Shakespeare : Script, Stage, Screen

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Pub. Date: 2006-01-01
Publisher(s): Longman
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Summary

Shakespeare: Script, Stage, Screen is the only Shakespeare textbook to combine an anthology of Shakespeare's plays with histories of their stage productions and analyses of the films. This textbook approaches Shakespeare's plays through the lens of interpretation, combining film theory, literary theory, and close readings of the texts to provide students with a scholarly yet accessible way to approach 14 of Shakespeare's most-often produced plays. Descriptions of key stage, film, and video interpretations, along with scrupulously edited and annotated play scripts, reinforce the belief that each stagingwhether in the theater, on film, or for televisionis an interpretation of the play, its point of view conditioned by the times, the medium, and the artist's vision. This innovative approach empowers students to develop their own critical interpretations and is especially well suited to today's students who respond readily to visual media.

Table of Contents

Preface v
I INTRODUCTION TO SHAKESPEARE AND HIS INTERPRETERS
Prologue: Discovering Shakespeare, The World's Playwright
1(72)
Shakespeare's Life
7(5)
The Early Years
7(1)
The ``Lost'' Years
8(1)
London
8(2)
Return to Stratford
10(2)
Shakespeare: Man of the Theater
12(12)
Shakespeare: Actor, Poet, Playwright
12(1)
Shakespeare and Elizabethan Thought
13(5)
Shakespeare's Theaters
18(1)
Public vs. Private Playhouses
18(1)
The Globe Theater
19(2)
The Theater
21(1)
The Second Blackfriars Theater
21(1)
Shakespeare's Actors
21(1)
The Lord Chamberlain's-King's Men
22(2)
Shakespeare: The Writer
24(10)
When and Why Playwriting?
24(1)
The Sonnets
25(1)
The Printed Sequence
25(1)
In Romeo and Juliet
26(2)
Varieties of Verse and Prose
28(3)
Shakespeare and Modern English
31(3)
Shakespeare and His Interpreters
34(14)
The Spectrum of Interpretive Possibilities
34(1)
Elizabethan and Jacobean Interpretations
34(2)
Restoration Interpretations: Shakespeare ``Made Fit''; the Rise of the Actor-Manager
36(2)
The Eighteenth Century: Neoclassical Rules and Tastes
38(1)
The Nineteenth Century: Character Criticism and Spectacle
39(1)
The Early Twentieth Century: ``Presentational'' Staging; the Emergence of the Director
40(2)
The Mid Twentieth Century: Historicism, New Criticism, and Mythological Criticism
42(1)
Post World War II: Marxism and Existentialism---Jan Kott, Bertolt Brecht, and Orson Welles
43(1)
Contemporary Criticism and Interpretation: Deconstruction, New Historicism, and Feminism
43(3)
Adaptations, Spin-offs, and Parodies
46(1)
Adaptations
46(1)
Spin-offs
46(1)
Satires and Parodies
47(1)
Shakespeare: From Page to Stage, Screenplay to Screen
48(25)
The Verbal and the Visual
48(1)
Stage Artists at Work
49(1)
The Actors
49(1)
Close-Up: Silent Shakespeare
50(3)
The Director
53(4)
The Designers
57(2)
Film Artists at Work
59(1)
The Screenwriter
60(1)
The Actors
61(1)
The Film Director
62(1)
The Cinematographer
63(1)
The Designers
64(1)
The Film Editor
65(1)
Close-Up: Peter Brook
66(2)
A Word About Genres
68(5)
II THE PLAYS
Shakespeare and Comedy
73(250)
The Taming of the Shrew
77(52)
Close-Up: Franco Zeffirelli
124(5)
A Midsummer Night's Dream
129(43)
Close-Up: Madame Vestris
169(3)
The Merchant of Venice
172(49)
Much Ado About Nothing
221(56)
Close-Up: Kenneth Branagh
267(10)
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
277(46)
Shakespeare and the English History Play
323(174)
Richard III
326(64)
King Henry IV, Part One
390(53)
King Henry V
443(54)
Shakespeare and Tragedy
497(320)
Romeo and Juliet
500(64)
Close-Up: Baz Luhrmann
560(4)
Hamlet
564(75)
Close-Up: Laurence Olivier
634(5)
Othello
639(63)
Close-Up: Orson Welles
698(4)
King Lear
702(65)
Macbeth
767(50)
Close-Up: Akira Kurosawa
814(3)
Shakespeare and Romance
817(86)
The Tempest
826(39)
Close-Up: John Gielgud
862(3)
Appendices
A Bibliography
865(27)
B Videography
892(6)
C Timelines and Family Trees of England's Royal Families: 1399--1625
898(3)
D Glossary of Terms: Film and Criticism
901(2)
Index 903

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