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Looking at Shakespeare : a visual history of twentieth-century performance
- Title
- Looking at Shakespeare : a visual history of twentieth-century performance / Dennis Kennedy.
- Author
- Kennedy, Dennis, 1940-
- Publication
- Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
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Details
- Description
- xxv, 408 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm
- Summary
- Publisher Description (unedited publisher data) Most studies of the performance of Shakespeare's work concentrate on how the text has been played and what meanings have been conveyed through acting and interpretive directing. Dennis Kennedy demonstrates that much of audience response is determined by the visual representation, which is normally more immediate and direct than the aural conveyance of a text. Ranging widely over productions in Britain, Europe, Japan and North America, Kennedy gives a thorough account of the main scenographic movements of the century, investigating how the visual relates to Shakespeare on the stage. The second edition of this acclaimed history includes a new chapter on Shakespeare performance in the 1990s, bringing the story up to date by drawing on examples from a wide international field. There are more than twenty new illustrations, some of them in colour (bringing the total number of illustrations to almost 200), and previous references have been updated. Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Stage history 1950- Pictorial works, Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Stage history 1800-1950 Pictorial works, Theaters Stage-setting and scenery History 20th century Pictorial works, Theater History 20th century Pictorial works.
- Subjects
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
- Theater
- Theaters > Stage-setting and scenery
- Since 1800
- Shakespeare, William
- Shakespeare, William 1564-1616
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Stage history > 1800-1950 > Pictorial works
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Stage history > 1950- > Pictorial works
- Bildband
- Pictorial works
- History
- Bühnenbild
- Aufführung
- Drama
- Theater > History > 20th century > Pictorial works
- Theaters > Stage-setting and scenery > History > 20th century > Pictorial works
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Pictorial works.
- Bildband.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 366-393) and index.
- Contents
- Shakespeare and the visual. Visual criticism ; Scenography and performance ; Visual records of performance -- Victorian pictures. Pictorialism ; Elizabethanism -- The scenographic revolution. Craig and the new stagecraft ; Reinhardt and his designers ; Post-impressionism: Granville Barker and Wilkinson -- Styles of politics. Expressionism: Jessner and Pirchan ; Constructivism and the unit set ; Synthesis in central Europe ; Birmingham and Cambridge -- The stuffed stag and the new look. Bridges-Adams and Komisarjevsky ; Motley ; R.E. Jones and Orson Welles -- Reinventing the stage. Guthrie and Moiseiwitsch ; The other Stratford ; Peter Brook and the image ; John Bury and Peter Hall ; Brook's dream, Jacobs' box -- The liberation of Europe. Socialist reconciliation and discord ; The director's lens ; Brechtian scenography in Berlin ; Brechtians abroad ; Josef Svoboda -- New spaces, new audiences ; American festivities ; Ritual at the RSC ; Chamber Shakespeare ; Well, this is the forest of Arden -- Imaging Shakespeare. Trousers down : Zadek and travesty ; Intercultural Shakespeare ; Neo-pictorialism ; The magic of vision -- Century's close. Ninagawa ; Empires and colonies ; Buying British ; Shakespeare at the end of time.
- ISBN
- 0521780578
- 9780521780575
- 0521785480
- 9780521785488
- LCCN
- 2001025905
- OCLC
- ocm46671105
- 46671105
- SCSB-14647600
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library