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Performing Shakespeare's Tragedies Today: The Actor's Perspective
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Performing Shakespeare's Tragedies Today: The Actor's Perspective
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| Authors and Contributors |
Edited by Michael Dobson
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:154 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152 |
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| Category/Genre | Drama |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780521671224
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| Classifications | Dewey:792.95 |
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| Audience | | Tertiary Education (US: College) | | Professional & Vocational | | General | |
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| Illustrations |
10 Halftones, unspecified
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Cambridge University Press
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| Imprint |
Cambridge University Press
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| Publication Date |
30 November 2006 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
What does it mean to perform Shakespeare's Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedies in the modern theatre? This book brings together the reflections of a number of major classical actors on how these works can most powerfully be realized for today's audiences. Concentrating on the 'great' tragedies - Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth and King Lear - the actors offer unique insights into some of the most demanding and rewarding roles in world drama, by showing what it is like to play them on stage. Ten perceptive and articulate performers reflect on their experiences of ten major roles: the Ghost, Gertrude and Hamlet; Iago, Emilia and Othello; Lady Macbeth and Macbeth; Lear's Fool, and King Lear. Together, these essays provide a peculiarly intimate set of trade secrets about what techniques, ideas and memories actors may use when approaching tragic roles in Shakespeare's most challenging plays.
Author Biography
Michael Dobson is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London.
Reviews'All of the contributors are talented and well-informed raconteurs.' Journal of NTQ
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