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Performing Shakespeare's Tragedies Today: The Actor's Perspective

Hardback

Main Details

Title Performing Shakespeare's Tragedies Today: The Actor's Perspective
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Michael Dobson
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:154
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
Category/GenreDrama
ISBN/Barcode 9780521855099
ClassificationsDewey:792.95
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Professional & Vocational
General
Illustrations 10 Halftones, unspecified

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 30 November 2006
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

What does it mean to perform Shakespeare's Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedies in the modern theatre? This book brings together the reflections of a number of major classical actors on how these works can most powerfully be realized for today's audiences. Concentrating on the 'great' tragedies - Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth and King Lear - the actors offer unique insights into some of the most demanding and rewarding roles in world drama, by showing what it is like to play them on stage. Ten perceptive and articulate performers reflect on their experiences of ten major roles: the Ghost, Gertrude and Hamlet; Iago, Emilia and Othello; Lady Macbeth and Macbeth; Lear's Fool, and King Lear. Together, these essays provide a peculiarly intimate set of trade secrets about what techniques, ideas and memories actors may use when approaching tragic roles in Shakespeare's most challenging plays.

Author Biography

Michael Dobson is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London.

Reviews

'All of the contributors are talented and well-informed raconteurs.' Journal of NTQ