Author: John Barton
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307773914
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Playing Shakespeare is the premier guide to understanding and appreciating the mastery of the world’s greatest playwright. Together with Royal Shakespeare Company actors–among them Patrick Stewart, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Ben Kingsley, and David Suchet–John Barton demonstrates how to adapt Elizabethan theater for the modern stage. The director begins by explicating Shakespeare’s verse and prose, speeches and soliloquies, and naturalistic and heightened language to discover the essence of his characters. In the second section, Barton and the actors explore nuance in Shakespearean theater, from evoking irony and ambiguity and striking the delicate balance of passion and profound intellectual thought, to finding new approaches to playing Shakespeare’s most controversial creation, Shylock, from The Merchant of Venice. A practical and essential guide, Playing Shakespeare will stand for years as the authoritative favorite among actors, scholars, teachers, and students.
The BBC Shakespeare Plays
Author: Susan Willis
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 9780807843178
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Examines the BBC productions of all thirty-seven Shakespeare plays, discussing how the plays were adapted for television and the different approaches taken by each play's director
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 9780807843178
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Examines the BBC productions of all thirty-seven Shakespeare plays, discussing how the plays were adapted for television and the different approaches taken by each play's director
This Wide and Universal Theater
Author: David Bevington
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226044793
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This study examines how Shakespeare's plays have been transformed for the stage by the demands of theatrical spaces and staging conventions.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226044793
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This study examines how Shakespeare's plays have been transformed for the stage by the demands of theatrical spaces and staging conventions.
William Shakespeare
Author: Joelle Herr
Publisher: RP Minis
ISBN: 0762453249
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Oversized mini book packed with witty summaries of the plays of William Shakespeare, a man widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, and all of the Shakespearan classics are efficiently organized into comedies, tragedies, and histories. This compact tome is perfect for either digesting small bites of information or devouring in one sitting. It features synopses, character profiles, and illustrations certain to entertain both novices and Shakespeare lovers alike.
Publisher: RP Minis
ISBN: 0762453249
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Oversized mini book packed with witty summaries of the plays of William Shakespeare, a man widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, and all of the Shakespearan classics are efficiently organized into comedies, tragedies, and histories. This compact tome is perfect for either digesting small bites of information or devouring in one sitting. It features synopses, character profiles, and illustrations certain to entertain both novices and Shakespeare lovers alike.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Shakespeare
Author: Will Fowler
Publisher: Pearson UK
ISBN: 1292306033
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Publisher: Pearson UK
ISBN: 1292306033
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
The Women of Shakespeare's Plays
Author: Courtni Crump Wright
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780819188267
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
This book analyzes, through easy-to-follow play synopses, the strengths and weaknesses of the female protagonists as they impact not only the plot of Shakespeare's plays but the male protagonist. Selected, condensed one-act versions of the plays are provided in order to enrich the discussion of the play, to stimulate in reading the play in its entirety, and to provide a springboard for group discussion of the play and the impact of the women. Contents: William Shakespeare: His Art, Life and Times; The Women of Shakespeare's Plays: An Overview; The Comedy of Errors; Hamlet, Prince of Denmark; The Merry Wives of Windsor; Julius Caesar; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Macbeth; Much Ado About Nothing; Othello the Moor of Venice; The Taming of the Shrew; Antony and Cleopatra; Twelfth Night or What You Will; Romeo and Juliet; The Two Gentlemen of Verona; Bibliography.
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780819188267
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
This book analyzes, through easy-to-follow play synopses, the strengths and weaknesses of the female protagonists as they impact not only the plot of Shakespeare's plays but the male protagonist. Selected, condensed one-act versions of the plays are provided in order to enrich the discussion of the play, to stimulate in reading the play in its entirety, and to provide a springboard for group discussion of the play and the impact of the women. Contents: William Shakespeare: His Art, Life and Times; The Women of Shakespeare's Plays: An Overview; The Comedy of Errors; Hamlet, Prince of Denmark; The Merry Wives of Windsor; Julius Caesar; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Macbeth; Much Ado About Nothing; Othello the Moor of Venice; The Taming of the Shrew; Antony and Cleopatra; Twelfth Night or What You Will; Romeo and Juliet; The Two Gentlemen of Verona; Bibliography.
The Language of Shakespeare's Plays
Author: B. I. Evans
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136560769
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
First published in 1952. This volume explores the function of verse in drama and the developing way in which Shakespeare controlled the rhetorical and decorative elements of speech for the dramatic purpose. The Language of Shakespeare's Plays explores the plays chronologically and so covers all the outstanding problems of Shakespearian language in a way that makes reference easy, without any loss of a continuing narrative.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136560769
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
First published in 1952. This volume explores the function of verse in drama and the developing way in which Shakespeare controlled the rhetorical and decorative elements of speech for the dramatic purpose. The Language of Shakespeare's Plays explores the plays chronologically and so covers all the outstanding problems of Shakespearian language in a way that makes reference easy, without any loss of a continuing narrative.
the Yale Shakespeare
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Shakespeare
Author: Anthony Burgess
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473512409
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Among Shakespeare's many biographers none brings to his subject more passion and feeling for the creative act than Anthony Burgess. He breathes life into Shakespeare the man and invigorates his times. His portrait of the age builds upon an almost personal tenderness for Shakespeare and his contemporaries (especially Ben Jonson), and on a profound sense of literary and theatrical history. Anthony Burgess's well-known delight in language infuses his own writing about Shakespeare's works. And in the verve of his biography he conveys the energy of the Elizabethan age.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473512409
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Among Shakespeare's many biographers none brings to his subject more passion and feeling for the creative act than Anthony Burgess. He breathes life into Shakespeare the man and invigorates his times. His portrait of the age builds upon an almost personal tenderness for Shakespeare and his contemporaries (especially Ben Jonson), and on a profound sense of literary and theatrical history. Anthony Burgess's well-known delight in language infuses his own writing about Shakespeare's works. And in the verve of his biography he conveys the energy of the Elizabethan age.
Shakespeare's Plays
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description