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- English
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The Routledge Companion to Directors' Shakespeare
About this book
The Routledge Companion to Directors' Shakespeare is a major collaborative book about plays in performance. Thirty authoritative accounts describe in illuminating detail how some of theatre's most talented directors have brought Shakespeare's texts to the stage. Each chapter has a revealing story to tell as it explores a new and revitalising approach to the most familiar works in the English language.
A must-have work of reference for students of both Shakespeare and theatre, this book presents some of the most acclaimed productions of the last hundred years in a variety of cultural and political contexts. Each entry describes a director's own theatrical vision, and methods of rehearsal and production. These studies chart the extraordinary feats of interpretation and innovation that have given Shakespeare's plays enduring life in the theatre.
Notable entries include: Ingmar Bergman * Peter Brook * Declan Donnellan * Tyrone Guthrie * Peter Hall * Fritz Kortner * Robert Lepage * Joan Littlewood * Ninagawa Yukio * Joseph Papp * Roger Planchon * Max Reinhardt * Giorgio Strehler * Deborah Warner * Orson Welles * Franco Zeffirelli
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Ingmar Bergman
- 2 Peter Brook
- 3 Glen Byam Shaw
- 4 Deguchi Norio
- 5 Declan Donnellan
- 6 Peter Gill
- 7 Harley Granville Barker
- 8 Tyrone Guthrie
- 9 Peter Hall
- 10 Terry Hands
- 11 Henry Irving
- 12 Fritz Kortner
- 13 Michael Langham
- 14 Robert Lepage
- 15 Joan Littlewood
- 16 Ninagawa Yukio
- 17 Trevor Nunn
- 18 Joseph Papp
- 19 B. Iden Payne
- 20 Roger Planchon
- 21 William Poel
- 22 Max Reinhardt
- 23 Barrie Rutter
- 24 Mark Rylance
- 25 Peter Stein
- 26 Giorgio Strehler
- 27 Julie Taymor
- 28 Deborah Warner
- 29 Orson Welles
- 30 Peter Zadek
- 31 Franco Zeffirelli
- Index of directors
- Index of plays
- General index