Rescripting Shakespeare

The Text, the Director, and Modern Productions

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Hardcover | 20 June 2002

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Building on almost 300 productions from the last 25 years, this 2002 book focuses on the playtexts used when directors stage Shakespeare's plays: the words spoken, the scenes omitted or transposed, and the many other adjustments that must be made. Directors rescript to streamline the playscript and save running time, to eliminate obscurity, conserve on personnel, and occasionally cancel out passages that might not fit their 'concept'. They rewright when they make more extensive changes, moving closer to the role of playwrights, as when the three parts of Henry VI are compressed into two plays. Alan Dessen analyzes what such choices might exclude or preclude, and explains the exigencies faced by actors and directors in placing before today's audiences words targeted at players, playgoers, and playhouses that no longer exist. The results are of interest and importance as much to theatrical professionals as to theatre historians and students.

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'Massively detailed in its range of observation and points of detail, this book makes an important contribution to what is perhaps the most fascinating, if emergent, field in contemporary Shakespeare scholarship, namely, adaptation studies.' Journal of Theatre Research International 'Alan C. Dessen's meticulous and accurate methods in analysing the concreteness of Shakespearean stagecraft need no further praise or demonstration. His latest opus offers a successful fusion of academic analytic capacities and an understanding of directors' aspirations and obligations.' Cahiers Elisabethains 'Rescripting Shakespeare is an informative guide for theatregoers ...'. The Journal of the English Association

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'Let it be hid': price tags, trade-offs, and economies
Rescripting Shakespeare's contemporaries
Adjustments and improvements
Inserting an intermission-interval
What's in an ending? Rescripting final scenes
Rescripting stage directions and actions
Compressing Henry VI
The tamings of the shrews: rescripting the First Folio
The editor as rescripter
Conclusion: What's not here
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Rescripting Shakespeare

The Text, the Director, and Modern Productions

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