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Shakespeare and Directing in Practice

Author : Kevin Ewert
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137369302
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Directing in Practice written by Kevin Ewert and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When directors approach Shakespeare, is the play always the thing – or might something else sometimes be the thing? How can directing produce fresh contexts for Shakespeare's work? Part of the innovative series Shakespeare in Practice this book introduces students to current practices of directing Shakespeare. Ewert explores how the conventions and creative tropes of today's theatre make meaning in Shakespeare production now. The 'In Theory' section starts with an analysis of theatre production and directing more generally before looking at the specific Shakespeare context. The 'In Practice' section offers a wonderful range of production examples that showcase the wide breadth of approaches to directing Shakespeare today, from the 'conventional' to the most experimental. Providing a useful general overview of directing Shakespeare on stage today, this is an ideal text for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying 'Shakespeare in Performance' in Literature, Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies departments. This book will also inspire students studying directing as part of a theatre programme, and scholars, performers and lovers of Shakespeare everywhere.

How to Think Like Shakespeare

Author : Scott Newstok
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691227691
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book How to Think Like Shakespeare written by Scott Newstok and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book offers a short, spirited defense of rhetoric and the liberal arts as catalysts for precision, invention, and empathy in today's world. The author, a professor of Shakespeare studies at a liberal arts college and a parent of school-age children, argues that high-stakes testing and a culture of assessment have altered how and what students are taught, as courses across the arts, humanities, and sciences increasingly are set aside to make room for joyless, mechanical reading and math instruction. Students have been robbed of a complete education, their imaginations stunted by this myopic focus on bare literacy and numeracy. Education is about thinking, Newstok argues, rather than the mastery of a set of rigidly defined skills, and the seemingly rigid pedagogy of the English Renaissance produced some of the most compelling and influential examples of liberated thinking. Each of the fourteen chapters explores an essential element of Shakespeare's world and work, aligns it with the ideas of other thinkers and writers in modern times, and suggests opportunities for further reading. Chapters on craft, technology, attention, freedom, and related topics combine past and present ideas about education to build a case for the value of the past, the pleasure of thinking, and the limitations of modern educational practices and prejudices"--

Directing Shakespeare in America

Author : Charles Ney
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474239854
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Directing Shakespeare in America written by Charles Ney and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first substantive study of directing Shakespeare in the USA, Charles Ney compares and contrasts directors working at major companies across the country. Because of the complexities of directing Shakespeare for audiences today, a director's methods, values and biases are more readily perceptible in their work on Shakespeare than in more contemporary work. Directors disclose their interpretation of the text, their management of the various stages of production, how they go about supervising rehearsals and share tactics. This book will be useful to students wanting to develop skills, practitioners who want to learn from what other directors are doing, and scholars and students studying production practice and performance.

Shakespeare and Costume in Practice

Author : Bridget Escolme
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9783030571511
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (715 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Costume in Practice written by Bridget Escolme and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2021-12-24 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the role of costume in Shakespeare production? Shakespeare and Costume in Practice argues that costume design choices are central not only to the creation of period setting and the actor’s work on character, but to the cultural, political, and psychological meanings that the theatre makes of Shakespeare. The book explores questions about what the first Hamlet looked like in his mourning cloak; how costumes for a Shakespeare comedy can reflect or critique the collective nostalgias a culture has for its past; how costume and casting work together to ask new questions about Shakespeare and race. Using production case studies of Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, and The Tempest, the book demonstrates that costume design can be a site of experimentation, playfulness, and transgression in the theatre – and that it can provoke audiences to think again about what power, race, and gender look like on the Shakespearean stage.

The Routledge Companion to Directors' Shakespeare

Author : John Russell Brown
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134146485
Total Pages : 603 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Directors' Shakespeare written by John Russell Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Directors' Shakespeare is a major collaborative book about plays in performance. Thirty authoritative accounts describe in illuminating detail how some of theatre’s most talented directors have brought Shakespeare’s texts to the stage. Each chapter has a revealing story to tell as it explores a new and revitalising approach to the most familiar works in the English language. A must-have work of reference for students of both Shakespeare and theatre, this book presents some of the most acclaimed productions of the last hundred years in a variety of cultural and political contexts. Each entry describes a director’s own theatrical vision, and methods of rehearsal and production. These studies chart the extraordinary feats of interpretation and innovation that have given Shakespeare’s plays enduring life in the theatre. Notable entries include: Ingmar Bergman * Peter Brook * Declan Donnellan * Tyrone Guthrie * Peter Hall * Fritz Kortner * Robert Lepage * Joan Littlewood * Ninagawa Yukio * Joseph Papp * Roger Planchon * Max Reinhardt * Giorgio Strehler * Deborah Warner * Orson Welles * Franco Zeffirelli

