Staging Shakespeare's Late Plays

ISBN-13: 9780198128779 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 276 str.

Roger Warren

Opis

The work of an acclaimed critic and director, this book breaks new ground by describing how the rehearsal process highlights the principal theatrical issues of Shakespeare's late plays: Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest. Drawing on his extensive experience with the rehearsal and performance at Stratford, Ontario in 1986, and at the National Theatre in 1988, Warren demonstrates how rehearsal creates extreme contrasts of mood and action, places intense personal crises in a wider political framework, and inspires spiritual journeys in the actors. Addressing many aspects of production--acting, direction, design, lighting, music, and audience response--this work will be important to all those involved with Shakespearean drama and its performance.

Recenzje

'rich examples from other productions illuminate further possibilities: the plays open out on the page rather than close in, achieving what the best performance criticism aims at ... The chapter on Pericles, too, is a model of its kind, not only exploring the theatrical implications of textual scholarship but also demonstrating its genuine creative potential.' Christine Dymkowski, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, Review of English Studies, Vol. 44, May 1993

Spis treści

List of illustrations; Note on the text; Introduction; Contexts and beginnings; Spiritual journeys: Cymbeline; A jealous tyrant: The Winter's Tale; Rough magic and heavenly music: The Tempest; Textual and theatrical issues: Pericles; Epilogue; Index

O autorze

Roger Warren has directed over 50 productions including much Shakespeare.