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Evoking (and Forgetting!) Shakespeare
Peter Brook
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Description for Evoking (and Forgetting!) Shakespeare
Paperback. A revised edition of Peter Brook's take on Shakespeare, with a new chapter. The book addresses a number of questions about performing Shakespeare today: Why is Shakespeare not out of date? What do we mean by Shakespeare's "genius" or "creativity". Num Pages: 48 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 201 x 129 x 4. Weight in Grams: 66.
The text of a talk given by renowned theatre director Peter Brook in Berlin in 1998, addressing essential questions about performing Shakespeare today. Brook invites us to consider the actual conditions of the Elizabethan theatre and the actual qualities of Shakespeare's language.
Published as part of the Dramatic Contexts series: important statements on the theatre by major figures in the theatre.
Product Details
Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
48
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
Number of Pages
48
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781854597120
SKU
V9781854597120
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Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2
About Peter Brook
Peter Brook (1925–2022) was one of the most influential and important figures in twentieth-century theatre. Outstanding in a career full of remarkable achievements were his productions of Titus Andronicus (1955) with Laurence Olivier, King Lear (1962) with Paul Scofield, and The Marat/Sade (1964) and A Midsummer Night's Dream (1970), both for the Royal Shakespeare Company. After moving to ... Read more
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