The Merry Wives of Windsor (The RSC Shakespeare) - Softcover

Rasmussen, Prof. Eric; Bate, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0230284116 ISBN 13: 9780230284111

Verlag: The RSC Shakespeare, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's enduringly popular comedy. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview of The Merry Wives of Windsor in performance, takes a detailed look at specific productions, and recommends film versions. Included in this edition are interviews with two leading directors and an actor - Bill Alexander, Rachel Kavanaugh and Simon Callow - providing an illuminating insight into the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible. This edition also includes an essay on Shakespeare's career and Elizabethan theatre, and enables the reader to understand the play as it was originally intended - as living theatre to be enjoyed and performed.

Ideal for students, theatre-goers, actors and general readers, the RSC Shakespeare editions offer a fresh, accessible and contemporary approach to reading and rediscovering Shakespeare's works for the twenty-first century.

Über diesen Titel

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Eric Rasmussen is a Professor and Chair of the English department at the University of Nevada, Reno, USA.

JONATHAN BATE is Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature, University of Warwick, UK.

Von der hinteren Coverseite

Jonathan Bate is a passionate advocate of Shakespeare and his introductions are full of striking and convincing observations ... footnotes at the bottom of each page gloss unfamiliar items of vocabulary, paraphrase tricky meanings and uncover bawdy puns. There is a universe to be found in these annotations: the Renaissance world of power and fate, sex and death, language and philosophy.' - The Times Educational Supplement

From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a fresh new edition of Shakespeare's enduringly popular comedy

THIS EDITION INCLUDES:
• An illuminating introduction to The Merry Wives of Windsor by award-winning scholar Jonathan Bate
• The play - with clear and authoritative explanatory notes on each page
• A helpful scene-by-scene analysis and key facts about the play
• An introduction to Shakespeare's career and the Elizabethan theatre
• A rich exploration of approaches to staging the play featuring photographs of key productions

The most enjoyable way to understand a Shakespeare play is to see it or participate in it. This unique edition presents a historical overview of The Merry Wives of Windsor in performance, recommends film versions, takes a detailed look at specific productions and includes interviews with two leading directors and an actor – Bill Alexander, Rachel Kavanaugh and Simon Callow - so that we may get a sense of the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible, a variety that gives Shakespeare his unique capacity to be reinvented and made 'our contemporary' four centuries after his death.

Ideal for students, theatre-goers, actors and general readers, the RSC Shakespeare plays offer an accessible and contemporary approach to reading and rediscovering Shakespeare's works for the twenty-first century.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: The RSC Shakespeare
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0230284116
• ISBN 13: 9780230284111
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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