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Studying Shakespeare in performance
- Title
- Studying Shakespeare in performance / John Russell Brown.
- Author
- Brown, John Russell.
- Publication
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 11-3163 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- viii, 231 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "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 essays provide an authoritative and engaging account of how to study Shakespeare's plays as texts for performance"--Publisher description.
- Subject
- Note
- Includes index.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I: STUDY -- Theatre Citicism and Literary Criticism -- Research in the Service of Theatre -- Writing about Shakespeare's Plays in Performance -- PART II: WORDS AND ACTIONS -- The Nature of Speech in the Plays -- Acting in the Plays -- Shakespeare's Subtext -- Shakespeare's Use of Space -- PART III: PRODUCTIONS -- Free Shakespeare -- Representing Sexuality -- Violence and Sensationalism -- PART IV: DIRECTORS -- Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet -- Three Directors -- PART V: AUDIENCES -- Play-going and Participation -- Asian Theatres and European Shakespeares -- Index.
- Call Number
- JFD 11-3163
- ISBN
- 9780230273740 (pbk)
- 0230273742 (pbk)
- LCCN
- 2011016882
- OCLC
- 746302038
- Author
- Brown, John Russell.
- Title
- Studying Shakespeare in performance / John Russell Brown.
- Imprint
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 11-3163