This 1982 book examines The Winter's Tale in performance from Jacobean England to the twentieth century.
In Shakespeare and Child’s-Play Carol Rutter shows how recent performances on stage and film have used the range of Shakespeare’s insights in order to re-examine and re-think these issues in terms of today’s society and culture.
Presents Shakespeare's tragicomedy that focuses on King Leontes, who accuses his boyhood friend of betrayal, condemns his wife for adultery, and banishes his newborn daughter, along with scene-by-scene analysis, commentary on past and ...
On tragicomedy and romance Cooper, Helen, The English Romance in Time: Transforming Motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the ... On performance Bartholomeusz, Dennis, The Winter's Tale in Performance in England and America, 1611–1976 ...
Other titles in the Evans Shakespeare Editions from Cengage Learning As You Like It Heather Dubrow,Volume Editor Hamlet ... Due to electronic rights, some third party content may be suppressed from the eBook and/or eChapter(s).
6 W. W. Greg (1907), who edited the Henslowe archive, declared “That [Henslowe's] methods of business were harsh and often involved injustice can ... 8 Greg (1904) summarizes the contents of these letters in Henslowe's Diary, vol.
A collection that includes a lengthy introduction describing historical trends in critical interpretations and theatrical performances of Shakespeare's play; 20 essays on the play, including two written especially for this volume (by ...
The volume opens with a historical timeline that places the plays in the contexts of contemporary political events, theatrical events, other cultural milestones, Shakespeare's life and that of his playing company, the King's Men.
Shakespeare differed from other authors, including Jonson, in one crucial particular: Shakespeare was a working actor. ... although the dedicatory epistle to William and Philip Herbert claims that Shakespeare was 'your servant', ...
Barker, Roberta (2007), Early Modern Tragedy: Gender and Performance, 1984– 2000, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Barraclough, Leo (2015), 'Kenneth Branagh's Production of “Winter's Tale” Tops U.K. Movie Box Office', Variety, ...
Thompson ( Newark : University of Delaware Press , 1989 ) , 42 ; Dennis Bartholomeusz , The Winter's Tale in Performance in England and America 1611-1976 ( Cambridge : Cam- bridge University Press , 1982 ) , 27 . 13.