How do performances of Shakespeare change the meanings of the plays?
In this controversial new book, Sarah Werner argues that the text of a Shakespeare play is only one of the many factors that give a performance its meaning. By focusing on The Royal Shakespeare Company, Werner demonstrates how actor training, company management and gender politics fundamentally affect both how a production is created and the interpretations it can suggest.
Werner concentrates particularly on:
The influential training methods of Cicely Berry and Patsy Rodenburg
The history of the RSC Women's...

In this controversial book, Sarah Werner argues that the text of a Shakespeare play is only one of the many factors that give a performance its meaning. By focusing on The Royal Shakespeare Company, and in particular: the influential training methods of Cicely Berry and Patsy Rodenburg the history of the RSC Women's Group Gale Edwards' production of The Taming of the Shrew Shakespeare and Feminist Performance demonstrates how actor training, company management and gender politics fundamentally affect both how a production is created and the interpretations it can suggest. By examining the...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Padagogik - Wissenschaft, Theorie, Anthropologie, Note: 1,7, Universitat zu Koln, 16 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Konstruktivismus ist eine vieldiskutierte Basistheorie. Die erkenntnistheoretische Kernthese lautet, dass die Welt nicht von uns gefunden, sondern erfunden wird. Wir erkennen die externe Wahrheit Welt nicht, wie sie wirklich ist, sondern konstruieren mit anderen eigene Wirklichkeiten, die ein viables Handeln ermoglichen. Die Erkenntnis einer absoluten Wahrheit ist deshalb nicht moglich. Lernen gilt...