Author : Andy Lavender
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,13 MB
Release : 2003-02-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780826414618
Within the space of a year, between 1995 and 1996, three highly unusual shows were produced by three celebrated figures in world theatre: Qui Est La, directed by Peter Brook, Elsinore, directed by Robert Lepage, and Hamlet: a monologue, directed by Robert Wilson. Each was a version-at least in part-of Shakespeare's Hamlet, although none of them treated the show in anything like an orthodox manner.
Author : Andy Lavender
Publisher : New York : Continuum
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 13,24 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Drama
ISBN :
This text examines the ways in which Peter Brook, Robert Lepage and Robert Wilson have fundamentally reworked Shakespeare's famous play. Andy Lavender has had direct access to all three productions, attending rehearsals as well as performances of the shows.
Author : Barbro Lindgren
Publisher : Restless Books
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 17,52 MB
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1632062593
A hilarious, darkly comic graphic retelling of Shakespeare’s Hamlet in radically condensed prose by legendary Swedish children’s author Barbro Lindgren and illustrator Anna Höglund. Look Hamlet. Hamlet not happy. Hamlet’s mommy dumb. Hamlet’s daddy dead. So begins this wonderfully strange, dark, and hilarious picture book version of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy boiled down to its smallest possible size: 100 words, give or take, and fifteen etchings that look like the lovechild of Beatrix Potter and Edward Gorey. In our despondent antihero, a lop-eared bunny Hamlet with handbag in tow, is somehow embodied all the tremendous pathos of Shakespeare’s Danish Prince. And in legendary Swedish children’s author Barbro Lindgren’s pithy prose resides the poetry of the original, reworked for the era of memes and short attention spans. Bold and brilliant, irreverent and humane, Look Hamlet is the perfect irreverent gift for Shakespeare readers of all ages. As the Bard himself wrote: “brevity is the soul of wit.”
Author : Simon Palfrey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 47,54 MB
Release : 2007-09-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0199272050
A truly groundbreaking collaboration of original theatre history with exciting literary criticism, Shakespeare in Parts is the first book fully to explore the original form in which Shakespeare's drama overwhelmingly circulated. This was not the full play-text; it was not the public performance. It was the actor's part, consisting of the bare cues and speeches of each individual role. With group rehearsals rare or non-existent, the cued part alone had to furnish the actor with his character. But each such part-text was riddled with gaps and uncertainties. The actor knew what he was going to say, but not necessarily when, or why, or to whom; he may have known next to nothing of any other part. Starting with a comprehensive history of the part in early modern theatre, Simon Palfrey and Tiffany Stern's work provides a unique keyhole onto hitherto forgotten practices and techniques. It not only discovers a newly active, choice-ridden actor, but a new Shakespeare.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 33,90 MB
Release : 2022-03-24
Category :
ISBN : 9781638435020
Author : Margreta de Grazia
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 16,36 MB
Release : 2007-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521870259
A study tracing the impact and evolution of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Author : Ian Doescher
Publisher : Quirk Books
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 38,40 MB
Release : 2013-07-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1594746559
The New York Times Best Seller Experience the Star Wars saga reimagined as an Elizabethan drama penned by William Shakespeare himself, complete with authentic meter and verse, and theatrical monologues and dialogue by everyone from Darth Vader to R2D2. Return once more to a galaxy far, far away with this sublime retelling of George Lucas’s epic Star Wars in the style of the immortal Bard of Avon. The saga of a wise (Jedi) knight and an evil (Sith) lord, of a beautiful princess held captive and a young hero coming of age, Star Wars abounds with all the valor and villainy of Shakespeare’s greatest plays. Authentic meter, stage directions, reimagined movie scenes and dialogue, and hidden Easter eggs throughout will entertain and impress fans of Star Wars and Shakespeare alike. Every scene and character from the film appears in the play, along with twenty woodcut-style illustrations that depict an Elizabethan version of the Star Wars galaxy. Zounds! This is the book you’re looking for.
Author : M.E. Castle
Publisher :
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,81 MB
Release : 2017-05-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 125010159X
Kyle, the world's most reluctant reader, is transported to the events of William Shakespeare's "Hamlet," and must defeat the evil Uncle Claudius and make it to the end of the story.
Author : Dominic Dromgoole
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 34,6 MB
Release : 2017-04-26
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0802189687
A New York Times Notable Book: “A loving testament to the enduring ability of Shakespeare’s play to connect in myriad ways across countries and cultures” (Pop Matters). For the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth, the Globe Theatre undertook an unparalleled journey: to take Hamlet to every country on the planet, to share this beloved play with the entire world. The tour was the brainchild of Dominic Dromgoole, artistic director of the Globe, and in Hamlet: Globe to Globe, Dromgoole takes readers along with him. From performing in sweltering deserts, ice-cold cathedrals, and heaving marketplaces, and despite food poisoning in Mexico, the threat of ambush in Somaliland, an Ebola epidemic in West Africa, and political upheaval in Ukraine, the Globe’s players pushed on. Dromgoole shows us the world through the prism of Shakespeare—what the Danish prince means to the people of Sudan, the effect of Ophelia on the citizens of Costa Rica, and how a sixteenth-century play can touch the lives of Syrian refugees. And thanks to this incredible undertaking, Dromgoole uses the world to glean new insight into this masterpiece, exploring the play’s history, its meaning, and its pleasures. “The Shakespearean equivalent of Bourdain’s TV series, Parts Unknown. . . . [Dromgoole’s] aesthetic principle, or unprincipled aesthetic, makes him a natural tour guide for global Shakespeare . . . A comic epic.” —The Washington Post
Author : James E. Groves
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,26 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Psychology and literature
ISBN : 9781138556270
Hamlet on the Couch weaves a close reading of Shakespeare's Hamlet with a large variety of contemporary psychoanalytic and psychological theory, looking at the interplay of ideas between the two. Combining deep, insightful knowledge of Shakespeare and of psychoanalysis, Hamlet on the Couch will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists, as well as literary scholars.
