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A Midsummer Night's Dream: The RSC Shakespeare

Autor Eric Rasmussen, Jonathan Bate
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 aug 2008
From the Royal Shakespeare Company – a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare’s most loved comedy. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview ofA Midsummer Night’s Dreamin performance, takes a detailed look at specific productions, and recommends film versions. Included in this edition are three interviews with leading directors Michael Boyd, Gregory Doran and Tim Supple, providing an illuminating insight into the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible. This edition also includes an essay on Shakespeare’s career and Elizabethan theatre, and enables the reader to understand the play as it was originally intended – as living theatre to be enjoyed and performed. Ideal for students, theatre-goers, actors and general readers, the RSC Shakespeare editions offer a fresh, accessible and contemporary approach to reading and rediscovering Shakespeare’s works for the twenty-first century.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780230217881
ISBN-10: 0230217885
Pagini: 184
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Ediția:2008
Editura: Macmillan Education UK
Colecția Red Globe Press
Seria The RSC Shakespeare

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Descriere

From the Royal Shakespeare Company, this fresh new edition of Shakespeare's most loved comedy presents a historical overview ofA Midsummer Night's Dreamin performance, recommends film versions, takes a detailed look at specific productions and includes interviews with three leading Directors – Michael Boyd, Gregory Doran and Tim Supple.

Cuprins

Introduction to the Play.- Magical thinking.- Metamorphosis.- The Festive World.- 'The poet's eye ... the poet's pen'.- Introduction to the Text.- Key Facts.- A Midsummer Night's Dream.- Textual Notes.- Scene-by-Scene Analysis.- A Midsummer Night's Dream in Performance: The RSC and Beyond.- Four Centuries of the Dream: An Overview.- At the Royal Shakespeare Company.- The Director's Cut: Interviews with Michael Boyd, Gregory Doran, Tim Supple.- Shakespeare's Career in the Theatre.- Shakespeare's Works: A Chronology.- Further Reading and Viewing.- Acknowledgements and Picture Credits.

Notă biografică

SIR JONATHAN BATE is Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature, University of Warwick, UK, and the editor ofThe RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works. He has held visiting posts at Harvard, Yale and UCLA and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Fellow of the British Academy, an Honorary Fellow of St Catherine's College, Cambridge, and a Governor and Board member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. A prominent critic, award-winning biographer and broadcaster, he is the author of several books on Shakespeare, includingThe Genius of Shakespeare(Picador), which was praised by Sir Peter Hall, founder of the RSC, as "the best modern book on Shakespeare." In June 2006 he was awarded a CBE by HM The Queen 'for services to Higher Education'.

ERIC RASMUSSEN is Professor of English at the University of Nevada, USA, and the Textual Editor ofThe RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works. He is co-editor of theNorton Anthology of English Renaissance Dramaand has edited volumes in both the Arden Shakespeare and Oxford World's Classics series. He is the General Textual Editor of the Internet Shakespeare Editions project - one of the most visited Shakespeare websites in the world. For over nine years he has written the annual review of editions and textual studies for theShakespeare Survey.

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From the Royal Shakespeare Company – a fresh new edition of Shakespeare's most loved comedy.
 
This book includes:
               
*  An introduction toA Midsummer Night's Dreamby award-winning scholarJonathan Bate
*  The play – with clear explanatory notes on each page
*  A scene-by-scene analysis 
*  An introduction to Shakespeare's career and the Elizabethan theatre
*  A rich exploration of approaches to staging the play
 
The most enjoyable way to understand a Shakespeare play is to see it or participate in it. This book presents a historical overview ofA Midsummer Night's Dreamin performance, recommends film versions, takes a detailed look at specific productions and includes interviews with three leading Directors –Michael Boyd,Gregory Doran andTim Supple– so that we may get a sense of the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible - a variety that gives Shakespeare his unique capacity to be reinvented and made 'our contemporary' four centuries after his death.
 
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Caracteristici

  • An exemplary introduction toA Midsummer Night's Dreamby award-winning scholar Sir Jonathan Bate
  • The play – with clear and authoritative explanatory notes on each page
  • A helpful scene-by-scene analysis and key facts about the play
  • A rich exploration of approaches to staging the play
  • Photographs of classic or unusual performances illustrate different interpretations open to actors or directors
  • Interviews with directors Michael Boyd, Gregory Doran and Tim Supple
  • An introduction to Shakespeare's career and the Elizabethan theatre
  • A key facts 'box' summarizing the plot, major roles, language and sources
  • A clear, single-column page design
  • Recommendations for further reading on key critical approaches and the play in performance, along with recommended viewing