Shakespeare in Performance

Name: Shakespeare in Performance
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ISBN: 9780312090166

ISBN-10: 0312090161

ISBN-13: 9780312090166

Edition: 1993

Authors: Ralph Berry

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"These studies of Shakespeare in performance take stage history as a means of knowing the play. Half of the studies deal with casting, the immediate 'how' of production: doubling, Chorus and the crowd, the star of Hamlet and Measure for Measure. The transformations of Dramatis Personae are analysed, and The Tempest is viewed through the changing relationships of Prospero, Ariel and Caliban. Some of Shakespeare's most original strategies for controlling the audience are analysed. Cordelia, through her two early soliloquies, tells us what to think. The audience of Richard II is encouraged, through its subversive laughter, to take another view of the action. The scenic alternation of pleasure…

Book details

Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 194
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Preface
Acknowledgements
Hamlet's Doubles	p. 1
Doubling: Theory and Practice	p. 15
Casting the Chorus	p. 27
Casting the Crowd: Coriolanus in Performance	p. 41
Casting Hamlet: Two Traditions	p. 57
Lear's System and Cordelia's Aside: Leading the Audience	p. 67
Laughter in King Richard II: The Subplot of Mood	p. 83
Metamorphoses of the Audience	p. 95
Dramatis Personae	p. 105
Measure for Measure: Casting the Star	p. 119
Within the Bermuda Triangle: Reflections on Recent Tempests	p. 127
Falstaff's Space: The Tavern as Pastoral	p. 141
Notes	p. 155
Index	p. 167
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