Of late many classic titles - including the Bible - have been
turned into manga, in a 21st-century version of the venerable
Classics Illustrated comics. This take on the Bard boils his play
down to approximately 20 words per page, drastically abridging the
text, though keeping intact the original language and meter. A
fully colored dramatis personae reduces the characters to sound
bites and shines in comparison to the flat, gray-toned images that
murkily tell the story itself. As drawn by Brown, the characters
are decidedly more Western-looking in their styling than is typical
to most manga, and the adaptor's choice of setting is an
anachronistic mishmash of quasi-antique and modern, a choice that
will leave sophisticated readers knowledgeable with the text
slightly puzzled. The Tempest (ISBN: 978-0-8109-9476-8), drawn by
Paul Duffield, follows an identical template. These attempts to
convert Shakespeare into visual language fall flat, although the
slick manga styling alone may attract some new readers to these
works. (plot summary, author's biography) (Graphic fiction. 13
& up) (Kirkus Reviews)
This is a detailed account of the theatrical fortunes of A
Midsummer Night's Dream on the British stage, from the 1590s to the
1990s. The substantial, illustrated introduction traces the rise of
the play from theatrical neglect in the eighteenth century through
the spectacular productions of the nineteenth century to its
current high status. The authoritative New Cambridge Shakespeare
text of the play is accompanied by notes on actors'
interpretations, settings and textual alterations. The author
considers the cultural changes which have affected the play's
popularity as well as the conceptions of individual directors from
David Garrick and George Colman, via Madame Vestris and Beerbohm
Tree, Granville Barker and W. Bridges Adams to Peter Brook, Robert
Lepage and Adrian Noble. The book shows theatre history as cultural
history. It will be invaluable to students of Shakespeare in
performance at graduate level, working in departments of English or
drama/theatre and to those intrigued by the changing reputation of
Shakespeare.
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