Shakespeare and early modern drama : text and performance /
Where does Shakespeare fit into the drama of his day? Getting to know the work of Shakespeare's contemporaries offers an insight into Elizabethan and Jacobean preoccupations and the theatrical climate of the early modern period. This book provides an essential overview of some major dramatic wo...
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
2016
London : Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, an imprint of Bloomsbury publishing plc, 2016 |
| Series: | Drama and performance studies
Drama and performance studies |
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Table of Contents:
- Romeo and Juliet
- Getting over the language: William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996)
- "The duchess of Malfi"
- Moving performances: Malfi at the Blackfriars and the globe
- "The merchant of Venice"
- Playing the Jew: Al Pacino in the Michael Radford's "The merchant of Venice" (2004)
- "Volpone, or the Fox"
- "Volpone as beast fable"
- "The taming of the shrew"
- Shakespeare goes to Hollywood: Burton and Taylor (1966)
- "The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry"
- Closet drama
- "Othello"
- Performing "Othello" in the twenty-first century
- "The Changeling"
- "Compulsion" (2009)
- "The Spanish Tragedy"
- Things on stage
- "Titus Andronicus"
- Julie Taymor's "Titus" and the aesthetics fo revenge
- "Measure for measure"
- Casting Isabella
- "Tis pity she's a whore"
- "The cook, the thief, his wife and her lover: Peter"
- Greenaway's theatre of blood
- "Doctor Faustus"
- Performing "Dr. Faustus": Stage on screen (2010)
- "Hamlet"
- A Soviet " Hamlet": Grigori Kozintsev (Lenfilm, 1964)