Shakespeare observed : studies in performance on stage and screen /

In this lively study of both modern film and stage productions of Shakespeare, Samuel Crowl provides fascinating insights into the ways in which these productions have been influenced by one another as well as by contemporary developments in critical approaches to Shakespeare's plays. Crowl...

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Main Author: Crowl, Samuel
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Athens : Ohio University Press, ©1992.
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Table of Contents:
  • The art of observation
  • Chain reaction : Polanski's Macbeth and its legacy
  • The long good-bye : Welles and Falstaff
  • One murderous image : Wells's Othello
  • Babes in the woods : Shakespearean comedy on film
  • Militant classicist : Peter Hall and Shakespeare
  • Watching the torches burn bright : the diary of a Royal Shakespeare Company observer
  • Free style : Adrian Noble's King Lear and As you like it
  • Minding giddy business : Michael Bogdanov's The Wars of the Roses
  • Fathers and sons : Kenneth Branagh's Henry V.