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  • The Winter's Tale: Arden Performance Editions

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Series series Arden Performance Editions
    One of Shakespeare's last plays, The Winter's Tale provides tragedy and comedy in equal measure. The King of Sicily, Leontes, accuses Queen Hermione, his wife, of adultery and sets off a series of events driven by royal betrayal, jealousy and the possibility of pastoral love that builds to a fantastical ending.Arden Performance Editions are ideal for anyone engaging with a Shakespeare play in ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • As You Like It

    by Robert Shaughnessy ...
    Series series Shakespeare in Performance
    This book examines the modern performance history of one of Shakespeare's best-loved and most enduring comedies, and one that has given opportunities for generations of theatre-makers and theatre-goers to explore the pleasures of pastoral, gender masquerade and sexual ambiguity. Powered by Shakespeare's greatest female comic role, the play invites us into a deeply English woodland that has also ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Popular Culture

    Edited by Robert Shaughnessy ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This Companion explores the remarkable variety of forms that Shakespeare's life and works have taken over the course of four centuries, ranging from the early modern theatrical marketplace to the age of mass media, and including stage and screen performance, music and the visual arts, the television serial and popular prose fiction. The book asks what happens when Shakespeare is popularized, and ... Read more

    Was $33.99 USD Now $28.69 USD

  • About Shakespeare

    Bodies, Spaces and Texts

    by Robert Shaughnessy ...
    Series series Elements in Shakespeare Performance
    This Element addresses the question of what Shakespeare in contemporary performance is about, and whether it really is, as it may claim to be, about Shakespeare. Far from charting a smooth journey from page to stage, the work of making Shakespeare into performances often involves deflection, evasion and circumnavigation. Drawing upon the work of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare's Globe ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • The Routledge Guide to William Shakespeare

    by Robert Shaughnessy ...
    Demystifying and contextualising Shakespeare for the twenty-first century, this book offers both an introduction to the subject for beginners as well as an invaluable resource for more experienced Shakespeareans.In this friendly, structured guide, Robert Shaughnessy:introduces Shakespeare’s life and works in context, providing crucial historical backgroundlooks at each of Shakespeare’s plays in ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Four Renaissance Comedies

    by Robert Shaughnessy ...
    This edition of four Renaissance comedies represents the vitality, range and diversity of the English comic drama of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, reflecting both its capacity for escapist fantasy and its concern with the intrigues of everyday city life. Comprehensive textual notes establish the plays in their originating cultural and theatrical circumstances, as well as ... Read more

    $141.79 USD

  • Representing Shakespeare

    England, History and the RSC

    by Robert Shaughnessy ...
    This text traces the changing theatrical and cultural identity of the History plays in the context of postwar social and political conflict, crisis and change. Since the company's inception in the early 1960s, the RSC's commitment to relevance has fostered close relationships between Shakespearean criticism and performance, and between the theatre and its audiences. Through a detailed discussion ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Shakespeare in the Theatre: The National Theatre, 1963–1975

    Olivier and Hall

    by Robert Shaughnessy ...
    Series series Shakespeare in the Theatre
    The National Theatre's years at the Old Vic were the most Shakespearean period in its history, one which included Laurence Olivier's Othello and Shylock, a radical all-male As You Like It, the Berliner Ensemble's Coriolanus and Tom Stoppard's classic offshoot, Rosencrantz and Guildernstern are Dead. Drawing extensively upon the company archives, this book tells the interlinked stories of the ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Shakespeare and Social Engagement

    Edited by Robert Shaughnessy, Rowan Mackenzie ...
    Series Book 10 - Shakespeare &
    Shakespeare’s roots in applied and participatory performance practices have been recently explored within a wide variety of educational, theatrical and community settings. Shakespeare and Social Engagement explores these settings, as well as audiences who have largely been excluded from existing accounts of Shakespeare’s performance history. The contributions in this collected volume explore the ... Read more

    Was $23.99 USD Now $18.99 USD

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  • My Life in Pieces

    An Alternative Autobiography

    by Simon Callow ...
    An alternative autobiography of the well-loved actor and man of the theatre, winner of the Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography.In My Life in Pieces Simon Callow retraces his life through the multifarious performers, writers, productions and events which have left their indelible mark on him.The story begins with Peter Pan – his first ever visit to the theatre – before transporting us to ... Read more

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  • Balancing Acts

    Behind the Scenes at London's National Theatre

    by Nicholas Hytner ...
    From the Tony Award and Laurence Olivier Award-winning former director of London's National Theatre--this is a fascinating, candid, eloquent memoir about his career directing theater, producing films and opera, and working closely with some of the world's most celebrated actors.The list of Nicholas Hytner's accomplishments is long and distinguished: as Artistic Director of London's National ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Actors' Shakespeare

    Edited by John Russell Brown ...
    Series series Routledge Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Actors’ Shakespeare is a window onto how today’s actors contribute to the continuing life and relevance of Shakespeare’s plays.The process of acting is notoriously hard to document, but this volume reaches behind famous performances to examine the actors’ craft, their development and how they engage with playtexts. Each chapter relies upon privilieged access to its ... Read more

    $52.99 USD