Reviewing Shakespeare: Journalism and Performance from the Eighteenth Century to the Present

ISBN-13: 9781108439077 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 226 str.

Paul Prescott

Opis

Paul Prescott presents an engaging account of the ways in which theatre critics have responded to Shakespeare over four centuries.

Recenzje

'… Prescott's survey is the first book about the subject, and as such makes an important contribution to correct 'the low esteem in which scholars have held journalists and journalistic criticism'.' Gefen Bar-On Santor, Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

Spis treści

1. An introduction to the night-watch constable; 2. Tradition and the individual talent: reviewing the Macbeth actor c.1740s–1890s; 3. New journalism, new critics c.1890–1910; 4. The reviewer in transition c.1920–60; 5. New contexts, new crises (1997–2012): reviewing from the opening of Shakespeare's Globe to the World Shakespeare Festival 2012; Works cited.