The Essential Shakespeare Live: The Royal Shakespeare Company in Performance

British Library, The

ISBN 10: 0712305246 ISBN 13: 9780712305242

Verlag: The British Library Publishing Division, 2005

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The British Library and the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) join forces to publish this remarkable audio treasury of live Shakespearian performances. Selected from an extensive collection of recordings made by the British Library Sound Archive, these two double CD sets offer scenes and speeches from some of the most celebrated Shakespeare productions in the history of the Royal Shakespeare Company. The extracts cover almost half a century of productions, from Laurence Olivier as Coriolanus in 1959 to Ian McKellen as King Lear in 2007. Both Essential Shakespeare Live and Essential Shakespeare Encore! also include booklets that reproduce the play-text of each recorded extract in full along with introductions by Gregory Doran, Chief Association Director of the RSC.

Essential Shakespeare Live features such notable actors of stage and screen as Judi Dench, Peter Brook, John Barton, Peggy Ashcroft, Alan Howard, Derek Jacobi, Ian McKellen, Alan Rickman, Anthony Sher, Donald Sinden, Robert Stephens, Patrick Stewart, Janet Suzman, and David Warner. Among the plays included in the set are King Lear, Hamlet,Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, All’s Well that Ends Well,Henry V, and Richard III.

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William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist.Gregory Doran is the Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company. His notable productions includeMacbeth starring Antony Sher, which was filmed for Channel 4 in 2001, as well asHamlet in 2008, starring David Tennant and Patrick Stewart. His most recent productions includeMorte D'Arthur and The Canterbury Tales.

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• Verlag: The British Library Publishing Division
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0712305246
• ISBN 13: 9780712305242
• Einband: Audio CD
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