This Wide and Universal Theater

Shakespeare in Performance, Then and Now

Autor: David Bevington

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Editura: The University of Chicago Press

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Many readers first encounter Shakespeare's plays in a book rather than a theater. Yet Shakespeare wa...

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Autor

David Bevington

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engleză

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Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2009

Pagini

256

EAN

9780226044798

ISBN

0226044793

Enbook ID

04542559

Editura

The University of Chicago Press

Greutate

363

Dimensiuni

152 x 229 x 18

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Many readers first encounter Shakespeare's plays in a book rather than a theater. Yet Shakespeare was through and through a man of the stage. So what do we lose when we leave Shakespeare the practitioner behind, and what do we learn when we think about his plays as dramas to be performed? David Bevington answers these questions with "This Wide and Universal Theater", which explores how Shakespeare's plays were produced both in his own time and in succeeding centuries. Making use of historical documents and the play scripts themselves, Bevington brings Shakespeare's original stagings to life. He explains how the Elizabethan playhouse conveyed a sense of place using minimal scenery, from the Forest of Arden in "As You Like It" to the tavern in "Henry IV, Part I". Moving beyond Shakespeare's lifetime, Bevington shows the prodigious lengths to which eighteenth- and nineteenth-century companies went to produce spectacular effects, from flying witches in "Macbeth" to terrifying storms punctuating "King Lear". To bring the book into the present, Bevington considers recent productions on both stage and screen, when character and language have taken precedence over spectacle. This volume brings a lifetime of study to bear on a remarkably underappreciated aspect of Shakespeare's art.

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