Poel, Granville Barker, Guthrie, Wanamaker: Great Shakespeareans: Volume XV

Description

All four figures in this volume have been canonized as central to 'stage-centred' Shakespearean scholarship and stage practice. From William Poel's reproductions of early modern stages in the late nineteenth century to Sam Wanamaker's reconstruction of the Globe on London's South Bank, they all viewed Shakespeare's plays as being enmeshed in the social and historical dynamics of theatremaking and theatregoing. The volume considers how their attempts to recapture early modern performance conditions can be considered progressive.

Cary M. Mazer is Associate Professor of Theatre Arts and English at the University of Pennsylvania, USA.

This makes for a strikingly coherent collection, in which fresh evaluations and effective research are brought to bear on familiar figures, seen in the context of the institutions they inhabited and sought to change. * Shakespeare Survey * This addition to the Great Shakespeareans series provides an apt record of the achievements of four committed, influential individuals. * Around the Globe *