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Watching Shakespeare
Anthony B. Dawson
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Description for Watching Shakespeare
Paperback. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 340.
Here is a book written primarily for playgoers. Looking closely at eighteen plays, Anthony Dawson examines key decisions that actors and directors have to make, and shows how different interpretations flow from these decisions. His aim is to make audiences more aware of the multiple possibilities that a Shakespearean text provides, and hence better able to assess particular productions. Using frequent and extensive illustration from the modern theatre, he argues that contradiction and creative inconsistency are marks of Shakespeare's plays and that productions usually work best when they embrace opposition and strive for balance, rather than when they adopt one-sided ... Read more
Here is a book written primarily for playgoers. Looking closely at eighteen plays, Anthony Dawson examines key decisions that actors and directors have to make, and shows how different interpretations flow from these decisions. His aim is to make audiences more aware of the multiple possibilities that a Shakespearean text provides, and hence better able to assess particular productions. Using frequent and extensive illustration from the modern theatre, he argues that contradiction and creative inconsistency are marks of Shakespeare's plays and that productions usually work best when they embrace opposition and strive for balance, rather than when they adopt one-sided ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
Number of Pages
260
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333438169
SKU
V9780333438169
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About Anthony B. Dawson
ANTHONY B. DAWSON is Associate Professor of English and Drama at the University of British Columbia. He received his PhD from Harvard where he also taught. He has been active in the theatre for most of his life and is the author of a previous book on Shakespeare called Indirections.
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