Coriolanus on Stage in England and America, 1609-1994In a detailed study of the verbal "score, " including cuts, additions, alterations, actors' interpretations, and scenographic strategies, Ripley examines major British and North American efforts to popularize the play from 1609 to 1994. Sensitive to academic criticism, aesthetic theory, political and social history, and theater practice past and present, this study offers the most comprehensive account of Coriolanus's stage career to date. |
Contents
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From Tate to Thomson The Age of Propaganda 16811749 | 54 |
From Sheridan to Kemble The Making of a Production Tradition 17521817 | 95 |
The Kemble Tradition Challenged EllistonKean 1820 | 143 |
The Kemble Tradition in England 18191915 | 160 |
The Kemble Tradition in America 17961885 | 208 |
Modernism and Elizabethan Methodism 19201938 | 240 |
From Olivier to Olivier A Romantic Interlude 19381959 | 270 |
Psychoanalysis Politics and Postmodernity 19611994 | 299 |
Afterword | 334 |
Chronological Handlist of Performances 16091994 | 343 |
Notes | 367 |
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16 April 18 March action actors aesthetic Antium arrival in Antium audience Aufidius Aufidius's Banishment Brutus C-Cooper C-Kemble C-Vandenhoff character citizens Cominius contemporary Coriolanus Coriolanus's Corioli costume Covent Garden critic curtain Daily December Dennis Dennis's dramatic Drury Lane Elizabethan Elliston epic episode exit February Forrest grandeur hero heroic Ibid Intercession scene Irving Irving's Jacobean January John Philip Kemble June Kean Kemble tradition Kemble's lines Macready Macready's Manchester March Martius's Menenius Menenius's military mother November Old Vic Olivier ovation Park Theater patrician performance Phelps play play's political plebeians Poel's pride production promptbook proscenium Repeated reviewer revival role Roman Matron Rome script seems senators sequence Shake Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Shakespearian Sheridan Sicinius soldiers speech stage star Stratford Stratford-upon-Avon sword Tate Tate's theatergoer Theatre Royal theatrical Thomas Sheridan Thomson's tion tragedy tribunes Tullus upstage Veturia Virgilia visual Voices scene Volscian Volscian camp Volumnia Volusius William York Young Martius
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Page 16 - Dennis is offended, that Menenius, a senator of Rome, should play the buffoon; and Voltaire perhaps thinks decency violated when the Danish Usurper is represented as a drunkard. But Shakespeare always makes nature predominate over accident; and if he preserves the essential character, is not very careful of distinctions superinduced and adventitious. His story requires Romans or kings, but he thinks only on men.
Page 19 - Although the play of Cariolanus almost inevitably suggests a digression into the consideration of the politics of Shakspere, it must once again be asserted that the central and vivifying element in the play is not a political problem, but an individual character and life. The tragic struggle of the play is not that of patricians with plebeians, but of Coriolanus with his own self. It is not the Koman people who bring about his destruction ; it is the patrician haughtiness and passionate self-will...
Page 25 - This design is based on the main facts of the story, and these imply a certain character in the people and the hero. Since the issue is tragic, the conflict between them must be felt to be unavoidable and well-nigh hopeless. The necessity for dramatic sympathy with both sides demands that on both there should be some right and some wrong, both virtues and failings; and if the hero's monstrous purpose of destroying his native city is not to extinguish our sympathy, the provocation he receives must...
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