Verlag:
Manchester University Press,, Manchester, England ;
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Palgrave Macmillan,, New York, New York :
This book is a study of twenty stage productions, adaptations and screen versions of Shakespeare's final Roman play. It makes available for the first time sustained discussions of major productions of the play in four languages and five countries,...
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Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum
Fernleihe:
uneingeschränkte Fernleihe, Kopie und Ausleihe
This book is a study of twenty stage productions, adaptations and screen versions of Shakespeare's final Roman play. It makes available for the first time sustained discussions of major productions of the play in four languages and five countries, and explores how Shakespeare's most political drama has been shaped to circumstances radically different from its original early modern staging. The book offers in-depth analyses of Coriolanus productions covering the post-war era to the twenty-first century, combining close readings of documents and historical contextualisation to productions by the BBC, the Berliner Ensemble, The Katona József Theatre in communist Hungary, the Royal Shakespeare Company, Britain's National Theatre, The New York Shakespeare Festival, Robert Lepage, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre and Ralph Fiennes' major motion picture. This volume will be of interest to a wide range of readers, including specialists, graduate students and undergraduates studying both Coriolanus and the history of Shakespearean performance.
Shakespeare in Performance: Coriolanus -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- SERIES EDITORS' PREFACE -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CHAPTER I: Introduction - Coriolanus from the seventeenth to the twentieth century -- CHAPTER II: Olivier's Coriolanus -- CHAPTER III: Coriolanus and Brecht, 1951-71 -- CHAPTER IV: Brechtian vestiges and Shakespeare-plus-relevance - The RSC's Coriolanus 1972-73 -- CHAPTER V: Alan Howard on stage and screen -- CHAPTER VI: Shakespeare and Thatcher's England - The 1984-85 NT Coriolanus -- CHAPTER VII: Shakespeare and goulash communism - Coriolanus in Budapest in 1985 -- CHAPTER VIII: Shakespeare meets the American public - The 1988-89 NYSF Coriolanus -- CHAPTER IX: Québécois Shakespeare goes global - Robert Lepage's Coriolan -- CHAPTER X: Bringing Shakespeare home or settling in comfortably? The new Globe's 2006 Coriolanus -- CHAPTER XI: Coriolanus as failed action hero -- NOTES -- APPENDIX: Major actors and staff for twentieth- and twenty-first twenty-century productions discussed in this volume -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Index.
Verlag:
Manchester University Press,, Manchester, UK :
This book examines the modern performance history of one of Shakespeare's best-loved and most enduring comedies, and one that has given opportunities for generations of theatre-makers and theatre-goers to explore the pleasures of pastoral, gender...
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Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Zentralbibliothek
Fernleihe:
uneingeschränkte Fernleihe, Kopie und Ausleihe
This book examines the modern performance history of one of Shakespeare's best-loved and most enduring comedies, and one that has given opportunities for generations of theatre-makers and theatre-goers to explore the pleasures of pastoral, gender masquerade and sexual ambiguity. Powered by Shakespeare's greatest female comic role, the play invites us into a deeply English woodland that has also been richly imagined as a space of dreams. The study retrieves the untold stories of stage productions in Britain, France and Germany, which include Royal Shakespeare Company productions starring Vanessa Redgrave, Eileen Atkins and Juliet Stevenson, the ground-breaking all-male productions at the National Theatre in 1967 and by Cheek by Jowl in 1992, and the versions directed by Jacques Copeau in Paris in 1934, and by Peter Stein in Berlin in 1977. It also addresses the four major screen versions of the play, ranging from Paul Czinner's 1936 film to Kenneth Branagh's seventy years later
1 online resource (239 pages) :,
illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).
Bemerkung(en):
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Play, parts and players -- Hunting for Arden in Warwickshire -- Materials of performance: denim and silk -- Between France and Germany -- At all points like a man -- Woeful pageants -- As we like it.
