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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... occurring , and to ignore the ways in which Shakespeare functions in different media . With the exception of the work of Coleman , Michael Tolaydo , and Rex Gibson , the approach represents the dumbing down unfortunately typical of the ...
... occurring , and to ignore the ways in which Shakespeare functions in different media . With the exception of the work of Coleman , Michael Tolaydo , and Rex Gibson , the approach represents the dumbing down unfortunately typical of the ...
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... occur within the cramped world of a specific time and place . As Irving Wardle says of a recent produc- tion , " The idea of staging Romeo and Juliet as a feud between Catho- lic and Protestant Irish blinds you to the fact that nothing ...
... occur within the cramped world of a specific time and place . As Irving Wardle says of a recent produc- tion , " The idea of staging Romeo and Juliet as a feud between Catho- lic and Protestant Irish blinds you to the fact that nothing ...
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... occur in that space— like Ron Daniels's Hamlet with Mark Rylance in 1989 , or Bill Alex- ander's Taming of the Shrew in 1992 , framed so that the Players in the inner play , Kate and Petruchio , et al . , were able to revenge them ...
... occur in that space— like Ron Daniels's Hamlet with Mark Rylance in 1989 , or Bill Alex- ander's Taming of the Shrew in 1992 , framed so that the Players in the inner play , Kate and Petruchio , et al . , were able to revenge them ...
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... occur when we put those words at the service of another medium . We judge the result not against some platonic ideal or against some irrecoverable original version , an ur - performance , but within the context of these actors , this ...
... occur when we put those words at the service of another medium . We judge the result not against some platonic ideal or against some irrecoverable original version , an ur - performance , but within the context of these actors , this ...
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... occur , but critics will be more attentive to production and what it should be doing if they view the perfor- mance as " disturbance , " rather than as merely confirmation or refuta- tion ( therefore to be refuted ) of previously held ...
... occur , but critics will be more attentive to production and what it should be doing if they view the perfor- mance as " disturbance , " rather than as merely confirmation or refuta- tion ( therefore to be refuted ) of previously held ...
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...
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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!
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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.