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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Series: Shakespeare in Performance
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This scholarly but accessible study is ideal for students, theatre practitioners, and enthusiasts interested in 20th-century productions and adaptations of A Midsummer Night's Dream, including analyses of stage and film interpretations.
After an historical survey of A Midsummer Night's Dream fromShakespeare's time through to the 19th century, Jay Halio focuses primarily on20th century productions and adaptations, for film and television as well asfor the stage.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream is Shakespeare's most enchanting comedy, and in the 20th century it has become perhaps his most popular play. It contains some of Shakespeare's loveliest poetry and is one of his most complex and effective dramatic structures.
After a historical survey of the Dream from Shakespeare's time through to the 19th century, Jay Halio focuses primarily on 20th-century productions and adaptations, for film and television as well as for the stage. Chapters are devoted to productions by Max Reinhardt, Peter Hall, Robert Lepage, and especially to Peter Brook's landmark production in 1970 and the reactions to it.
Using a wealth of personal experience, as well as original promptbooks and critical reviews, Halio shows how differently but still very effectively the play may be staged, as the wide variety of plays he records. This second, enlarged edition contains three additional chapters on Adrian Noble's RSC production and film, Michael Hoffman's film, and the Dream in China.
Written in clear, jargon-free language, it offers an extended study of major 20th-century productions of the Dream in their historical context.
Series: Shakespeare in Performance
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ISBN: 9780719062216
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 19 June 2003
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Edition: 2nd edition
Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 13.0mm
Width: 138.0mm
Height: 216.0mm
Weight: 290g
Pages: 224
About the Author
Carol Chillington Rutter is Professor of English at the University of Warwick
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