Shakespeare: The Two Traditions

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1999 - Performing Arts - 271 pages
The 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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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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