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SHAKESPEARE IN THE THEATRE
AN ANTHOLOGY OF CRITICISM |
| By: |
Stanley Wells (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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£83.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0198711778 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780198711773 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
30 October, 1997 |
| Series: |
Oxford Shakespeare Topics |
| Pages: |
352 |
| Description: |
Shakespeare in the Theatre offers a rich, varied, and wonderfully evocative collection of reviews of Shakespearian performances from early times to the present. Theatre generates an excitement that stimulates fine prose, and here we have accounts by major writers that include:- Hazlitt on Edmund Kean as Richard III- George Bernard Shaw on Forbes-Robertson's Hamlet- Evelyn Waugh on Olivier- Virginia Woolf on Twelfth Night at the Old VicRanging right across the Shakespearian canon, these pieces represent a survey of landmark productions and performances from Garrick to Peter Brook, Betterton to McKellen, Siddons to Dench. The reviews are helpfully introduced and annotated by the editor, Stanley Wells. |
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Shakespeare in the Theatre offers a rich, varied, and wonderfully evocative collection of eye-witness accounts of Shakespearian performances over the centuries. Theatre generates an excitement that stimulates fine prose: here are Hazlitt's famous accounts of Edmund Kean as Richard III and Hamlet, Bernard Shaw on Forbes-Robertson's Hamlet and his hilarious descriptions of Augustin Daly's productions, Max Beerbohm on Gordon Craig, and Kenneth Tynan on Olivier and Wolfit. Here too are lesser-known pieces by great writers: the German novelist Theodor Fontane on Charles Kean, Evelyn Waugh on Olivier, Virginia Woolf on Twelfth Night at the Old Vic. Taken together these pieces represent an appreciation of the work of the finest Shakespearian interpreters, and a survey of changing styles of Shakespearian production - ranging right across the canon - from the seventeenth century to the present, in England, America, and further afield. The post-war period is amply represented, right up to the present day, with vivid accounts of landmark productions by directors such as Peter Brook, Peter Hall, John Barton, Deborah Warner, Trevor Nunn, and Declan Donnellan.Stanley Wells introduces the volume with an essay on 'Shakespeare and the Theatre Critics', and supplies each review with a helpful headnote and explanatory references. |
| Illustrations: |
8 pp plates |
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UK |
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Clarendon Press |
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