Description
Book SynopsisAn excellent study of the performance of one of Shakespeare's perceived 'problem plays', complete with interview material with actors and directors, an awareness of global productions and an insight to theatrical art. -- .
Table of ContentsList of illustrations
Series editors’ preface
Acknowledgements
Note on the text
Introduction: ‘This wide gap of time’: theatrical issues and performance history
1. Granville Barker’s production at the Savoy Theatre, 1912
2. Postwar renewal: Peter Brook’s production at the Phoenix Theatre, 1951
3. Trevor Nunn’s production with the Royal Shakespeare Company, 1969-71
4. Audrey Stanley’s production with the Oregon Shakespearean Festival, 1975
5. Jane Howell’s television production for the British Broadcasting Corporation, 1980
6. Peter Hall’s production at the National Theatre, 1988
7. Reinvention and cultural translation: Ingmar Bergman’s production with the Royal Dramatic Theatre of Sweden, 1994-95
8. Declan Donnellan’s production with the Maly Drama Theatre, St. Petersburg, 1997
9. ‘A world ransomed, or one destroyed’: English Tales at the Millennium by Carol Chillington Rutter
Notes
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
