Shakespeare on the stage : an illustrated history of Shakespearian performance / Robert Speaight.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston : Little, Brown, 1973.Description: 304 pages : illustration (part col.) ; 26 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 822.3/3
LOC classification:
  • PR 3091 S741s 1973
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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the Globe Theatre, describing performances there and at the Blackfriars as we know or conjecture them to have been from historical documents.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.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) PR 3091 S741s 1973 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000122438

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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the Globe Theatre, describing performances there and at the Blackfriars as we know or conjecture them to have been from historical documents.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.

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