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  • Antony and Cleopatra

    by Bridget Escolme ...
    Series series Shakespeare Handbooks
    This handbook offers a way in to reading Anthony and Cleopatra theatrically. Through analyses of key productions, an account of the historical conditions in which the play was first produced, and a scene-by-scene account of how the play might be approached in performance, this book focuses on the challenges of staging the notorious lovers. ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • Talking to the Audience

    Shakespeare, Performance, Self

    by Bridget Escolme ...
    This unique study investigates the ways in which the staging convention of direct address - talking to the audience - can construct selfhood, for Shakespeare's characters. By focusing specifically on the relationship between performer and audience, Talking to the Audience examines what happens when the audience are in the presence of a dramatic figure who knows they are there. It is a book ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Shakespeare and Costume in Practice

    by Bridget Escolme ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    What is the role of costume in Shakespeare production? Shakespeare and Costume in Practice argues that costume design choices are central not only to the creation of period setting and the actor’s work on character, but to the cultural, political, and psychological meanings that the theatre makes of Shakespeare. The book explores questions about what the first Hamlet looked like in his mourning ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Coriolanus

    by Bridget Escolme ...
    Series series The New Cambridge Shakespeare
    The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. This second edition of Coriolanus, edited by Lee Bliss, provides a thorough ... Read more

    $11.89 USD

  • Shakespeare in the Theatre Phyllida Lloyd

    by Professor Elizabeth Schafer, David Bullen, Peter Holland, Bridget Escolme, Dr. Farah Karim Cooper ...
    Series series Shakespeare in the Theatre
    This volume examines the pioneering work of Phyllida Lloyd, whose all-female productions have revolutionised how Shakespeare's plays are performed in 21st-century Britain.Following Lloyd from her first Shakespeare in Cheltenham in 1986, this book explores her radical casting practices and the importance of her collaborative rehearsal approach. While her 2003 all-female Taming of the Shrew at ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Laughter, Power, and the Unconscious

    Researching Emotional Responses in a Contemporary Audience Spectating Early Modern Comedy at Shakespeare's Globe

    by Maria Grazia Turri, Bridget Escolme ...
    Series series Audience Research
    Laughter, Power, and the Unconscious offers paradigm-breaking insights into the psychological and sociopolitical dimensions of humour and comedy. Based on an innovative audience experiment at Shakespeare's Globe, the authors develop a revolutionary theory of humour as manic defence, challenging Freud's classic formulations while engaging with contemporary humour theories.The text explores three ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Shakespeare in the Theatre: Sarah Siddons and John Philip Kemble

    by Fiona Ritchie, Peter Holland, Dr. Farah Karim Cooper, Bridget Escolme ...
    Series series Shakespeare in the Theatre
    Siblings Sarah Siddons (1755–1831) and John Philip Kemble (1757–1823) were the most famous British actors of the late-18th and early-19th centuries. Through their powerful acting and meticulous conceptualisation of Shakespeare's characters and their worlds, they created iconic interpretations of Shakespeare's major roles that live on in our theatrical and cultural memory. This book examines the ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Shakespeare in the Theatre: Yukio Ninagawa

    by Conor Hanratty, Dr. Farah Karim Cooper, Peter Holland, Bridget Escolme ...
    Series series Shakespeare in the Theatre
    Yukio Ninagawa (1935–2016) was Japan's foremost director of Shakespeare whose productions were acclaimed around the world. His work was lauded for its spectacular imagery, its inventive use of Japanese iconography and its striking fusion of Eastern and Western theatre traditions.Over a career spanning six decades, Ninagawa directed 31 of Shakespeare's plays, many of them, including Hamlet, on ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Earthquakes in London

    by Mike Bartlett, Bridget Escolme ...
    Series series Student Editions
    It's Cabaret, we've got our heads down and we're dancing and drinking as fast as we can. The enemy is on its way, but this time it doesn't have guns and gas it has storms and earthquakes, fire and brimstone.... You were the glimmer. At the end of the tunnel. And you went out.Earthquakes in London is a fast and furious metropolitan crash of people, scenes and decades, as three sisters attempt to ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

  • Shakespeare and the Making of Theatre

    Edited by Dr Paul Edmondson, Bridget Escolme ...
    A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of literature. Leading performance critics dismantle Shakespeare's texts, identifying theatrical cues in ways which develop understanding of the underlying theatricality of Shakespeare's plays and stimulate further performances. ... Read more

    $33.19 USD