Staging Restoration comedy : the Royal Shakespeare Company, 1967-2019 / David Roberts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roberts, David, 1960- author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Palgrave pivot

Palgrave Pivot

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Theater.

Theater--Great Britain--History--21st century.

Comedies of manners, English.

English drama--Restoration, 1660-1700.

English drama.

Royal Shakespeare Company.

Physical Description:

ix, 90 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland, [2024]

Summary:

"This book is the first to document and critique the company's history of engagement with that repertoire. It reviews the spaces in which productions have been performed, design principles, casting, voicing, textual adaptation, musical direction, actor perspectives, and the problems of how to confront, adopt or depart from received notions of Restoration style. It goes on to posit that, for all the RSC's explorations of Restoration Comedy, the company has maintained the repertoire as a fringe interest played out in niche spaces, while recycling many of the assumptions it claims to challenge, and that what is needed is the writer-led intervention seen in RSC and National Theatre adaptations of French drama from the same period. Only then can Restoration Comedy begin to engage wider audiences in new sites of political, historical and cultural meaning." -- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3031522087

9783031522086

OCLC:

1415239312

Publisher Number:

90102329738