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Troilus And Cressida

by Stephen Purcell

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 A history of Shakespeareâ€™s play in performance, from John Drydenâ€™s Restoration adaptation to the rediscovery of the play in the twentieth century. -- .
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The Merchant Of Venice

by Boika Sokolova e Kirilka Stavreva

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 This book offers essential reading on a wide array of theatre and film productions of Shakespeareâ€™s play The Merchant of Venice. Richly contextualised analyses of individual productions by major directors help produce a nuanced picture of the performance history of the play, guiding the reader from the 1930s through the early twenty-first century. -- .
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As You Like It

by Robert Shaughnessy

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 A detailed account of the performance history of As You Like It through the modern period, focusing on landmark stage and film productions. -- .
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Coriolanus

by Robert Ormsby

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 A study of twenty stage productions, adaptations and screen versions of Shakespeareâ€™s final Roman play -- .
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Julius Caesar

by Andrew Hartley

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 Presents a performance history of a controversial play, moving from its 1599 opening all the way into the new millennium with particular emphasis on its twentieth- and twenty-first-century incarnations on stage and screen -- .
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Titus Andronicus

by Michael Friedman

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 The second edition of Friedman's stage history of Shakespeareâ€™s Titus Andronicus adds an examination of twelve major theatrical productions and one film that appeared in the years 1989-2009, identifying four lines of descent in the recent performance history of the play: the stylised, realistic, darkly comic, and political approaches. -- .
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Antony And Cleopatra

by Carol Chillington Rutter

112,63€ + 10% CARD

 This books looks at Antony and Cleopatra in performance from 1606 to 2018, examining how actors, directors and designers pick up the play's themes of desire and delinquency, exoticism and erotic politics to locate the most ambituous love story ever told in a new present. Is the play tragedy? Comedy? Farce? Rutter shows it's all three. -- .
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As You Like It

by Robert Shaughnessy

114,91€ + 10% CARD

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 A detailed account of the performance history of As You Like It through the modern period, focusing on landmark stage and film productions. -- .
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The Tempest

by Virginia Vaughan

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 â€˜The Tempestâ€™: Shakespeare in Performance situates the playâ€™s 400-year performance history within ever-changing cultural contexts, and supplements historical analysis of particular productions with information about contemporary appropriations and adaptations. -- .

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Coriolanus

by Robert Ormsby

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 A study of twenty stage productions, adaptations and screen versions of Shakespeareâ€™s final Roman play -- .
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King Lear

by Alexander Leggatt

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 Through a study of ten modern stage and screen productions of 'King Lear', this book examines the way performance and interpretation are bound together, and shows how different performances have illuminated the contradictions in this play. The updated second edition has new chapters on Ian Holm's television performance, and Akira Kurosawa's 'Ran'. -- .
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The Henry Vi Plays

by Carol Chillington Rutter e Stuart Hampton-Reeves

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 The Henry VI plays are Shakespeareâ€™s earliest, most theatrically exciting plays and in their day, they were among his most popular works. This is the first major study of the Henry VI plays in performance, and focuses on the cultural context of modern British productions which have explored Shakespeareâ€™s troubling depiction of England. -- .
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Macbeth

by Bernice W. Kliman

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 This title explores the myriad decisions directors and actors make to produce a version of Shakespeare's play. It's full discussions of eighteen productions from the UK, Italy, Japan and the US empower readers to appreciate the many choices Shakespeare's text supports. -- .
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The Henry Vi Plays

by Carol Chillington Rutter e Stuart Hampton-Reeves

33,80€ + 10% CARD

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 The Henry VI plays are Shakespeareâ€™s earliest, most theatrically exciting plays and in their day, they were among his most popular works. This is the first major study of the Henry VI plays in performance, and focuses on the cultural context of modern British productions which have explored Shakespeareâ€™s troubling depiction of England. -- .
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Othello

by Lois Potter

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 "Othello", with its racism, jealousy and sexual stereotyping seems most immediate to contemporary audiences. This work traces Othello's acting tradition as it has affected the roles of Othello, Desdemona and Iago - demonstrating the emphasis placed on different characters in different countries.
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A Midsummer Night'S Dream

by Jay Halio

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 After an historical survey of A Midsummer Night's Dream fromShakespeare's time through to the 19th century, Jay Halio focuses primarily on20th century productions and adaptations, for film and television as well asfor the stage. -- .
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Antony And Cleopatra

by Carol Chillington Rutter

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 This books looks at Antony and Cleopatra in performance from 1606 to 2018, examining how actors, directors and designers pick up the play's themes of desire and delinquency, exoticism and erotic politics to locate the most ambituous love story ever told in a new present. Is the play tragedy? Comedy? Farce? Rutter shows it's all three. -- .
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The Merchant Of Venice

by Boika Sokolova e Kirilka Stavreva

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 This book offers essential reading on a wide array of theatre and film productions of Shakespeareâ€™s play The Merchant of Venice. Richly contextualised analyses of individual productions by major directors help produce a nuanced picture of the performance history of the play, guiding the reader from the 1930s through the early twenty-first century. -- .
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Antony And Cleopatra

by Carol Chillington Rutter

109,44€

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 This books looks at Antony and Cleopatra in performance from 1606 to 2018, examining how actors, directors and designers pick up the play's themes of desire and delinquency, exoticism and erotic politics to locate the most ambituous love story ever told in a new present. Is the play tragedy? Comedy? Farce? Rutter shows it's all three. -- .
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Julius Caesar

by Andrew Hartley

114,91€

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 Presents a performance history of a controversial play, moving from its 1599 opening all the way into the new millennium with particular emphasis on its twentieth- and twenty-first-century incarnations on stage and screen -- .
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Household Servants In Early Modern England

by R Richardson

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 Using a wide variety of sources this lively socio-cultural history examines household service, one of the largest, most multi-layered, most mobile and most indispensable sectors of employment in early modern England -- .
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"Henry V"

by James N. Loehlin

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 An examination of the profound changes that 20th-century performance has wrought on Shakespeare's complex drama of war and politics, "Henry V". It considers the play's political significance in Elizabethan London and provides analyses of several important modern productions.
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The Winter'S Tale

by Judith Dunbar

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 An excellent study of the performance of one of Shakespeare's perceived 'problem plays', complete with interview material with actors and directors, an awareness of global productions and an insight to theatrical art. -- .

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