Secrets of Acting Shakespeare

Author : Patrick Tucker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135862265
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Secrets of Acting Shakespeare written by Patrick Tucker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secrets of Acting Shakespeare isn't a book that gently instructs. It's a passionate, yes-you-can designed to prove that anybody can act Shakespeare. By explaining how Elizabethan actors had only their own lines and not entire playscripts, Patrick Tucker shows how much these plays work by ear. Secrets of Acting Shakespeare is a book for actors trained and amateur, as well as for anyone curious about how the Elizabethan theater worked.

Directing Shakespeare in America

Author : Charles Ney
Publisher : Arden Shakespeare
ISBN 13 : 147428969X
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Directing Shakespeare in America written by Charles Ney and published by Arden Shakespeare. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique and comprehensive study reviews the practice of leading American directors of Shakespeare from the late nineteenth to the end of the twentieth century. Charles Ney examines rehearsal and production records, as well as evidence from diaries, letters, autobiographies, reviews and photographs to consider each director's point of view when approaching Shakespeare and the differing directorial tools and techniques employed in significant productions in their careers. Directors covered include Augustin Daly, David Belasco, Arthur Hopkins, Orson Welles, Margaret Webster, B. Iden Payne, Angus Bowmer, Craig Noel, Jack O'Brien, Tyronne Guthrie, John Houseman, Allen Fletcher, Michael Kahn, Gerald Freedman, Joseph Papp, Stuart Vaughan, A. J. Antoon, JoAnne Akalaitis, Paul Barry, Tina Packer, Barbara Gaines, William Ball, Liviu Ciulei, Garland Wright, Mark Lamos, Ellis Rabb and Julie Taymor. Directing Shakespeare in America: Historical Perspectives offers readers an understanding of the context from which contemporary practitioners operate, the aesthetic philosophies to which they subscribe and a description of their rehearsal methods.

Teaching Shakespeare

Author : Rex Gibson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316609871
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Teaching Shakespeare written by Rex Gibson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An improved, larger-format edition of the Cambridge School Shakespeare plays, extensively rewritten, expanded and produced in an attractive new design.

Playing Shakespeare

Author : John Barton
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307773914
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Playing Shakespeare written by John Barton and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-11-10 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playing Shakespeare is the premier guide to understanding and appreciating the mastery of the world’s greatest playwright. Together with Royal Shakespeare Company actors–among them Patrick Stewart, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Ben Kingsley, and David Suchet–John Barton demonstrates how to adapt Elizabethan theater for the modern stage. The director begins by explicating Shakespeare’s verse and prose, speeches and soliloquies, and naturalistic and heightened language to discover the essence of his characters. In the second section, Barton and the actors explore nuance in Shakespearean theater, from evoking irony and ambiguity and striking the delicate balance of passion and profound intellectual thought, to finding new approaches to playing Shakespeare’s most controversial creation, Shylock, from The Merchant of Venice. A practical and essential guide, Playing Shakespeare will stand for years as the authoritative favorite among actors, scholars, teachers, and students.

Shakespeare and the Challenge of the Contemporary

Author : Francesca Clare Rayner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350182168
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Challenge of the Contemporary written by Francesca Clare Rayner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-23 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary performance is a particularly stimulating area for the study of how Shakespeare is produced and received in different cultural contexts. Francesca Clare Rayner's original and thought-provoking book highlights the diversity and experimentalism of contemporary performance practices through a focus on unexplored performances in Portugal. This book references key debates within contemporary performance studies on intermediality, globalization and political participation and analyses their particular configurations within the Portuguese context. These case studies represent clear alternatives to the market-driven view of the contemporary as the continual reproduction of the new and the topical for global consumers. Instead, they recast the contemporary as a site of disempowerment, crisis and erasure in a Europe fragmented by economic austerity, political divisions around Brexit, ecological vacillation and an anxious refashioning of global relations between North and South.

