William Shakespeare: Writing for Performance
by John Russell Brown
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Written for performance, Shakespeare's plays are very different texts from any intended for a reader with book in hand and they require a different kind of attention. John Russell Brown's latest book attempts a description of Shakespeare's distinctive practice as a writer for the stage and, in doing so, suggests ways of responding to the plays which bring them alive in the mind as if in performance. It is a book for use, to quicken both eye and ear while reading the texts and to enliven show more almost any critical debate. show lessTags
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I t is hard to know who this book is aimed at. Not simple enough for school use but insufficiently aware of current scholarly debates it has no obvious readership. Young actors looking for a primer in approaching the plays would find some of it useful, but Brown has written better elsewhere. Finally, one used to expect higher standards of proof-reading from a firm like Macmillan.
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John Russell Brown is Honorary Visiting Professor at University College London in the UK, and has held chairs of English and Theatre in both England and the USA.He has directed renaissance and contemporary plays in student and professional theatres for twelve years he was an Associate Director of the Royal National Theatre in London, UK. He is show more series editor for The Shakespeare Handbooks and Theatres of the World, as well as editing and contributing to the Oxford Illustrated History of Theatre. Among his previous publications are Shakespeare: The Tragedies, Shakespeare and the Theatrical Event and Shakespeare Dancing, all published by Palgrave Macmillan. show less
Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- William Shakespeare: Writing for Performance
- Original publication date
- 1996-05-01
Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism, Poetry
- DDC/MDS
- 822.33 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English drama 1558-1625 Elizabethan period William Shakespeare
- LCC
- PR2995 .B74 — Language and Literature English English Literature English renaissance (1500-1640)
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 5
