King Lear

ISBN-13: 9781403986887 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 168 str.

John Russell Brown

Opis

An introductory guide to King Lear in performance offering a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commentary, contextual documents, a brief history of the text and first performances, case studies of key productions, a survey of film and TV adaptations, a sampling of critical opinion and annotated further reading.

Spis treści

General Editor's Preface.- Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Texts and Early Performances.- Commentary.- The Play's Sources and Cultural Context.- Key Productions and Performances.- The Play on Screen.- Critical Assessments.- Further Reading.- Index.

O autorze

JOHN RUSSELL BROWN is Honorary Professor at University College London, UK, and has held chairs of English and Theatre in both England and the USA, directed plays in student and professional theatres, and was Associate Director of the Royal National Theatre. His previous publications include Shakespeare: The Tragedies, Shakespeare and the Theatrical Event and Shakespeare Dancing, all of which are published by Palgrave Macmillan.

Blurb

King Lear is widely considered to be Shakespeare's greatest and most challenging play. This unique volume features:
• a scene-by-scene commentary that traces the play's on-stage life and an audience's progressive experience of performance
• a close reading of the text that leads to a re-assessment of the tragedy's achievement
• discussion of the play's sources, and its cultural and political context
• accounts of major performances on stage and screen, and of notable critical assessments.

Inspiring and stimulating, this essential study of King Lear in both text and performance offers a path to a fuller knowledge of Shakespeare's verbal, theatrical and imaginative art.