Carol Chillington Rutter

Antony and Cleopatra (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book writes a performance history of Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare's most ambiguous play, from 1606 to the present. It observes the choices that actors, directors, designers, musicians and adapters have made each time they have brought the play's thoughts on power, race, masculinity, regime change, exoticism, love, dotage and delinquency into alignment with a new present. Informed by close attention to theatre records - promptbooks, stage managers' reports, reviews - it offers in-depth analyses of fifteen international productions by (among others) the Royal Shakespeare Company, Citizens Theatre Glasgow, Northern Broadsides, Berliner Ensemble and Toneelgroep Amsterdam. It ends seeing Shakespeare's black Egyptian Queen Cleopatra - whited-out in performance for centuries - restored to the contemporary stage. Written in a lively and accessible style, this book will be of interest to students, academics, actors, directors and general readers alike.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526132512
• Artikelnr.: 59886930

Autorenporträt

Carol Chillington Rutter

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: A play that 'approves the common liar' 1 'That time? O times!': The Jacobean Antony and Cleopatra 2 'Famous patterns of unlawful love': Antony and Cleopatra
1677-1931 3 'Wogs exit nearest way': Glen Byam Shaw
Shakespeare Memorial Theatre
1953 4 'By certain scales i'th' pyramid': Taking the Measure of Antony and Cleopatra
Royal Shakespeare Company 1972
1978
1982 5 Boying Greatness: The Citizens' Theatre (Glasgow)
1972 and Northern Broadsides (Halifax)
1995 6 'Back to Basics': Peter Hall
Olivier Theatre
National Theatre 1987 7 'Some Squeaking Cleopatra': Shakespeare's Globe
1999 8 Estranging the crocodile: Foreign Antony and Cleopatra in Britain and abroad 9 Restoring blackness: Josette Bushell-Mingo's Cleopatra
Royal Exchange Manchester (2005); Tarell Alvin McCraney's 'Radical Edit'
RST
The Public
and GableStage (2013) Cast lists Bibliography