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King Lear

Autor Eric Rasmussen, Jonathan Bate
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 23 apr 2009 – vârsta de la 12 ani
From the Royal Shakespeare Company, this fresh edition offers new insight into Shakespeare's dark tragedy through interviews with leading directors Adrian Noble, Trevor Nunn and Deborah Warner, outstanding scene-by-scene analysis and on-page notes, and a thought-provoking new introduction from celebrated scholar Jonathan Bate.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780230576131
ISBN-10: 0230576133
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 206 x 140 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Ediția:2009 edition
Editura: BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC
Locul publicării:Basingstoke, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction
About the Text
Key Facts
The Tragedy of King Lear
Textual Notes
Quarto Passages that do not Appear in the Folio
Scene-by-scene Analysis
King Lear in Performance: The RSC and Beyond
Four Centuries of King Lear: An Overview
At the RSC
The Director's Cut: Interviews with Adrian Noble, Trevor Nunn and Deborah Warner
Shakespeare's Career in the Theatre
Shakespeare's Works: A Chronology
Further Reading and Viewing
Acknowledgements and Picture Credits

Notă biografică

JONATHAN BATE is Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature, University of Warwick, UK, and the editor of The 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, including The 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 of The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works. He is co-editor of the Norton Anthology of English Renaissance Drama and 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 the Shakespeare Survey.

Caracteristici

This is the first edition of King Lear to be developed by and for the RSC, the world's leading Shakespeare theatre company and it includes unique material to help the reader understand and enjoy Shakespeare on the stage as well as on the page
Illustrated with photographs of classic and unusual performances
Outstanding on-page notes which explain words and phrases unfamiliar to a modern audience, including the slang, political references and bawdy humour often ignored or censored in competing editions
Includes scene-by-scene summary, offering an easily understandable way into the play
Completely new introduction by Jonathan Bate, exploring the text and critical debates around it
Summary of the play's performance history, at the RSC and elsewhere
Interviews with important Shakespearean directors Adrian Noble, Trevor Nunn and Deborah Warner discussing key productions at the RSC