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Book SynopsisShakespeare in the Theatre: Mark Rylance at the Globe
Each volume in the Shakespeare in the Theatre series focuses on a director or theatre company who has made a significant contribution to Shakespeare production, identifying the artistic and political/social contexts of their work. The series introduces readers to the work of significant theatre directors and companies whose Shakespeare productions have been transformative in our understanding of his plays in performance. Each volume examines a single figure or company, considering their key productions, rehearsal approaches and their work with other artists.
Since its opening in the late 1990s, the reconstructed Shakespeare's Globe Theatre has made an indelible impression on the contemporary British theatre scene. This book explores the theatre's first decade of productions under the pioneering leadership of Sir Mark Rylance. Drawing upon an extensive range of material from the theatre's archive, interviews w
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Invaluable to scholars of performance, adaptation, contemporary productions of Shakespeare, and twentieth- to twenty-first-century commercial theatrical culture … Purcell draws extensively on Rylance’s own archive of the period, and a long concluding interview opens a fascinating window into the impressions, memories, and ideas of this most creative of contemporary Shakespeareans. * SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 *
Table of Contents
Introduction 1 Experiment and Reaction: The 1995–1998 Seasons 2 Masters of Play: Directing at the Globe 3 Shared Experiences: The Actor/Audience Relationship 4 The Politics of Performance at the Globe 5 An Interview with Mark Rylance Epilogue: Legacy and Return
