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Book Synopsis Shakespeare on the German Stage: Volume 1, 1586-1914 by : Simon Williams
Download or read book Shakespeare on the German Stage: Volume 1, 1586-1914 written by Simon Williams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-11-11 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Williams focuses on the classical period of German literature and theatre, when Shakespeare's plays were first staged in Germany in a relatively complete form, and when they had a potent influence on the writings of German drama and dramatic criticism.
Book Synopsis Shakespeare on the German Stage: Volume 2, The Twentieth Century by : Wilhelm Hortmann
Download or read book Shakespeare on the German Stage: Volume 2, The Twentieth Century written by Wilhelm Hortmann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-05-28 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare has been a central figure in German literature and theatre. This book tells the story of Shakespeare in the German-speaking theatre against the background of German culture and politics in the twentieth century. It follows the earlier volume by Simon Williams on the reception of Shakespeare during the previous 300 years (Shakespeare on the German Stage, 1586-1914). Hortmann concentrates on the two most important and fruitful periods: the years of the Weimar Republic (1919-1933) and the turbulent decades of the sixties and seventies, when the German theatre was revitalised by a stormy marriage of avant-garde art and revolutionary politics. A section by Maik Hamburger covers developments in the theatres of the German Democratic Republic. Hortmann focuses on the most representative and colourful directors and actors, describing and illustrating individual productions as examples of particular trends or movements.
Book Synopsis Shakespeare on the German Stage, 1586-1914 by : Simon Williams
Download or read book Shakespeare on the German Stage, 1586-1914 written by Simon Williams and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Shakespeare on the German Stage: Volume 1, 1586-1914 by : Simon Williams
Download or read book Shakespeare on the German Stage: Volume 1, 1586-1914 written by Simon Williams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-05-17 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an illustrated history of the performance and reception of Shakespeare's plays on the German stage from the English Comedians in the late sixteenth century to the First World War. Simon Williams argues that the vision of Shakespeare first articulated by critics of Sturm und Drang and romanticism was only realised in practice with the productions of Max Reinhardt in the early twentieth century. The book focuses on the classical period of German literature and theatre, when Shakespeare's plays were first staged in Germany in a relatively complete form, and when they had a potent influence on the writings of German drama and dramatic criticism. Important contributions to the critical reception of Shakespeare in the late eighteenth century are discussed. Professor Williams describes the steady increase in productions of Shakespeare's plays during the nineteenth century, paying attention to textual adaptation, actors' interpretations of leading roles and, in the latter part of the book, to the influence of the rise of the director on Shakespearean performance. A subsequent volume by Wilhelm Hortmann discusses Shakespeare production in Germany from the early twentieth century to the present day.
Book Synopsis Shakespeare on the German Stage: Volume 2, The Twentieth Century by : Wilhelm Hortmann
Download or read book Shakespeare on the German Stage: Volume 2, The Twentieth Century written by Wilhelm Hortmann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of Shakespeare in the German-speaking theater is set against the background of German culture and politics in the twentieth century. Following on the earlier volume by Simon Williams, Shakespeare on the German Stage, 1586-1914, Hortmann concentrates on the years of the Weimar Republic (1919-1933) and the turbulent decades of the sixties and seventies. The work of individual directors, designers and actors is described and performances are plentifully illustrated. A section by Maik Hamburger describes the theater of the German Democratic Republic.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Stage by : Stanley Wells
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Stage written by Stanley Wells and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-30 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion is designed for readers interested in past and present productions of Shakespeare's plays, both in and beyond Britain. The first six chapters describe aspects of the British performing tradition in chronological sequence, from the early staging of Shakespeare's own time, through to the present day. Each relates Shakespearean developments to broader cultural concerns and adopts an individual approach and focus, on textual adaptation, acting, stages, scenery or theatre management. These are followed by three explorations of acting: tragic and comic actors and women performers of Shakespeare roles. A section on international performance includes chapters on interculturalism, on touring companies and on political theatre, with separate accounts of the performing traditions of North America, Asia and Africa. Over forty pictures illustrate performers and productions of Shakespeare from around the world. An amalgamated list of items for further reading completes the book.
Book Synopsis The Nazi Appropriation of Shakespeare by : Rodney Symington
Download or read book The Nazi Appropriation of Shakespeare written by Rodney Symington and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the Nazis, Shakespeare was a major cultural icon, whose works belonged to German culture more than to English and were therefore to be exploited for political-propagandistic purposes like those of any other German classical writer. Following an overview of the importance of Shakespeare in German culture, this book's three major sections investigate the controversy over the appropriate translation Shakespeare's plays to be read and performed, the effect of the new political-cultural climate on Shakespeare-scholarship, and the attempts of the Nazis to co-ordinate Shakespeare's works on the stage for propagandistic ends. This is the first complete study, entirely in English, to present the total picture of Shakespeare's fortunes in Germany between 1933 and 1945 in the context of Nazi cultural policy.
