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Players of Shakespeare 3

Author: Russell Jackson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9780521477345

Thirteen actors describe the Shakespearean roles they played with the Royal Shakespeare Company between 1987 and 1991. The anthology includes the Company's highly successful adaptation of the Henry VI plays retitled The Plantagenets.

Playing Shakespeare

Author: John Barton

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2010-11-10

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 0307773914

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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.

Shakespeare the Player

Author: John Southworth

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2011-10-21

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 0752472445

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Man of the Millennium' he may be but William Shakespeare is a shadowy historical figures. His writings have been analysed exhaustively but much of his life remains a mystery. This controversial biography aims to redress the balance. To his contemporaries, Shakespeare was known not as a playwright but as an actor, yet this has been largely ignored or marginalised by most modern writers. here John Southworth overturns traditional images of the Bard and his work, arguing that Shakespeare cannot be separated from his profession as a player any more than he can be separated from his works. Only by approaching Shakespeare's life from this new angle can we hope to learn or understand anything new about him. Following Shakespeare's life as an actor as he learns his craft and begins work on his own plays, Southworth presents the Bard and his plays in their proper context for the first time. Groundbreaking, contentious and a work of deep scholarship and understanding, 'Shakespeare the Player' should change the way we think about the English language's greatest artist.

Players of Shakespeare 5

Author: Robert Smallwood

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-12-08

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780521811316

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The fifth volume in this popular series of essays by actors with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre.

Shakespeare and the Middle Ages

Author: Martha W. Driver

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2014-01-10

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 0786491655

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Every generation reinvents Shakespeare for its own needs, imagining through its particular choices and emphases the Shakespeare that it values. The man himself was deeply involved in his own kind of historical reimagining. This collection of essays examines the playwright's medieval sources and inspiration, and how they shaped his works. With a foreword by Michael Almereyda (director of the Hamlet starring Ethan Hawke) and dramaturge Dakin Matthews, these thirteen essays analyze the ways in which our modern understanding of medieval life has been influenced by our appreciation of Shakespeare's plays.