Shakespeare in Performance: A Collection of EssaysFrank Occhiogrosso The essays in this book deal with the nature of performance criticism, performance history, state and screen productions of Shakespeare and the physical playhouse. These essays, by John Russell Brown, James Bulman, Ralph Berry, Herbert Coursen, Jay Halio, James Lusardi, June Schlueter, Harry Keyishian, Alan Dessen, Pauline Kiernan, and Marvin Rosenberg, represent some of the best current thinking on the roles of performance in criticism of Shakespeare. |
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... Elizabethan theater such as can be found in the books of Bernard Beckerman , Andrew Gurr , and Alan Dessen . And finally there is what is perhaps the richest area of exploration , that which studies performance itself and therefore pays ...
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Contents
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Shakespeare in Performance Study and Criticism | 15 |
Shylock Antonio and the Politics of Performance | 27 |
The Merchant of Venice | 47 |
Romeo and Juliet in Performance | 58 |
I Have done the deed Macbeth 22 | 71 |
Disguise in Trevor Nunns Twelfth Night | 84 |
Patterns of Imagery in Stuart Burges Julius Caesar | 93 |
Teaching Whats Not There | 104 |
The New Globe | 113 |
Tracking Performance Criticism of Shakespeare | 123 |
Bibliography | 137 |
List of Contributors | 141 |
Index | 142 |
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