Author: Nancy J. Doran HazeltonPublisher: Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Historical Consciousness in Nineteenth-century Shakespearean Staging
Author: Nancy J. Doran HazeltonPublisher: Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Shakespeare's Victorian Stage
Author: Richard W. SchochPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521622813
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This book explores the revivals of Shakespeare's history plays during the Victorian period, as staged by the famous actor-manager Charles Kean. Between 1852 and 1859, Kean produced celebrated productions of Henry V, Henry VIII, King John, Macbeth and Richard II, renowned for their unprecendented attention to antiquarian detail in sets, costumes, and properties (many of which are shown in the book's illustrations). These productions provided audiences with an unparalleled opportunity to participate in the Victorian obsession with history, especially of the medieval period. Using valuable primary sources, including promptbooks, scenic designs, costume sketches and contemporary reviews, Richard Schoch places mid-Victorian attitudes towards the theatre in the context of major intellectual and political movements of the age. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of theatre history, Shakespeare studies and Victorian culture.
Shakespeare among the Moderns
Author: Richard HalpernPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501725483
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Modernist writers, critics, and artists sparked a fresh and distinctive interpretation of Shakespeare's plays which has proved remarkably tenacious, as Richard Halpern explains in this lively and provocative book. The preoccupations of such high modernists as T. S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis, and James Joyce set the tone for the critical reception of Shakespeare in the twentieth century. Halpern contends their habits of thought continue to dominate postmodern schools of criticism that claim to have broken with the modernist legacy. Halpern addresses such topics as imperialism and modernism's cult of the primitive, the rise of mass culture, modernist anti-semitism, and the aesthetic of the machine. His discussion considers figures as diverse as Orson Welles and Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Shakespeare critics including Northrop Frye, Cleanth Brooks, Stephen Greenblatt, and Stanley Cavell. Shakespeare's works have been subjected to a continuing process of historical reinterpretation in which every new era has imposed its own cultural and ideological presuppositions on the plays. The most enduring contribution of modernism, Halpern suggests, has been the juxtaposition of an awareness of historical distance and a mapping of Shakespeare's plays onto the present. Using modernist themes and approaches, he constructs new readings of four Shakespeare plays.
The Ancient World on the Victorian and Edwardian Stage
Author: J. RichardsPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230250890
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
The first study of the depictions of the Ancient World on the Victorian and Edwardian stage, this book analyzes plays set in and dramatising the histories of Greece, Rome, Egypt, Babylon and the Holy Land. In doing so, it seeks to locate theatre within the wider culture, tracing its links and interaction with other cultural forms.
Shakespeare And The Victorians
Author: Adrian PoolePublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408143720
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Adrian Poole examines the Victorian's obsession with Shakespeare, his impact upon the era's consciousness, and the expression of this in their drama, novels and poetry. The book features detailed discussion of the interpretations and applications of Shakespeare by major figures such as Dickens and Hardy, Tennyson and Browning, as well as those less well-known.
Great Shakespeareans Set I
Author: Peter HollandPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1441124039
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1078
Book Description
Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally. This major project offers an unprecedented scholarly analysis of the contribution made by the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and directors as well as novelists, poets, composers, and thinkers from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Great Shakespeareans will be an essential resource for students and scholars in Shakespeare studies.
Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part III, Volume 2
Author: Gail MarshallPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040129064
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Features actors who were significant in their development of new and innovative ways of performing Shakespeare. This title contains extracts from diaries, memoirs, private letters, and obituaries that present a contemporary account of their acting achievements and personal lives.
Nineteenth Century Theatre
Author: Great Shakespeareans Set II
Author: Adrian PoolePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472578554
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1051
Book Description
The second set of volumes in the eighteen-volume series Great Shakespeareans, covering the work of nineteen key figures who influenced the global understanding of Shakespeare
Macready, Booth, Terry, Irving
Author: Richard SchochPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441181369
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
A comprehensive critical analysis of the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and directors. This volume focuses on Shakespeare's reception by figures in Victorian theatre.