Shakespeare and his contemporaries in performance. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Edward J. Esche.
• Other Names: Esche, Edward J, 1953-
• Contents: Editor's preface / Edward J. Esche -- Introduction : Shakespeare and cultural tourism / Dennis Kennedy -- Part I. Shakespeare on film -- The recent films / H.R. Coursen -- (En)gendering desire in performance : King Lear, Akira Kurosawa's Ran, Tadashi Suzuki's The tale of Lear / Yoko Takakuwa -- Part II. Nineteenth- and twentieth-century contexts -- Touring in Asia : The Miln Company's Shakespearean productions in Japan / Kaori Kobayashi -- Interculturalism or indigenization : Modes of exchange, Shakespeare East and West / Poonam Trivedi -- Berlin-Zürich-Düsseldorf : Aspects of German theatre during the Nazi period and after / Wilhelm Hortmann -- Gentlemen you are welcome to Elsinore : Hamlet in performance at Kronborg Castle, Elsinore / Niels B. Hansen -- Culture clustering, gender crossing : Hamlet meets globalization in Robert Lepage's Elsinore / Nigel Wheale -- 'The homestead of history' : Shakespearean medievalism on the mid-Victorian stage / Richard W. Schoch -- Part III. Renaissance contexts -- Falstaff's page as early modern youth at risk / Mark H. Lawhorn -- Fashion, nation and theatre in late sixteenth-century London / Janette Dillon -- The Italian job : the poetics of graced performance in the Commedia dell'arte and in Jonson's Humour plays / Rocco Coronato -- The true physiognomy of a man : Richard Tarlton and his legend / Peter Thomson -- ''Tis a pageant / To keep us in false gaze' : Othello, virtual history and the Jacobean audience's Turkish expectations / Mark Hutchings -- Part IV. From text to performance -- Don Pedro, Don John and Don ... who? : noting a stranger in Much adoodle-do / Pamela Mason -- 'The silent griefs which cut the heart strings' : John Ford's The broken heart in performance / Kristin Crouch -- Cunning with pistols : observations on Gale Edwards's 1996-7 RSC production of John Webster's The white devil / Nick Tippler -- The nineteenth-century productions of A Yorkshire tragedy (1608) / Barry Gaines -- The magnetick lady : is the unperformed performable? / Peter Happé -- Part V. Female roles -- 'A woman's generall : what should we feare?' : Queen Margaret thatcherized in recent productions of 3 Henry VI / Randall Martin -- The disappearing queen : looking for Isabel in Henry V / Diana E. Henderson.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (384 pages)
• Subjects: 792.9/5/094209031; English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism -- Congresses; Théâtre -- Angleterre -- Histoire -- 16e siècle; Théâtre anglais -- 16e siècle; Toneelvoorstellingen; Films; Drama; Kongress; Drama; Kongress -- Cambridge -- 1997; Stage history -- Congresses; Contemporaries -- Congresses; Dramatic production -- Congresses; Dramatic production -- History and criticism; Mise en scène; Histoire scénique
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351900829
• Related ISBNs: 135190082X
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.