As You Like It - Rilegato

Shaughnessy, Robert

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0719086930 ISBN 13: 9780719086939

Casa editrice: Manchester Univ Pr, 2017

Riassunto

This book examines the modern performance history of one of Shakespeare's best-loved and most enduring comedies, and one that has given opportunities for generations of theatre-makers and theatre-goers to explore the pleasures of pastoral, gender masquerade and sexual ambiguity. Powered by Shakespeare's greatest female comic role, the play invites us into a deeply English woodland that has also been richly imagined as a space of dreams. The study retrieves the untold stories of stage productions in Britain, France and Germany, which include Royal Shakespeare Company productions starring Vanessa Redgrave, Eileen Atkins and Juliet Stevenson, the ground-breaking all-male productions at the National Theatre in 1967 and by Cheek by Jowl in 1992, and the versions directed by Jacques Copeau in Paris in 1934, and by Peter Stein in Berlin in 1977. It also addresses the four major screen versions of the play, ranging from Paul Czinner's 1936 film to Kenneth Branagh's seventy years later.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Robert Shaughnessy is Professor in Theatre at the University of Surrey

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Manchester Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0719086930
• ISBN 13: 9780719086939
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 228