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Author Esche, Edward J

Title Shakespeare and his Contemporaries in Performance
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (377 pages)
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Editor's Preface -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 Shakespeare and Cultural Tourism -- SHAKESPEARE ON FILM -- 1 The Recent Films -- 2 (En)Gendering Desire in Performance: King Lear, Akira Kurosawa's Ran, Tadashi Suzuki's The Tale of Lear -- NINETEENTH- AND TWENTIETH-CENTURY CONTEXTS -- 3 Touring in Asia: The Miln Company's Shakespearean Productions in Japan -- 4 Interculturalism or Indigenization: Modes of Exchange, Shakespeare East and West -- 5 Berlin-Zürich-Düsseldorf: Aspects of German Theatre During the Nazi Period and After -- 6 Gentlemen You Are Welcome to Elsinore: Hamlet in Performance at Kronborg Castle, Elsinore -- 7 Culture Clustering, Gender Crossing: Hamlet Meets Globalization in Robert Lepage's Elsinore -- 8 'The Homestead of History': Shakespearean Medievalism on the Mid-Victorian Stage -- RENAISSANCE CONTEXTS -- 9 Falstaff's Page as Early Modern Youth at Risk -- 10 Fashion, Nation and Theatre in Late Sixteenth-Century London -- 11 The Italian Job: The Poetics of Graced Performance in the Commedia dell'Arte and in Jonson's Humour Plays -- 12 The True Physiognomy of a Man: Richard Tarlton and His Legend -- 13 ''Tis a pageant / To keep us in false gaze': Othello, Virtual History and the Jacobean Audience's Turkish Expectations -- FROM TEXT TO PERFORMANCE -- 14 Don Pedro, Don John and Don ... who? -- Noting a Stranger in Much Adoodle-do -- 15 'The Silent Griefs Which Cut the Heart Strings': John Ford's The Broken Heart in Performance -- 16 Cunning with Pistols: Observations on Gale Edwards's 1996-7 RSC Production of John Webster's The White Devil -- 17 The Nineteenth-Century Productions of A Yorkshire Tragedy (1608) -- 18 The Magnetick Lady: Is the Unperformed Performable? -- FEMALE ROLES
19 'A Woman's generall: what should we feare?': Queen Margaret Thatcherized in Recent Productions of 3 Henry VI -- 20 The Disappearing Queen: Looking for Isabel in Henry V -- Index
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Subject Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781351900836
1351900838