This wide and universal theater : Shakespeare in performance, then and now /
Bevington, David M.
This wide and universal theater : Shakespeare in performance, then and now / This wide and universal theatre : Shakespeare in performance, then and now / David Bevington. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007. - xi, 242 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
This study examines how Shakespeare's plays have been transformed for the stage by the demands of theatrical spaces and staging conventions.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-230) and index.
1 Actions That a Man Might Play: An Introduction 2 There Lies the Scene: Actors and Theaters in Late Elizabethan England 3 A Local Habitation and a Name: Stage Business in the Comedies 4 Thus Play I in One Person Many People: Performing the Histories 5 Like a Strutting Player: Staging Moral Ambiguity in Measure for Measure and Troilus and Cressida 6 The Motive and the Cue for Passion: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Othello in Performance 7 A Poor Player That Struts and Frets His Hour upon the Stage: Role-playing in King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra 8 Insubstantial Pageant: Shakespeare’s Farewell to the Stage 9 This Falls Out Better Than I Could Devise: An Afterword
9780226044798 0226044785 (alk. paper)
2006036167
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Stage history.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Dramatic production--Methodology.
PR3091. / B485 2007
792.9/5
This wide and universal theater : Shakespeare in performance, then and now / This wide and universal theatre : Shakespeare in performance, then and now / David Bevington. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007. - xi, 242 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
This study examines how Shakespeare's plays have been transformed for the stage by the demands of theatrical spaces and staging conventions.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-230) and index.
1 Actions That a Man Might Play: An Introduction 2 There Lies the Scene: Actors and Theaters in Late Elizabethan England 3 A Local Habitation and a Name: Stage Business in the Comedies 4 Thus Play I in One Person Many People: Performing the Histories 5 Like a Strutting Player: Staging Moral Ambiguity in Measure for Measure and Troilus and Cressida 6 The Motive and the Cue for Passion: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Othello in Performance 7 A Poor Player That Struts and Frets His Hour upon the Stage: Role-playing in King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra 8 Insubstantial Pageant: Shakespeare’s Farewell to the Stage 9 This Falls Out Better Than I Could Devise: An Afterword
9780226044798 0226044785 (alk. paper)
2006036167
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Stage history.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Dramatic production--Methodology.
PR3091. / B485 2007
792.9/5