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The Routledge Companion to Directors' Shakespeare
Edited by John Russell Brown
The Routledge Companion to Directors' Shakespeare is a major collaborative book about plays in performance. Thirty authoritative accounts describe in illuminating detail how some of theatre’s most talented directors have brought Shakespeare’s texts to the stage. Each chapter has a revealing story...
April 2010 | 978-0-415-57767-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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How to do Shakespeare
By Adrian Noble
'Adrian Noble vigorously highlights the extraordinary rhythmic, linguistic patterns Shakespeare gives the speaker. Any actor will find this book invaluable. For any student of Shakespeare it should be essential.' (From the Foreword by Ralph Fiennes) 'How can I bring the text alive, make it vivid,...
November 2009 | 978-0-415-54927-1 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Inside the Royal Shakespeare Company: Creativity and the Institution
By Colin Chambers
2008 | 978-0-415-46065-1 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Gothic Shakespeares
Edited by John Drakakis, Dale Townshend
Readings of Shakespeare were both influenced by and influential in the rise of Gothic forms in literature and culture from the late eighteenth century onwards. Shakespeare’s plays are full of ghosts, suspense, fear-inducing moments and cultural anxieties which many writers in the Gothic mode have...
2008 | 978-0-415-42067-9 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Shakespeare and the Problem of Adaptation
By Margaret Jane Kidnie
'Kidnie's study presents original, sophisticated, and profoundly intelligent answers to important questions.' - Lukas Erne, University of Geneva 'This is a fine and productive book, one that will surely draw significant attention and commentary well beyond the precincts of Shakespeare studies.' -...
2008 | 978-0-415-30868-7 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Shakespeare's Dramatic Heritage: Collected Studies in Mediaeval, Tudor and Shakespearean Drama
By Glynne Wickham
Shakespeare's Dramatic Heritage shows that the drama of Elizabethan and Jacobean England is deeply indebted to the religious drama of the Middle Ages and represents a climax, in secular guise, to mediaeval experiment and achievement rather than a new beginning. This is fully examined in terms of...
2008 | 978-0-415-48902-7 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Shakespeare's Rhetoric of Comic Character
By Karen Newman
First published in 1985. In this revisionist history of comic characterization, Karen Newman argues that, contrary to received opinion, Shakespeare was not the first comic dramatist to create self-conscious characters who seem 'lifelike' or 'realistic'. His comic practice is firmly set within a...
2008 | 978-0-415-48908-9 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Shakespeare in French Theory: King of Shadows
By Richard Wilson
At a time when the relevance of literary theory itself is frequently being questioned, Richard Wilson makes a compelling case for French Theory in Shakespeare Studies. Written in two parts, the first half looks at how French theorists such as Bourdieu, Cixous, Deleuze, Derrida and Foucault were...
2006 | 978-0-415-42165-2 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Acting from Shakespeare's First Folio: Theory, Text and Performance
By Don Weingust
Acting from Shakespeare's First Folio examines a series of techniques for reading and performing Shakespeare's plays that are based on the texts of the first ‘complete’ volume of Shakespeare's works: the First Folio of 1623. Do extra syllables in a line suggest how it might be played? Can Folio...
2006 | 978-0-415-97916-0 | Paperback (Routledge)