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Performing King Lear: Gielgud to Russell Beale
Jonathan Croall
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Description for Performing King Lear: Gielgud to Russell Beale
Paperback. A unique exploration of the challenges and rewards of performing "King Lear "based on interviews with leading actors and directors. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: ANB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 233 x 17. Weight in Grams: 442.
King Lear is arguably the most complex and demanding play in the whole of Shakespeare. Once thought impossible to stage, today it is performed with increasing frequency, both in Britain and America. It has been staged more often in the last fifty years than in the previous 350 years of its performance history, its bleak message clearly chiming in with the growing harshness, cruelty and violence of the modern world. Performing King Lear offers a very different and practical perspective from most studies of the play, being centred firmly on the reality of creation ... Read more
King Lear is arguably the most complex and demanding play in the whole of Shakespeare. Once thought impossible to stage, today it is performed with increasing frequency, both in Britain and America. It has been staged more often in the last fifty years than in the previous 350 years of its performance history, its bleak message clearly chiming in with the growing harshness, cruelty and violence of the modern world. Performing King Lear offers a very different and practical perspective from most studies of the play, being centred firmly on the reality of creation ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474223850
SKU
V9781474223850
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Ref
99-15
About Jonathan Croall
Jonathan Croall is a distinguished biographer and theatre historian. He is the author of twenty books, notably the acclaimed biographies John Gielgud: Matinee Idol to Movie Star (Methuen Drama) and Sybil Thorndike: A Star of Life.
Reviews for Performing King Lear: Gielgud to Russell Beale
[An] illuminating survey of modern approaches to the play in performance ... [providing] succinct accounts of nearly 50 performances over the last half-century.
The Guardian
There are about 40 living actors who've tackled the role. Read this book, all ye students, and find out as much as you can about how it's been done in the recent past. ... Read more
The Guardian
There are about 40 living actors who've tackled the role. Read this book, all ye students, and find out as much as you can about how it's been done in the recent past. ... Read more