Four Playwrights, Producers, and Directors

`The play's the thing'

Act Five Unforeseen Circumstances

`The night has been unruly'

Macbeth

Epilogue

`And now farewell

The Tempest.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

9780198749585

0198749589

OCLC:

1138499162

Publisher Number:

99991368027