A Pocket Guide to Ibsen, Chekhov & Strindberg

Stephen-unwin-michael-pennington

ISBN 10: 0571214754 / ISBN 13: 9780571214754

Verlag: Faber & Faber, 2004

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers U9780571214754

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A Pocket Guide to Ibsen, Chekhov and Strindberg, by Michael Pennington and Stephen Unwin, is a handy reference book which provides an introduction, analysis and production details - as well as much besides - of three of the world's all-time greatest playwrights.

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Recently a triumphant King Lear in New York, Michael Pennington has been a leading actor for fifty years. For the RSC, of which he is an Honorary Associate Artist, and for the English Shakespeare Company, which he co-founded, he has played Hamlet, Timon of Athens, Berowne, Edgar, Mercutio, Angelo, Richard II, Coriolanus, Macbeth, Henry V, Leontes and Jack Cade. He directed Twelfth Night in the UK, Tokyo and Chicago and The Hamlet Project for the National Theatre Bucharest. In 2004 he gave the British Academy Shakespeare Lecture, the first practitioner to do so since 1925.

He has also played leading roles in Chekhov, Ibsen, de Filippo, Euripides, Molière, Congreve, Osborne, Pinter, Harwood, O'Casey, Tolstoy, Wilde, Dostoyevsky, Stoppard, Bulgakov, Shaf-fer, Granville-Barker, Brenton, Orton, Hecht and Mac Arthur, Mamet, Strindberg and many others. He played Oedipus on BBC TV, Jude the Obscure on radio and Michael Foot in The Iron Lady. He has written User's Guides to Hamlet, Twelfth Night and A Midsummer Night's Dream; The Pocket Guide to Ibsen, Chekhov and Strindberg (Faber, with Stephen Unwin); Sweet William: Twenty Thousand Hours with Shakespeare; and Are You There, Crocodile?: Inventing Anton Chekhov. He continues to tour his solo shows on Shakespeare and Chekhov throughout the world.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: A Pocket Guide to Ibsen, Chekhov & Strindberg
Verlag: Faber & Faber
Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: Very Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: 9776428
Signiert: 5/11/2026 6:23:32 AM
Auflage: 1778480612.