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  • Troilus and Cressida

    by Stephen Purcell ...
    A history of Shakespeare’s play in performance, from John Dryden’s Restoration adaptation to the rediscovery of the play in the twentieth century. What made this play so relevant to audiences who had lived through the horrors of two world wars and the rise of fascism? Why did it speak so directly to the ‘angry young men’ of the post-war generation and to the countercultural movements of the 1960s? ... Read more

    $86.99 USD

  • Shakespeare in the Theatre: Shakespeare Theatre Company

    by Deborah C. Payne, Drew Lichtenberg, Dr. Farah Karim Cooper, Peter Holland, Stephen Purcell ...
    Series series Shakespeare in the Theatre
    Co-authored by the resident dramaturg at Shakespeare Theatre Company and a long-time scholarly consultant, this bookchronicles how a small repertory troupe at the Folger Theatre on Capitol Hill became an internationally renowned company performing in a lavish, multi-venue performing arts centre in downtown Washington, D.C.The artistic vision and business acumen of Michael Kahn, the founding ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Shakespeare in the Theatre: Tina Packer

    by Katharine Goodland, Peter Holland, Dr. Farah Karim Cooper, Stephen Purcell ...
    Series series Shakespeare in the Theatre
    This book examines the work of acclaimed director Tina Packer, founder of Shakespeare & Company, whose ground-breaking approach to performing Shakespeare has made her company among the most vibrant and enduring Shakespeare theatres in America.Tina Packer directed her first Shakespeare play at London Academy for Music and Dramatic Art in 1971. More than 50 years later she continues to direct and ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Shakespeare in the Theatre: Reduced Shakespeare Company

    by Dr Ronan Hatfull, Stephen Purcell, Peter Holland, Dr. Farah Karim Cooper ...
    Series series Shakespeare in the Theatre
    The first dedicated historical study of the Reduced Shakespeare Company, this book explores the troupe's four major Shakespearean works over the past four decades.The Reduced Shakespeare Company represent an American tale of how a small-scale, open-air troupe specialising in fast-paced, irreverent reductions of prominent topics have, since their formation in 1981, gradually expanded into a global ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Stage Matters

    Props, Bodies, and Space in Shakespearean Performance

    by Jim Casey, Sarah Enloe, Robert W. Jones, Catherine Loomis, Sarah Neville, Stephen Purcell, Sid Ray, Sara B. T. Thiel, Amanda Zoch ...
    Series series Shakespeare and the Stage
    The collection, edited by Annalisa Castaldo and Rhonda Knight, features essays by scholars interested in exploring how the material culture of sixteenth and early seventeenth English theatrical culture influenced the creation and presentation of drama and how understanding this culture can enrich scholars’ current interactions with these plays as well as offer insights to actors and directors. The ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Shakespeare in the Theatre: Mark Rylance at the Globe

    by Stephen Purcell ...
    Series series Shakespeare in the Theatre
    Shakespeare in the Theatre: Mark Rylance at the GlobeEach volume in the Shakespeare in the Theatre series focuses on a director or theatre company who has made a significant contribution to Shakespeare production, identifying the artistic and political/social contexts of their work. The series introduces readers to the work of significant theatre directors and companies whose Shakespeare ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Webster: The White Devil

    by Stephen Purcell ...
    Series series Shakespeare Handbooks
    The White Devil is one of the great plays of the Jacobean era. In this vibrant Handbook, Stephen Purcell offers an in-depth, performance-focused exploration of John Webster's thrilling, unsettling and darkly comic tragedy. The Handbook includes:- a scene-by-scene commentary on the play as it unfolds on stage- an overview of the play's cultural context- excerpts from historical sources- case ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Shakespeare and Audience in Practice

    by Stephen Purcell ...
    Series series Shakespeare in Practice
    What do audiences do as they watch a Shakespearean play? What makes them respond in the ways that they do? This book examines a wide range of theatrical productions to explore the practice of being a modern Shakespearean audience. It surveys some of the most influential ideas about spectatorship in contemporary performance studies, and analyses the strategies employed both in the texts themselves ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

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  • 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

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  • Shakespeare's Comedies

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Bart van Es ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    From The Two Gentlemen of Verona in the early 1590s to The Two Noble Kinsmen at the end of his career around 1614, Shakespeare wrote at least eighteen plays that can be called 'comedies': a far higher number than that for any other genre in which he wrote. So what is a Shakespearean comedy? We associate these plays with such themes as mistaken identities, happy marriages, and exuberant cross ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film

    Edited by Russell Jackson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays are increasingly popular and now figure prominently in the study of his work and its reception. This Companion is a lively collection of critical and historical essays on the films adapted from, and inspired by, Shakespeare's plays. Chapters have been revised and updated from the first edition to include the most recent films and scholarship. An ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Murder Most Foul

    Hamlet Through the Ages

    by David Bevington ...
    What is it about Hamlet that has made it such a compelling and vital work? Murder Most Foul: Hamlet Through the Ages is an account of Shakespeare's great play from its sources in Scandinavian epic lore to the way it was performed and understood in his own day, and then how the play has fared down to the present: performances on stage, television, and in film, critical evaluations, publishing ... Read more

    $34.99 USD