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Playing Shakespeare (Methuen Paperback) (Paperback)
$12.09 - Save $1.91 (13%) - RRP $14.00 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Playing ShakespeareNow in its first American edition, Playing Shakespeare" "is the premier guide to understanding and appreciating the mastery of the world's greatest playwright. Together with Royal Shakespeare Company actors-among them Patrick Stewart, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Ben Kingsley, and David Suchet-John Barton demonstrates how to adapt Elizabethan theater for the modern stage. The director begins by expli...
Full description- Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
- Published: 01 August 2001
- Format: Paperback 288 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Theatre Studies | Dance & Other Performing Arts | Shakespeare Plays
- ISBN 13: 9780385720854 ISBN 10: 0385720858
- Sales rank: 68,417
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Full description for Playing Shakespeare
Now in its first American edition, Playing Shakespeare" "is the premier guide to understanding and appreciating the mastery of the world's greatest playwright. Together with Royal Shakespeare Company actors-among them Patrick Stewart, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Ben Kingsley, and David Suchet-John Barton demonstrates how to adapt Elizabethan theater for the modern stage. The director begins by explicating Shakespeare's verse and prose, speeches and soliloquies, and naturalistic and heightened language to discover the essence of his characters. In the second section, Barton and the actors explore nuance in Shakespearean theater, from evoking irony and ambiguity and striking the delicate balance of passion and profound intellectual thought, to finding new approaches to playing Shakespeare's most controversial creation, Shylock, from The Merchant of Venice. A practical and essential guide, Playing Shakespeare" "will stand for years as the authoritative favorite among actors, scholars, teachers, and students.
