Kategoria BISAC: Drama >> Shakespeare

With Annihilation Songs: Three Shakespeare Reintegrations, writer and award-winning filmmaker Jason DeBoer presents radical anagrammatic takes on The Tempest, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and Hamlet. Using only the words contained within each original drama, DeBoer's experimental fictions were created by disintegrating and then reintegrating Shakespeare's language into new narratives of warfare and desire. The result is an ultra-vivid hypertext, a warped yet faithful concordance of astounding poetic power, with theoretical roots in the earth of Bataille,...

This book, first published in 1985, explores the consciousness and the experience of Shakespeare s audience. First describing the stage s physical impact, Ralph Berry then goes on to explore the social or tribal consciousness of the audience in certain plays. The title finishes by examining the masque the salient form of the Jacobean theatre. This title will be of interest to students of literature and theatre studies.

What can the Globe Theatre tell us about performing Shakespeare?

Unearthing Shakespeare is the first book to consider what the Globe, today s replica of Shakespeare s theatre, can contribute to a practical understanding of Shakespeare s plays. Valerie Clayman Pye reconsiders the material evidence of Early Modern theatre-making, presenting clear, accessible discussions of historical theatre practice; stages and staging; and the relationship between actor and audience. She relays this into a series of training exercises for actors at all levels.

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What can the Globe Theatre tell us about performing Shakespeare?

Unearthing Shakespeare is the first book to consider what the Globe, today s replica of Shakespeare s theatre, can contribute to a practical understanding of Shakespeare s plays. Valerie Clayman Pye reconsiders the material evidence of Early Modern theatre-making, presenting clear, accessible discussions of historical theatre practice; stages and staging; and the relationship between actor and audience. She relays this into a series of training exercises for actors at all levels.

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Originally published in 1984. With selections organised chronologically, this collection presents the best writing on one of Shakespeare's most studied plays. The structure displays the changing responses to the play and includes a wide range of criticism from the likes of Coleridge, Hazlitt, Moulton, Granville-Barker, Orwell, Levin, Stampfer, Gardner and Speaight interspersed with short entries from Keats, Raleigh, Freud and others. The final chapter by the editor elucidates his own thoughts on Lear, building on his commentary in the Introduction which puts the collection in context.

Originally published in 1991. Collecting together commentary and critique on 'the Scottish play', this book showcases varied discussions of the text and the theatrical productions. From Samuel Johnson's brief 1765 comment to the editor's own piece on the Porter's scene, the texts included here are popular important accounts of thoughts and scholarship on the play over the years. Some pieces address the most famous early Lady Macbeth - Mrs Siddons, while others look at a theme or specific issue such as Lady Macbeth's children. This is a great sample of the voluminous body of work looking at...

Heerfuhrer Macbeth kehrt siegreich aus der Schlacht gegen den norwegischen Konig Sweno wieder. Drei Hexen prophezeihen ihm, er wird einst Konig von Schottland sein. Die Aussicht, Konigin zu werden, reizt Lady Macbeth so sehr, dass ein Mordplan schnell ausgeheckt und Macbeth zum Mord an Konig Duncan gedrangt wird. Der Plan gelingt, doch die Konigswurde wird Macbeth schnell leidig. Das Morderpaar gerat in einen Strudel aus Angst und Schuldgefuhlen,...