Performing Shakespeare's Tragedies Today
The Actor's Perspective
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- Editor: Michael Dobson, Birkbeck College, University of London
- Date Published: November 2006
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521671224
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What does it mean to perform Shakespeare's Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedies in the modern theatre? This book brings together the reflections of a number of major classical actors on how these works can most powerfully be realized for today's audiences. Concentrating on the 'great' tragedies - Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth and King Lear - the actors offer unique insights into some of the most demanding and rewarding roles in world drama, by showing what it is like to play them on stage. Ten perceptive and articulate performers reflect on their experiences of ten major roles: the Ghost, Gertrude and Hamlet; Iago, Emilia and Othello; Lady Macbeth and Macbeth; Lear's Fool, and King Lear. Together, these essays provide a peculiarly intimate set of trade secrets about what techniques, ideas and memories actors may use when approaching tragic roles in Shakespeare's most challenging plays.
Read more- Brings together accounts by ten major classical actors, including Sir Antony Sher, Samuel West and Imogen Stubbs
- Offers the reader a fascinating insight into the trade secrets, techniques and ideas actors employ when playing these Shakespearean roles
- Includes ten production photographs of each contributor in their particular role
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'All of the contributors are talented and well-informed raconteurs.' Journal of NTQ
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- Date Published: November 2006
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521671224
- length: 154 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 8 mm
- weight: 0.22kg
- contains: 10 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction Michael Dobson
Hamlet: The Ghost Greg Hicks
Gertrude Imogen Stubbs
Hamlet Samuel West
Othello: Iago Sir Antony Sher
Emilia Amanda Harris
Othello Nonso Anozie
Macbeth: Lady Macbeth Sian Thomas
Macbeth Simon Russell Beale
King Lear: Lear's Fool John Normington
King Lear David Warner.
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