Performing Shakespeare's Tragedies Today: The Actor's Perspective - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0521855098 ISBN 13: 9780521855099

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Riassunto

What does it mean to perform Shakespeare's Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedies in the modern theatre? This book brings together the reflections of a number of major classical actors on how these works can most powerfully be realized for today's audiences. Concentrating on the 'great' tragedies - Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth and King Lear - the actors offer unique insights into some of the most demanding and rewarding roles in world drama, by showing what it is like to play them on stage. Ten perceptive and articulate performers reflect on their experiences of ten major roles: the Ghost, Gertrude and Hamlet; Iago, Emilia and Othello; Lady Macbeth and Macbeth; Lear's Fool, and King Lear. Together, these essays provide a peculiarly intimate set of trade secrets about what techniques, ideas and memories actors may use when approaching tragic roles in Shakespeare's most challenging plays.

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Recensione:

'All of the contributors are talented and well-informed raconteurs.' Journal of NTQ

Descrizione del libro:

What does it mean to perform Shakespeare's Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedies in the modern theatre? This book brings together the reflections of a number of major classical actors, including Sir Antony Sher, Samuel West and Imogen Stubbs, on how these works can most powerfully be realized for today's audiences.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0521855098
• ISBN 13: 9780521855099
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 154
• Redattore: Dobson Michael