Shakespeare on the stage : an illustrated history of Shakespearian performance /
Speaight, Robert, 1904-1976.
Shakespeare on the stage : an illustrated history of Shakespearian performance / Robert Speaight. - Boston : Little, Brown, 1973. - 304 pages : illustration (part col.) ; 26 cm.
Bibliography: pages (295-296).
Preface --The Wooden O --The eminent tragedians --Lyceum nights --In America --France and Italy --Germany and Russia --
The challengers --Actors and institutions --On and off Broadway --The animateurs --European round-up --
The war years --The open stage --Foreigners, and a five-year plan --Royal Shakespeare.
This book begins at the Globe Theatre, describing performances there and at the Blackfriars as we know or conjecture them to have been from historical documents. Eighteenth-century tastes were different, and the author shows how Shakespeare's plays were adapted and often considerably altered over the following centuries. Speaight recreates famous productions from the United States, France, Italy, Germany, Russia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Poland.
73179661
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Stage history.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
PR 3091 / S741s 1973
822.3/3
Shakespeare on the stage : an illustrated history of Shakespearian performance / Robert Speaight. - Boston : Little, Brown, 1973. - 304 pages : illustration (part col.) ; 26 cm.
Bibliography: pages (295-296).
Preface --The Wooden O --The eminent tragedians --Lyceum nights --In America --France and Italy --Germany and Russia --
The challengers --Actors and institutions --On and off Broadway --The animateurs --European round-up --
The war years --The open stage --Foreigners, and a five-year plan --Royal Shakespeare.
This book begins at the Globe Theatre, describing performances there and at the Blackfriars as we know or conjecture them to have been from historical documents. Eighteenth-century tastes were different, and the author shows how Shakespeare's plays were adapted and often considerably altered over the following centuries. Speaight recreates famous productions from the United States, France, Italy, Germany, Russia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Poland.
73179661
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Stage history.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
PR 3091 / S741s 1973
822.3/3