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Thomas Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday is one of the most popular
of Elizabethan plays, entertaining, racy and vivid in its
characterisation. Revealing a vital portrait of Elizabethan London
and the interaction of social classes within the city, its social
commentary is on the whole optimistic, though darker tones are
discernible. The play has the whole optimistic, though darker tones
are discernible. The play has had a lively history of performance
on both the professional and amateur stage; the roles of Simon and
Madgy Eyre in particular have proved worthy vehicles for the
talents of such performers as Sir Donald Wolfit and Dame Edith
Evans, and a notable production was directed by Orson Wells. The
editors offer a study of the text; a historical and critical
introduction, which includes a study of the play's relationship
with contemporary life and drama and of its place in Dekker's work;
a stage history' a detailed commentary and a reprint of source
materials. -- .
In a period during which a play previously staged very
traditionally was represented in a variety of original ways, Robert
Smallwood looks at what we could call the 'Seven Ages of As You
Like It' by considering just what directors, designers and actors
did differently to make their vision original. How are the
environments of the court and the Forest of Arden presented; bleak
and chilling or welcoming and celebratory? What does each actress
bring to the crucial role of Rosalind that will help show the
journey from her relationship with Celia to that with Orlando? How
are the anti-romantic Touchstone and Jaques portrayed? How
successfully is Hymen, the god of marriage, brought to the stage?
This engaging volume celebrates the rich performance history of an
always popular play. In a period during which a play previously
staged very traditionally was represented in a variety of original
ways, Robert Smallwood looks at what we could call the 'Seven Ages
of As You Like It' by considering just what directors, designers
and actors did differently to make their vision original. How are
the environments of the court and the Forest of Arden presented;
bleak and chilling or welcoming and celebratory? What does each
actress bring to the crucial role of Rosalind that will help show
the journey from her relationship with Celia to that with Orlando?
How are the anti-romantic Touchstone and Jaques portrayed? How
successfully is Hymen, the god of marriage, brought to the stage?
This engaging volume celebrates the rich performance history of an
always popular play.
This sixth volume of essays by members of the Royal Shakespeare
Company and the National Theatre is the first to focus on a single
group of Shakespeare's plays. To celebrate the arrival of the new
millennium the RSC presented productions of all eight of the
history plays of the first and second Lancastrian tetralogies. Half
of the twelve essays in this volume accordingly come from this
important and historic cycle. Of the other six essays, from later
productions, three are from the rarely performed King John, one
from the even more rarely performed Edward III and the remaining
two deal with the best-known title roles among the history plays,
in two major recent independent productions of Henry V and Richard
III. The contributors are Guy Henry, Kelly Hunter, Jo
Stone-Fewings, David Rintoul, Samuel West, David Troughton, Nancy
Carroll, Desmond Barrit, Adrian Lester, Fiona Bell, Richard
Cordery, and Henry Goodman.
This is the fifth volume of essays by actors with the Royal
Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre on their
interpretations of major Shakespearian roles. The twelve essays
discuss fourteen roles in twelve different productions between 1999
and 2002. The productions covered include three plays not featured
before in the series: The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night's
Dream and Antony and Cleopatra. The contributors are Philip Voss,
Ian Hughes, Aidan McArdle, Zoe Waites, Matilda Ziegler, Alexandra
Gilbreath, Antony Sher, David Tennant, Michael Pennington, Simon
Russell Beale, Richard McCabe, Frances de la Tour and the late
Nigel Hawthorne. The title roles in three of the major tragedies -
Hamlet, King Lear and Macbeth - are covered and there is also an
essay on Iago in Othello. A brief biographical note is provided for
each of the contributors and an introduction places the essays in
the context of the Stratford and London stages.
This is the fourth volume of essays by actors with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Twelve actors, including Jane Lapotaire, Julian Glover and Sir Derek Jacobi describe the Shakespearian roles they played in productions between 1992 and 1997. The plays covered include The Merchant of Venice, Love's Labour's Lost, The Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, The Winter's Tale, and Romeo and Juliet, among others. Emphasis among the comedies is on those notoriously difficult "clown" roles.
This is the third volume of essays by actors with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Thirteen actors describe the Shakespearean roles they played in productions between 1987 and 1991. The plays covered include Hamlet, Richard III, The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing, Measure for Measure, and important theatrical rarities such as Cymbeline, Titus Andronicus, King John, and the Henry VI plays in the Royal Shakespeare Company's highly successful adaptation retitled The Plantagenets.
This is the second volume of essays by actors with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Fourteen actors describe the Shakespearean roles they played in productions between 1982 and 1987. A brief biographical note is provided for each of the contributors and an introduction places the essays in the context of the Stratford and London stages, and of the music and design for the particular productions.
This is the fifth volume of essays by actors with the Royal
Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre on their
interpretations of major Shakespearian roles. The twelve essays
discuss fourteen roles in twelve different productions between 1999
and 2002. The productions covered include three plays not featured
before in the series: The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night's
Dream and Antony and Cleopatra. The contributors are Philip Voss,
Ian Hughes, Aidan McArdle, Zoe Waites, Matilda Ziegler, Alexandra
Gilbreath, Antony Sher, David Tennant, Michael Pennington, Simon
Russell Beale, Richard McCabe, Frances de la Tour and the late
Nigel Hawthorne. The title roles in three of the major tragedies -
Hamlet, King Lear and Macbeth - are covered and there is also an
essay on Iago in Othello. A brief biographical note is provided for
each of the contributors and an introduction places the essays in
the context of the Stratford and London stages.
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