John Wyver

Screening the Royal Shakespeare Company (eBook, PDF)

A Critical History

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

No theatre company has been involved in such a broad range of adaptations for television and cinema as the Royal Shakespeare Company. Starting with Richard III filmed in the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre before World War One, the RSC's accomplishments continue today with highly successful live cinema broadcasts. The Wars of the Roses (BBC, 1965), Peter Brook's film of King Lear (1971), Channel 4's epic version of Nicholas Nickleby (1982) and Hamlet with David Tennant (BBC, 2009) are among their most iconic adaptations. Many other RSC productions live on as extracts in documentaries, as archival recordings, in trailers and in other fragmentary forms.

Screening the Royal Shakespeare Company explores this remarkable history of collaborations between stage and screen and considers key questions about adaptation that concern all those involved in theatre, film and television. John Wyver is a broadcasting historian and the producer of RSC Live from Stratford-upon-Avon, and is uniquely well-placed to provide a vivid account of the company's television and film productions. He contributes an award-winning practitioner's insight into screen adaptation's numerous challenges and rich potential.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350006607
• Artikelnr.: 56950168

Autorenporträt

John Wyver is an independent scholar and a writer and producer and Director, Screen Productions at the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Note on the Text Introduction Chapter 1: Beginners, 1910
59 Chapter 2: Television Times, 1962
68 Chapter 3: Making Movies, 1964
73 Chapter 4: Intimate Spaces, 1972
82 Chapter 5: Toil and Troubles, 1982
2012 Chapter 6: Now
ness, 2000
18 Notes Filmography Bibliography Index