Players of Shakespeare 6: Essays in the Performance of Shakespeare's History Plays - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521840880 ISBN 13: 9780521840880

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2004

Synopsis

This sixth volume of essays by members of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre is the first to focus on a single group of Shakespeare's plays. To celebrate the arrival of the new millennium the RSC presented productions of all eight of the history plays of the first and second Lancastrian tetralogies. Half of the twelve essays in this volume accordingly come from this important and historic cycle. Of the other six essays, from later productions, three are from the rarely performed King John, one from the even more rarely performed Edward III and the remaining two deal with the best-known title roles among the history plays, in two major recent independent productions of Henry V and Richard III. The contributors are Guy Henry, Kelly Hunter, Jo Stone-Fewings, David Rintoul, Samuel West, David Troughton, Nancy Carroll, Desmond Barrit, Adrian Lester, Fiona Bell, Richard Cordery, and Henry Goodman.

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Review:

'... rich and searching volume ...' The Times Literary Supplement

'The best efforts in this series are first rate.' Contemporary Review

Book Description:

This sixth volume of essays by members of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre is the first to focus on a single group of Shakespeare's plays. The productions represented cover the period 2000–2003 and the twelve essays discuss fourteen roles in ten plays.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0521840880
• ISBN 13: 9780521840880
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 236
• Editor: Smallwood Robert