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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... performances that can be read effectively by students who have put on their own productions for themselves . The material conditions of the film performance , however , demand as much attention as does the script performed . Films tend ...
... performances that can be read effectively by students who have put on their own productions for themselves . The material conditions of the film performance , however , demand as much attention as does the script performed . Films tend ...
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... performance . That archetype , or energy system , will not be the same as it is con- tacted by the imagination of this or that director or even this or that audience and certainly not as reconfigured in the light of different Zeitgeists ...
... performance . That archetype , or energy system , will not be the same as it is con- tacted by the imagination of this or that director or even this or that audience and certainly not as reconfigured in the light of different Zeitgeists ...
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... performance . No performance delivers " the truth , " but it must deliver " a truth . " If the truth is that all love affairs are doomed , sooner or later , the " sooner " version of Romeo and Juliet is certainly susceptible to a ...
... performance . No performance delivers " the truth , " but it must deliver " a truth . " If the truth is that all love affairs are doomed , sooner or later , the " sooner " version of Romeo and Juliet is certainly susceptible to a ...
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... often held in check by the need for " reality " to be replicatable experience . The theater is , among other things , an experience that cannot be repeated . Even the same person going to the same performance a INTRODUCTION 19.
... often held in check by the need for " reality " to be replicatable experience . The theater is , among other things , an experience that cannot be repeated . Even the same person going to the same performance a INTRODUCTION 19.
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... performance a day after he or she has attended that production is different , indeed , the experi- ence of the production itself is an element of that difference . A re- sponse to the mad old man of New York who encountered the mad old ...
... performance a day after he or she has attended that production is different , indeed , the experi- ence of the production itself is an element of that difference . A re- sponse to the mad old man of New York who encountered the mad old ...
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.
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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.