Looking at Shakespeare
Looking at Shakespeare
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Dennis Kennedy's comprehensive account of the main scenographic movements of the century investigates how visual elements affect Shakespeare on the stage. This second edition ranges through productions in Britain, Europe, Japan and North America and includes a new chapter on Shakespeare performance in the 1990s. There are more than twenty new illustrations, some of them in color, and previous references have been updated.
- Second edition of the highly successful book by Kennedy
- International coverage, with a new chapter on Shakespeare performance in the 1990s bringing the story up to date
- Well illustrated, with 23 new illustrations bringing the total to 172 half-tones and 23 colour plates
Reviews & endorsements
"Dennis Kennedy's Looking at Shakespeare is one of the most important assessments of Shakespearean production in the twentieth century we have to date, and will long hold that distinction." Comparative Drama, Mary Judith Dunbar, Santa Clara University, California
Product details
February 2002Paperback
9780521785488
434 pages
246 × 190 × 32 mm
1.414kg
172 b/w illus. 23 colour illus. 1 table
Unavailable - out of print September 2006
Table of Contents
- 1. Shakespeare and the visual
- 2. Victorian pictures
- 3. The scenographic revolution
- 4. Styles of politics
- 5. The stuffed stag and the new look
- 6. Reinventing the stage
- 7. The Liberation of Europe
- 8. New Spaces, new audiences
- 9. Imaging Shakespeare
- 10. Century's close.
