Love's Labour's Lost

ISBN-13: 9780230217911 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 192 str.

Oxford) Bate Jonathan (University of Oxford

Opis

From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a fresh new edition of Shakespeare's dazzling comedy.

This book includes:

* An introduction to Love's Labour's Lost by award-winning scholar Jonathan Bate
* The play - with clear explanatory notes on each page
* A scene-by-scene analysis
* An introduction to Shakespeare's career and the Elizabethan theatre
* A rich exploration of approaches to staging the play

The most enjoyable way to understand a Shakespeare play is to see it or participate in it. This book presents a historical overview of Love's Labour's Lost in performance, recommends film versions, takes a detailed look at specific productions and includes interviews with three leading Directors - Terry Hands, Liz Shipman and Gregory Doran- so that we may get a sense of the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible - a variety that gives Shakespeare his unique capacity to be reinvented and made 'our contemporary' four centuries after his death.

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Spis treści

Introduction to the Play.- Introduction to the Text.- Key Facts.- Love's Labour's Lost.- Textual Notes.- Scene-by-scene Analysis.- Love's Labour's Lost in Performance: The RSC and Beyond.- Four Centuries of Love's Labour's: An Overview.- At the Royal Shakespeare Company.- The Director's Cut: Interviews with Terry Hands and Liz Shipman.- Approaching Love's Labour's: Reflections by Gregory Doran.- Shakespeare's Career in the Theatre.- Shakespeare's Works: A Chronology.- Further Reading and Viewing.- Acknowledgements and Picture Credits

O autorze

JONATHAN BATE is Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature, University of Warwick, UK, and the editor of The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works. He has held visiting posts at Harvard, Yale and UCLA and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Fellow of the British Academy, an Honorary Fellow of St Catherine's College, Cambridge, and a Governor and Board member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. A prominent critic, award-winning biographer and broadcaster, he is the author of several books on Shakespeare, including The Genius of Shakespeare (Picador), which was praised by Sir Peter Hall, founder of the RSC, as "the best modern book on Shakespeare." In June 2006 he was awarded a CBE by HM The Queen 'for services to Higher Education'.

ERIC RASMUSSEN is Professor of English at the University of Nevada, USA, and the Textual Editor of The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works. He is co-editor of the Norton Anthology of English Renaissance Drama and has edited volumes in both the Arden Shakespeare and Oxford World's Classics series. He is the General Textual Editor of the Internet Shakespeare Editions project - one of the most visited Shakespeare websites in the world. For over nine years he has written the annual review of editions and textual studies for the Shakespeare Survey.

Blurb

From the Royal Shakespeare Company – a fresh new edition of Shakespeare's dazzling comedy.
 
This book includes:
               
*  An introduction to Love's Labour's Lost by award-winning scholar Jonathan Bate
*  The play – with clear explanatory notes on each page
*  A scene-by-scene analysis
*  An introduction to Shakespeare's career and the Elizabethan theatre
*  A rich exploration of approaches to staging the play
 
The most enjoyable way to understand a Shakespeare play is to see it or participate in it. This book presents a historical overview of Love's Labour's Lost in performance, recommends film versions, takes a detailed look at specific productions and includes interviews with three leading Directors – Terry Hands, Liz Shipman and Gregory Doran– so that we may get a sense of the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible - a variety that gives Shakespeare his unique capacity to be reinvented and made 'our contemporary' four centuries after his death.