Shakespeare in Performance
Castings and Metamorphoses
Published on 28. July 1993
Book
Hardback
184 pages
978-0-333-58367-8 (ISBN)
Description
These studies of Shakespeare in performance take stage history as a means of knowing the play. Half of these studies deal with casting - doubling, chorus and the crowd, the star of "Hamlet" and "Measure for Measure". The transformations of "The Tempest" and dramatis personae are analyzed. Audience control is studied in "King Lear", through Cordelia's asides, in "Richard II" with its subversive laughter and in "Henry IV" with its scenic alternation of pleasure and duty. Performance is the realization of identity. The book draws on major productions as recent as 1991/92. By the author of "On Directing Shakespeare", "Shakespeare and Social Class" and "Changing Styles in Shakespeare".
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
360 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-58367-8 (9780333583678)
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07/2016
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Content
Hamlet's doubles; doubling - theory and practice; casting the chorus; "Coriolanus" - casting the crowd; casting "Hamlet" - two traditions; Lear's system and Cordelia's aside - leading the audience; laughter in "King Richard II" - the subplot of mood; metamorphoses of the audience; dramatis personae; "Measure for Measure" - casting the star; within the Bermuda triangle - reflections on "The Tempest"; Falstaff's space - the tavern as pastoral.