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A complete, practical manual of modern theatrical practice, with
coverage of every aspect of the subject, from choosing a play to
backstage and front-of-house management. A book that can guide even
the most inexperienced amateur to attain professional standards.
‘The course of true love never did run smooth’ – so says
Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and for more than 2000
years the problems faced by young men and women fighting to find
and keep an appropriate sexual partner have been a theatrical
staple. This book explores the shapes that Romantic Comedy has
assumed from Greek New Comedy via Shakespeare to the present.
Changing social values have helped to redefine the genre’s
traditional hetero-normativity, while the recent trend towards more
fluid casting has opened up many romantic comedies to radical
reinterpretations. Organized chronologically to allow readers to
trace the development of the form against changing societal norms,
the book features a range of case studies of key works from the
British tradition, including A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth
Night, Susanna Centlivre’s A Bold Stroke for a Wife, Oliver
Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer, Stanley Houghton’s Hindle
Wakes, Noël Coward’s Private Lives, Shelagh Delaney’s A Taste
of Honey, Ayub Khan-Din’s East is East and David Eldridge’s
Beginning.
A new and definitive guide to the theatre of the ancient world The
Guide to Greek Theatre and Drama is a meticulously researched and
accessible survey into the place and purpose of theatre in Ancient
Greece. It provides a comprehensive author-by-author examination of
the surviving plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides,
Aristophanes, and Menander, as well as giving an insight into how
and where the plays were performed, who acted them out, and who
watched them. It includes a fascinating discussion of the function
of the essential characteristics of Greek drama, including verse,
rhetoric, music, comedy, and chorus. Above all it offers a
fascinating viewpoint onto the everyday values of the ancient
Greeks; values with a continuing influence over the theatre of the
present day.
'The course of true love never did run smooth' - so says Lysander
in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and for more than 2000 years the
problems faced by young men and women fighting to find and keep an
appropriate sexual partner have been a theatrical staple. This book
explores the shapes that Romantic Comedy has assumed from Greek New
Comedy via Shakespeare to the present. Changing social values have
helped to redefine the genre's traditional hetero-normativity,
while the recent trend towards more fluid casting has opened up
many romantic comedies to radical reinterpretations. Organized
chronologically to allow readers to trace the development of the
form against changing societal norms, the book features a range of
case studies of key works from the British tradition, including A
Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, Susanna Centlivre's A Bold
Stroke for a Wife, Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer,
Stanley Houghton's Hindle Wakes, Noel Coward's Private Lives,
Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey, Ayub Khan-Din's East is East
and David Eldridge's Beginning.
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.
This volume describes the theatrical fortunes of A Midsummer Night's Dream on the British stage, from the 1590s to the 1990s. A substantial 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 Cambridge text of the play is accompanied by detailed notes on actors' interpretations, settings, textual alterations, and the conceptions of individual directors from David Garrick to Robert Lepage. It will be invaluable to students of Shakespeare in performance.
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