Representing Shakespeare: England, History and the RSC - Softcover

Shaughnessy, Robert

 
9780745015606: Representing Shakespeare: England, History and the RSC
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0745015603 ISBN 13: 9780745015606
Publisher: Routledge, 1994

Synopsis

This text traces the changing theatrical and cultural identity of the History plays in the context of postwar social and political conflict, crisis and change. Since the company's inception in the early 1960s, the RSC's commitment to relevance has fostered close relationships between Shakespearean criticism and performance, and between the theatre and its audiences. Through a detailed discussion of key productions, from "The War of the Roses" in 1963 to "The Plantegenets" in 1988, Robert Shaughnessy emphasizes the political dimension of contemporary theatrical representations of Shakespeare, and of the "Shakespearean" modes of history that these plays have been employed to promote; individualist, cyclical, male-dominated, and driven by essentialised, transcendent human nature.

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About the Author

Robert Shaughnessy is Professor of Theatre at the University of Kent, UK.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
1994
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0745015603
ISBN 13 
9780745015606
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
240

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