John Russell Brown is arguably the most influential scholar in the field of Shakespeare in performance. This collection brings together, and makes accessible, his most important writing across the last 40 years. Together these essaysprovide an authoritative and engaging account of how to study Shakespeare's plays as texts for performance. JOHN RUSSELL BROWN is an Honorary Visiting Professor at University CollegeLondon, and has held chairs of English and Theatre in both England and the USA. He has directed renaissance and contemporary plays in student and professional theatres: for twelve years he was an Associate Director of the Royal National Theatre. He is series editor for 'The Shakespeare Handbooks' and 'Theatresof the World' and has edited and contributed to the 'Oxford Illustrated History of Theatre'. Among his previous publications are 'Shakespeare: The Tragedies', 'Shakespeare and the Theatrical Event' and 'Shakespeare Dancing', all published by Palgrave Macmillan. INDICE: Acknowledgments - Introduction - PART I: STUDY - Theatrical Study and Edition of the Plays - Research in the Service of Theatre - Writing about Plays in Performance - PART II: WORDS AND ACTIONS - The Nature of Speech in the Plays - Acting in the Plays - Unspoken Thoughts and Subtextual Meanings - Using Space - PART III: PRODUCTIONS - Free Shakespeare - Representing Sexuality - Violence and Sensationalism - PART IV: DIRECTORS - Franco Zeffirelli's 'Romeo and Juliet' - Three Kinds of Shakespeare - PART V: AUDIENCES - Playgoing andParticipation - Asian Theatres and European Shakespeares - Conclusion: Anyone's Shakespeare - Index -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-27374-0
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 240
- Fecha Publicación: 01/07/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés