A year of Shakespeare : re-living the World Shakespeare Festival / edited by Paul Edmondson, Paul Prescott, Erin Sullivan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edmondson, Paul, editor.

Prescott, Paul, 1974- editor.

Sullivan, Erin (Astrologer), editor.

Series:

Arden Shakespeare (Critical studies)

Arden Shakespeare

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drama festivals--England--London--History--21st century.

Drama festivals.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Dramatic production--History--21st century.

Shakespeare, William.

England--London.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Distribution:

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury, 2020.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'A Year of Shakespeare' gives a uniquely comprehensive, expert and exciting overview of the largest Shakespeare festival the world has ever known: The World Shakespeare Festival, 2012. This is the only book fully to document all 74 productions which formed part of the festival in 2012 through well-informed, lively and accessible reviews and other short pieces of related interest.

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of contributors; List of illustrations; Note on names and textual references; Foreword; PART ONE: Openings; Olympic Performance in the Year of Shakespeare; Nightwatch Constables and Domineering Pedants: the past, present and future of Shakespearean theatre reviewing; PART TWO: The Reviews; All's Well That Ends Well; Antony and Cleopatra; As You Like It; The Comedy of Errors; Coriolanus; Coriolan/us; Cymbeline; Hamlet; The Rest is Silence; Henry IV Part 1; Henry IV Part 2; Henry V; Henry VI Part 1; Henry VI Part 2.

Henry VI Part 3Henry VIII; Julius Caesar; I, Cinna (The Poet); King John; King Lear; Love's Labour's Lost; Macbeth; 2008: Macbeth; Macbeth: Leïla & Ben; Measure for Measure; The Merchant of Venice; The Merry Wives of Windsor; Falstaff; A Midsummer Night's Dream; A Midsummer Night's Dream (As You Like It); Much Ado About Nothing; Othello; Otello; Desdemona; Pericles; The Rape of Lucrece; Richard II; Richard III; Two Roses for Richard III; Romeo and Juliet; Romeo and Juliet in Baghdad; West Side Story; The Taming of the Shrew; The Tempest; Y Storm; Timon of Athens; Titus Andronicus.

Troilus and CressidaTwelfth Night; The Two Gentlemen of Verona; Venus and Adonis; The Winter's Tale; In a Pickle; Events and adaptations inspired by multiple plays or themes; The Hollow Crown: Richard II; The Hollow Crown: Henry IV Part 1; The Hollow Crown: Henry IV Part 2; The Hollow Crown: Henry V; The Dark Side of Love; Forests; A Soldier in Every Son; Shakespeare: Staging the World; A Tender Thing; PART THREE: Endings; Epilogue; Appendix 1: Productions by Country and Language; Appendix 2: Productions by Date of Opening Performance; Notes; Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4742-4628-1

OCLC:

1201426699