Shakespeare in Performance : Castings and Metamorphoses - Ralph Berry

Shakespeare in Performance

Castings and Metamorphoses

By: Ralph Berry

eText | 13 August 2014 | Edition Number 1

At a Glance

eText


$78.09

or 4 interest-free payments of $19.52 with

 or 

Instant online reading in your Booktopia eTextbook Library *

Why choose an eTextbook?

Instant Access *

Purchase and read your book immediately

Read Aloud

Listen and follow along as Bookshelf reads to you

Study Tools

Built-in study tools like highlights and more

* eTextbooks are not downloadable to your eReader or an app and can be accessed via web browsers only. You must be connected to the internet and have no technical issues with your device or browser that could prevent the eTextbook from operating.

These studies take stage history as a means of knowing the play. Half of the studies deal with casting - doubling, chorus and the crowd, the star of Hamlet and Measure for Measure. Then the transformations of dramatis personae are analyzed and The Tempest is viewed through the changing relationships of Prospero, Ariel and Caliban. Some of Shakespeare's most original strategies for audience control are studied, such as Cordelia's asides in King Lear, Richard II's subversive laughter and the scenic alternation of pleasure and duty in Henry IV. Performance is the realization of identity. The book draws on major productions up to 1992, just before the book was originally published.

on
Desktop
Tablet
Mobile

Other Editions and Formats

Paperback

Published: 11th July 2016

More in Dance & Other Performing Arts

Get Rich Cheating : The Crooked Path to Easy Street - Jeff Kreisler

eBOOK

Mao's Last Dancer - Li Cunxin

eBOOK

Leonard Bernstein : American Original - Burton Bernstein

eBOOK

RRP $23.99

$21.11

12%
OFF
Somewhere in the Night - Nicholas Christopher

eBOOK

Fantastic Four - Peter David

eBOOK

$2.99

Star Trek Ds9 18 : Saratoga - Michael Jan Friedman

eBOOK