Book Synopsis Shakespeare in Germany in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries by : Albert Cohn
Download or read book Shakespeare in Germany in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries written by Albert Cohn and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Shakespeare and Germany by : Alois Brandl
Download or read book Shakespeare and Germany written by Alois Brandl and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Precarious Figurations by : Zeno Ackermann
Download or read book Precarious Figurations written by Zeno Ackermann and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Precarious Figurations focuses on the reception of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Germany. Looking at theatrical practices and critical or scholarly discourses from the Weimar Republic to the new millennium, the book explores why the play has served simultaneously as a vehicle for the actualization of anti-Semitic tropes and as a staging ground for the critical exposure of the very logic of anti-Semitism. In particular, the study investigates how the figure of Shylock has come to be both a device in and a stumbling block for attempts to bridge the fundamental rupture in civilization brought about by the Holocaust. The careful analysis of the German reception of Merchant, and in particular of the ways of doing and reading Shylock in the context of painful German, and German-Jewish, discourses of identity and remembrance, is designed to raise fundamental questions – questions concerning not only the staging of Jewishness, the tenacity of anti-Semitism and the difficulties of Holocaust remembrance, but also the general potentials and limitations of theatrical interventions into cultural conflicts.
Book Synopsis Precarious Figurations by : Zeno Ackermann
Download or read book Precarious Figurations written by Zeno Ackermann and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Precarious Figurations focuses on the reception of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Germany. Looking at theatrical practices and critical or scholarly discourses from the Weimar Republic to the new millennium, the book explores why the play has served simultaneously as a vehicle for the actualization of anti-Semitic tropes and as a staging ground for the critical exposure of the very logic of anti-Semitism. In particular, the study investigates how the figure of Shylock has come to be both a device in and a stumbling block for attempts to bridge the fundamental rupture in civilization brought about by the Holocaust. The careful analysis of the German reception of Merchant, and in particular of the ways of doing and reading Shylock in the context of painful German, and German-Jewish, discourses of identity and remembrance, is designed to raise fundamental questions – questions concerning not only the staging of Jewishness, the tenacity of anti-Semitism and the difficulties of Holocaust remembrance, but also the general potentials and limitations of theatrical interventions into cultural conflicts.
Book Synopsis A Stage Full of Shakespeare Stories by : Angela McAllister
Download or read book A Stage Full of Shakespeare Stories written by Angela McAllister and published by Frances Lincoln Children's Books. This book was released on 2018-08-29 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step on to a stage full of stories with this beautiful anthology of 12 stories from Shakespeare. Featuring much-loved classics such as The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and Othello, each story is rewritten in a comprehensive way that is accessible for children and stunningly illustrated by collage artist Alice Lindstrom. This lavish follow-up to A Year Full of Stories and A World Full of Animal Stories is the perfect gift for book lovers young and old.
Book Synopsis German Shakespeare Studies at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century by : Christa Jansohn
Download or read book German Shakespeare Studies at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century written by Christa Jansohn and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This collection of fifteen essays offers a sample of German Shakespeare studies at the turn of the century. The articles are written by scholars in the old "Bundeslander" and deal with topics such as culture, memory and natural sciences in Shakespeare's work, Shakespearean spin-offs, and the reception of Venice and Shylock in Germany. Series: Shakespeare and His Contemporaries."--Publisher's website.
Book Synopsis Shakespeare on the University Stage by : Andrew James Hartley
Download or read book Shakespeare on the University Stage written by Andrew James Hartley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-11 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring essays from seventeen international scholars, this exciting new collection is the first sustained study of Shakespeare on the university and college stage. Treating the subject both historically and globally, the essays describe theatrical conditions that fit neither the professional nor the amateur models and show how student performances provide valuable vehicles for artistic construction and intellectual analysis. The book redresses the neglect of this distinctive form of Shakespeare performance, opening up new ways of thinking about the nature and value of university production and its ability to draw unique audiences. Looking at productions across the world - from Asia to Europe and North America - it will interest scholars as well as upper-level students in areas such as Shakespeare studies, performance studies and theatre history.
Book Synopsis Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century by : Fiona Ritchie
Download or read book Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century written by Fiona Ritchie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Shakespeare's influence and popularity in all aspects of eighteenth-century literature, culture and society.
Book Synopsis Shakespeare and the Modern Stage by : Sir Sidney Lee
Download or read book Shakespeare and the Modern Stage written by Sir Sidney Lee and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Shylock in Germany by : Andrew G. Bonnell
Download or read book Shylock in Germany written by Andrew G. Bonnell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-11-28 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the catastrophic development of antisemitism in Germany interact with the portrayal of Shylock on the German stage? Here Andrew Bonnell gives us the first cultural history of this tragic character from Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" as performed on the German stage from the late eighteenth century to the end of World War II. In addition to analysing the performances of the most famous German actors in the role from 1777 to 1944, "Shylock in Germany" looks at the rising and falling popularity of "The Merchant of Venice" across Germany in this period, and the extent to which the role's history reflects changes in the situation of Jews in Germany and Austria.It follows the evolution of Shylock in nineteenth century and Imperial Germany, from the formative years of the modern German theatre as a cultural (and civic) institution; through the Weimar Republic, an epoch remembered for innovation and experiment, but also a period marked by an estrangement between an aggressively modernist metropolitan culture and a provincial cultural life which clung more to continuity; and, finally, considers the impact of the Nazi period with its murderous state-ordained antisemitism. Shylock's career in Germany after 1933 was neither as conspicuous nor as unambiguous as one might expect. Using archival research and drawing on much primary source material, Bonnell does not confine the book to theatre history only - but instead uses the changing portrayal of Shylock to analyse German cultural attitudes towards Jews over time.
