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Shakespeare in the theatre : Peter Hall
\"Peter Hall is one of the most significant and influential directors of Shakespeare's work of modern times. Through both his own work and the management of two national theatre companies, the National Theatre and the RSC, Hall has promoted Shakespeare as a writer who can comment incisively on the modern world. His best productions exemplified this approach: Coriolanus (1959), The Wars of the Roses (1963) and Hamlet (1965) established his reputation as a director able to bring Shakespeare to the heart of contemporary politics. However, Hall's career has been very varied, and sometimes his critical failures are as interesting as his successes. The book explores Hall's work as a deliberate articulation of Shakespeare and national culture in the post-war years. The main focus is on his Shakespeare work, but critical attention is also given to non-Shakespearean productions, notably his 1955 Waiting for Godot (and his relationship with Samuel Beckett in general) and his 2000 Tantalus (and his work with John Barton), placing Hall's work in its cultural and creative context. Setting Hall's work against the post-war development of national culture, the book explores how his work with other writers and artists (including Beckett, Pinter and Barton) informed his approach to directing as well as his rehearsal methods and his approach to Shakespeare's text\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Kent’s Best Man: Radical Chorographic Consciousness and the Identity Politics of Local History in Shakespeare’s 2 Henry VI
In this article, the character of Jack Cade in Shakespeare’s 2 Henry VI is reconsidered through an exploration of the local history and traditions of Kent. The article shows that Shakespeare, through Cade and his followers, created a sense of local historical consciousness that directly challenges the structures of chronicle history and manifests itself in various acts of self-affirmation. In particular, Shakespeare departed from his sources by giving Cade a Kentish identity. Furthermore, the article offers a challenge to the modern critical consensus that Shakespeare made Cade more violent than he was in the play’s chronicle sources.
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Measure for measure
Measure for Measure generates much debate and is strikingly modern in its treatment of justice, the limits of authority, surveillance, sexual politics and gender identity. This introductory guide to the play offers a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commentary, contextual documents, a brief history of the text and first performance, studies of outstanding and influential performances, a survey of film and TV adaptation, a wide sampling of critical opinion and annotated further reading. --From publisher's description.
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Shakespeare, Henry VI and the Festival of Britain
This chapter contains sections titled:
Fire and Slaughter
The Experiment
The Lion and the Unicorn
Thou Hast Hit It!
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Shakespeare and the making of theatre
A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of literature. Leading performance critics dismantle Shakespeare's texts, identifying theatrical cues in ways which develop understanding of the underlying theatricality of Shakespeare's plays and stimulate further performances.
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Poisoned Sites: \Othello\ in Manchester
This article explores the relationship between Braham Murray's 2002 production of Othello at the Royal Exchange in Manchester and civic spectacles associated with the XVIIth Commonwealth Games held in the city that summer. I explore how Othello was both a part of Manchester's post-terrorist rebirth and a dissonant voice in the city's promotion of itself as a successful and harmonious civic entity. Murray's production called into question the nature of theatrical spectacle and remembered the terrorist bomb which had destroyed the Royal Exchange in 1996. The article also looks forward to the 2012 London Olympic Games and the World Shakespeare Festival.
Journal Article
Let them join you in the lab
Why are undergraduates kept at arm's length from the world of university research? asks Stuart Hampton-Reeves
Journal Article
Doubt thou the star?
Proponents of alternative candidates for authorship disregard conventional methods of enquiry and debate by adopting an extremely sceptical position in relation to the many documents and contemporary references that attribute the plays to Shakespeare and then concocting elaborate and unsubstantiated fantasies about who might have written them.
Trade Publication Article