The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance

Author : Peter Kirwan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350080691
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance written by Peter Kirwan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance is a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on Shakespeare and performance studies by an international team of leading scholars. It contains chapters on the key methods and questions surrounding the performance event, the audience, and the archive – the primary sources on which performance studies draws. It identifies the recurring trends and fruitful lines of inquiry that are generating the most urgent work in the field, but also contextualises these within the histories and methods on which researchers build. A central section of research-focused essays offers case studies of present areas of enquiry, from new approaches to space, bodies and language to work on the technologies of remediation and original practices, from consideration of fandoms and the cultural capital invested in Shakespeare and his contemporaries to political and ethical interventions in performance practice. A distinctive feature of the volume is a curated section focusing on practitioners, in which leading directors, writers, actors, producers, and other theatre professionals comment on Shakespeare in performance and what they see as the key areas, challenges and provocations for researchers to explore. In addition, the Handbook contains various sections that provide non-specialists with practical help: an A-Z of key terms and concepts, a guide to research methods and problems, a chronology of major publications and events, an introduction to resources for study of the field, and a substantial annotated bibliography. The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance is a reference work aimed at advanced undergraduate and graduate students as well as scholars and libraries, a guide to beginning or developing research in the field, and an essential companion for all those interested in Shakespeare and performance.

Imaginary Performances in Shakespeare

Author : Aureliu Manea
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000074145
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imaginary Performances in Shakespeare written by Aureliu Manea and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Imaginary Performances in Shakespeare, visionary modernist theatre director Aureliu Manea analyses the theatrical possibilities of Shakespeare. Through nineteen Shakespeare plays, Manea sketches the intellectual parameters, the visual languages, and the emotional worlds of imagined stage interpretations of each; these nineteen short essays are appended by his essay ‘Confessions,’ an autobiographical meditation on the nature of theatre and the role of the director. This captivating book which will be attractive to anyone interested in Shakespeare and modern theatre.

Weyward Macbeth

Author : S. Newstok
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230102166
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Weyward Macbeth written by S. Newstok and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weyward Macbeth, a volume of entirely new essays, provides innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to the various ways Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' has been adapted and appropriated within the context of American racial constructions. Comprehensive in its scope, this collection addresses the enduringly fraught history of 'Macbeth' in the United States, from its appearance as the first Shakespearean play documented in the American colonies to a proposed Hollywood film version with a black diasporic cast. Over two dozen contributions explore 'Macbeth's' haunting presence in American drama, poetry, film, music, history, politics, acting, and directing — all through the intersections of race and performance.

Ms-Directing Shakespeare

Author : Elizabeth Schafer
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312227463
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (274 download)

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Download or read book Ms-Directing Shakespeare written by Elizabeth Schafer and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-05-19 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published in Great Britain by the Women's Press Ltd., 1998"--Title page verso.

Shakespeare and Audience in Practice

Author : Stephen Purcell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137375256
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Audience in Practice written by Stephen Purcell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do audiences do as they watch a Shakespearean play? What makes them respond in the ways that they do? This book examines a wide range of theatrical productions to explore the practice of being a modern Shakespearean audience. It surveys some of the most influential ideas about spectatorship in contemporary performance studies, and analyses the strategies employed both in the texts themselves and by modern theatre practitioners to position audiences in particular ways.

Of Human Kindness

Author : Paula Marantz Cohen
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300258321
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Of Human Kindness written by Paula Marantz Cohen and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning scholar and teacher explores how Shakespeare's greatest characters were built on a learned sense of empathy While exploring Shakespeare's plays with her students, Paula Marantz Cohen discovered that teaching and discussing his plays unlocked a surprising sense of compassion in the classroom. In this short and illuminating book, she shows how Shakespeare's genius lay with his ability to arouse empathy, even when his characters exist in alien contexts and behave in reprehensible ways. Cohen takes her readers through a selection of Shakespeare's most famous plays, including Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and The Merchant of Venice, to demonstrate the ways in which Shakespeare thought deeply and clearly about how we treat "the other." Cohen argues that only through close reading of Shakespeare can we fully appreciate his empathetic response to race, class, gender, and age. Wise, eloquent, and thoughtful, this book is a forceful argument for literature's power to champion what is best in us.

Unearthing Shakespeare

Author : Valerie Clayman Pye
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317208781
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Unearthing Shakespeare written by Valerie Clayman Pye and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can the Globe Theatre tell us about performing Shakespeare? Unearthing Shakespeare is the first book to consider what the Globe, today’s replica of Shakespeare’s theatre, can contribute to a practical understanding of Shakespeare’s plays. Valerie Clayman Pye reconsiders the material evidence of Early Modern theatre-making, presenting clear, accessible discussions of historical theatre practice; stages and staging; and the relationship between actor and audience. She relays this into a series of training exercises for actors at all levels. From "Shakesball" and "Telescoping" to Elliptical Energy Training and The Radiating Box, this is a rich set of resources for anyone looking to tackle Shakespeare with authenticity and confidence.