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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... merely topical , but one cannot hope for stasis , for the constant replaying of an histori- cal moment when one's own conception of Shakespeare was appar- ently alive and well on stage . The historicists chart the movement accurately ...
... merely topical , but one cannot hope for stasis , for the constant replaying of an histori- cal moment when one's own conception of Shakespeare was appar- ently alive and well on stage . The historicists chart the movement accurately ...
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... merely serve to reinforce their superficiality within the oxymoron of " married life " . For all of the good things in Kenneth Branagh's film version , he permits Beatrice , and particularly Benedict , to become standardized persons ...
... merely serve to reinforce their superficiality within the oxymoron of " married life " . For all of the good things in Kenneth Branagh's film version , he permits Beatrice , and particularly Benedict , to become standardized persons ...
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... merely along the level of cultural expectation . Jung inherits the term from Augustine , but Freud's Oedipal thesis is also an archetype . Hamlet can be done without it , true , since the play can be said to contact more than one ...
... merely along the level of cultural expectation . Jung inherits the term from Augustine , but Freud's Oedipal thesis is also an archetype . Hamlet can be done without it , true , since the play can be said to contact more than one ...
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... mere burgundy to sacred blood . Today's productions show that Shakespeare's plays still have this abil- ity to mediate and transform . All of this was done during daylight on Bankside in the late spring and summer of years in which the ...
... mere burgundy to sacred blood . Today's productions show that Shakespeare's plays still have this abil- ity to mediate and transform . All of this was done during daylight on Bankside in the late spring and summer of years in which the ...
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... , " rather than as merely confirmation or refuta- tion ( therefore to be refuted ) of previously held beliefs , about the play or about themselves . SHAKESPEARE AND HIS LANGUAGE In a recent essay , Dennis 24 INTRODUCTION.
... , " rather than as merely confirmation or refuta- tion ( therefore to be refuted ) of previously held beliefs , about the play or about themselves . SHAKESPEARE AND HIS LANGUAGE In a recent essay , Dennis 24 INTRODUCTION.
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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Page 117 - I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play, Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
Page 21 - Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts ; Into a thousand parts divide one man, And make imaginary puissance ; Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i...
Page 19 - No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never!
Page 222 - Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? DoCT. Do you mark that? LADY M. The thane of Fife had a wife; where is she now? What, will these hands ne'er be clean? No more o' that, my lord, no more o' that: you mar all with this starting.
Page 166 - Audiences know what to expect and that is all they are prepared to believe in
Page 99 - What these elements are in themselves it skilleth not; it is enough, that to me which take them they are the body and blood of Christ; his promise in witness hereof sufficeth; his word he knoweth which way to accomplish; why should any cogitation possess the mind of a faithful communicant but this ? O my God, thou art true; O my soul, thou art happy!
Page 100 - Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, Unhousel'd, disappointed, unanel'd, No reckoning made, but sent to my account With all my imperfections on my head: O, horrible!
Page 37 - I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system and that in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks.