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What is it that makes Shakespeare's most famous plays so vividly
alive, down all the centuries since they were first produced? Shakespeare
in Production aims to help readers, students, actors and directors
to understand the changing appeal of Hamlet to successive generations,
and to explore the metamorphoses of The Taming of the Shrew from
the patriarchal Renaissance to the post-modern, post-feminist present.
The editions offer the full Cambridge text of each play, illuminated
by notes that provide description and illustration of productions
throughout history, in Britain and beyond. By the use of promptbooks,
actor's memories, reviews and photographs, each scene is set
in its production history; its most memorable performances, designs
and new interpretations are brought to life in fascinating detail.
The plays are not static and unchanging: every generation has its
own texts, and its own understanding of them. Performance re-writes
and re-interprets the play from page to stage. The series allows
modern readers to access not one Shakespeare, fixed for all time
- but many plays by many generations of players and directors.
Jacky Bratton and Julie Hankey
General Editors
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