Shakespeare in Ten Acts - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0712356312 ISBN 13: 9780712356312

Casa editrice: British Library Board, 2016

Riassunto

Four hundred years after Shakespeare’s death, it is difficult to imagine a time when he was not considered a genius. But those 400 years have seen his plays banished and bowdlerized, faked and forged, traded and translated, re-mixed and re-cast. Shakespeare’s story is not one of a steady rise to fame; it is a tale of set-backs and sea-changes that have made him the cultural icon he is today. Each performance discussed here holds up a mirror to the era in which it was performed. The first stage appearance by a woman in 1660 and a black actor playing Othello in 1825 were landmarks for society as well as for Shakespeare’s reputation. The book explores productions as diverse as Peter Brook’s legendary A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Mark Rylance’s ‘Original Practices’ Twelfth Night, and a Shakespeare forgery staged at Drury Lane in 1796, among many others. The illustrations include the only surviving playscript in Shakespeare’s hand, an authentic Shakespeare signature, and rare printed editions including the First Folio. These and other treasures from the British Library’s manuscript and rare book collections feature alongside film stills, costumes, paintings and production photographs.

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Recensione:

A rich account of the challenges of staging Shakespeare . . . A captivating portrait of the ever-changing Shakespearean stage. --The Independent

The contributors all achieve notable feats of expertly informed and accessible exposition . . . the cumulative effect of the ten chapters is to illustrate the myriad contradictions as well as the undoubted achievements of the Shakespeare phenomenon. --Shakespeare Survey, Issue 70

L'autore:

Gordon McMullan is a Professor of English at King’s College London and a director of the London Shakespeare Centre. Zoe Wilcox is Lead Curator at the British Library for the Shakespeare and performance exhibition which this book accompanies.

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• Editore: British Library Board
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0712356312
• ISBN 13: 9780712356312
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Numero di pagine: 224
• Redattore: McMullan Gordon, Wilcox Zoe