Shakespeare: The Two TraditionsThe two traditions -- Shakespeare on stage and Shakespeare on film -- have experienced a midair collision with postmodernism. The purpose of Shakespeare is to examine recent productions of Shakespeare on stage and film and to lay out some interpretive guidelines for responding to the scripts as re-created in these two very different formats and within the conflicted environment of shifting critical paradigms. Illustrated. |
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... director or even this or that audience and certainly not as reconfigured in the light of different Zeitgeists . Whatever that variable is , it is not some " transcendent origi- nal , uninscribed by the pressures of history " ( Bulman ...
... director or even this or that audience and certainly not as reconfigured in the light of different Zeitgeists . Whatever that variable is , it is not some " transcendent origi- nal , uninscribed by the pressures of history " ( Bulman ...
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... directors , even today , see the plays as Chekhovian workings out of , or failures to work out of , relationships . If we posit an Oedipal problem for Hamlet , it becomes impossible to avoid a " commitment to [ a ] single unitary ...
... directors , even today , see the plays as Chekhovian workings out of , or failures to work out of , relationships . If we posit an Oedipal problem for Hamlet , it becomes impossible to avoid a " commitment to [ a ] single unitary ...
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... director may choose to drop down on whatever the script may be struggling to communicate . What is Hawkes making Shakespeare into ? —a postmodernist , of course . There are great strengths in that stance , because it permits the script ...
... director may choose to drop down on whatever the script may be struggling to communicate . What is Hawkes making Shakespeare into ? —a postmodernist , of course . There are great strengths in that stance , because it permits the script ...
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... director may have in mind . Its archetype is people who don't realize they are in love , who fight against their stereotypes as " lovers , " and who permit their qualities of wit and irony to continue , rather than be surrendered ...
... director may have in mind . Its archetype is people who don't realize they are in love , who fight against their stereotypes as " lovers , " and who permit their qualities of wit and irony to continue , rather than be surrendered ...
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... directors like Debra Warner and Katie Mitchell , and by ACTER and Shenandoah Shakespeare Express , represents a powerful countervailing tendency , though not one suited to main - stage productions . That style thrives in spaces like the ...
... directors like Debra Warner and Katie Mitchell , and by ACTER and Shenandoah Shakespeare Express , represents a powerful countervailing tendency , though not one suited to main - stage productions . That style thrives in spaces like the ...
Contents
Shakespeare on Stage | 45 |
The Shakespeare Theatres Henry V and Henry VI and the Public Theaters Henry VI | 47 |
Three Tempests and One Macbeth | 77 |
Recent Hamlet Productions and Historicism | 96 |
Shakespeare Repertory 110 47 | 110 |
e 8 | 117 |
Shakespeare on Film | 154 |
Olivier Loncraine and Pacino | 155 |
Branaghs Film | 216 |
Conclusion | 225 |
Notes | 232 |
Production Credits | 244 |
Works Cited | 248 |
Index | 260 |
174 | 262 |
216 | 263 |
Stoppards Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Branaghs A Midwinters Tale | 162 |
Parkers Othello and Luhrmanns Romeo + Juliet | 174 |
Trevor Nunns Twelfth Night | 198 |
239 | 266 |
248 | 271 |
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