The Methuen Book of Shakespeare Anecdotes

ISBN-13: 9781138659599 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 205 str.

Opis

Few playwrights have been more slandered, abused or honoured in performance than William Shakespeare.

First published in 1992, this collection of 300 stories focuses on Shakespeare’s plays on stage. Organised chronologically, it offers the reader the opportunity to witness the changes in theatrical approaches to Shakespeare from their own time to the present day.

This book will be of interest to those studying theatre, but also to those fascinated by the Shakespeare tradition.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 William Shakespeare; Chapter 2 Samuel Pepys; Chapter 3 Colley Cibber; Chapter 4 Thomas Betterton; Chapter 5 Barton Booth; Chapter 6 John Dennis; Chapter 7 Charles Macklin; Chapter 8 James Quin; Chapter 9 David Garrick; Chapter 10 Peg Woffington; Chapter 11 Susannah Cibber; Chapter 12 John Henderson; Chapter 13 Samuel Reddish; Chapter 14 Mary Robinson; Chapter 15 Dr Samuel Johnson; Chapter 16 James William Dodd; Chapter 17 Master Betty; Chapter 18 John Philip Kemble; Chapter 19 George Frederick Cooke; Chapter 20 William Bensley; Chapter 21 Solomon Franklin (‘Sol’) Smith; Chapter 22 Sarah Siddons; Chapter 23 Robert ‘Romeo’ Coates; Chapter 24 Edmund Kean; Chapter 25 Charles Kemble; Chapter 26 Robert William Elliston; Chapter 27 Edwin Forrest; Chapter 28 William Charles Macready; Chapter 29 Lester Wallack; Chapter 30 Ellen Terry; Chapter 31 Charles Kean; Chapter 32 John Coleman; Chapter 33 Sir Henry Irving; Chapter 34 Tommaso Salvini; Chapter 35 Elena Modjeska; Chapter 36 Barry Sullivan; Chapter 37 Samuel Phelps; Chapter 38 Dame Madge Kendal; Chapter 39 Sir Frank Benson; Chapter 40 Ada Rehan; Chapter 41 Constance Benson; Chapter 42 Louis Calvert; Chapter 43 Julia Neilson; Chapter 44 Sir Barry Jackson; Chapter 45 William Poel; Chapter 46 Mrs Patrick Campbell; Chapter 47 Robert Mantell; Chapter 48 Lewis Waller; Chapter 49 Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree; Chapter 50 Konstantin Stanislavski; Chapter 51 Lilian Baylis; Chapter 52 Harley Granville-Barker; Chapter 53 Russell Thorndike; Chapter 54 John Barrymore; Chapter 55 Theodore Komisarjevsky; Chapter 56 Sir Ralph Richardson; Chapter 57 Max Reinhardt; Chapter 58 Charles Laughton; Chapter 59 Fanny Rowe; Chapter 60 Sir John Gielgud; Chapter 61 Geoffrey Kendal; Chapter 62 Peggy Ashcroft; Chapter 63 Sir Michael Redgrave; Chapter 64 Sir Tyrone Guthrie; Chapter 65 Sir Laurence Olivier (Baron Olivier of Brighton); Chapter 66 Alec Clunes; Chapter 67 Sir Donald Wolfit; Chapter 68 Peter Brook; Chapter 69 Claire Bloom; Chapter 70 Diana Wynyard; Chapter 71 Sir Alec Guinness; Chapter 72 Franco Zeffirelli; Chapter 73 Richard Burton; Chapter 74 Trevor Nunn; Chapter 75 Peter Hall; Chapter 76 Simon Callow; Chapter 77 Sinead Cusack; Chapter 78 Antony Sher; Chapter 79 Kenneth Branagh; Chapter 80 Declan Donnellan; Chapter 81 Ian Charleson;

O autorze

Ralph Berry