Shakespeare And The Royal Actor
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Shakespeare and the Royal Actor
Author | : Sally Barnden |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2024-02-06 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780198894971 |
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Explores the extent to which members of the royal family have appropriated the creative legacy of Shakespeare, from the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, in order to shore up royal and national ideologies and to assert the legitimacy of the monarchy.
Shakespeare and the Royal Actor
Author | : Sally Barnden |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2024-02-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780198895022 |
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Shakespeare and the Royal Actor argues that members of the royal family have identified with Shakespearean figures at various times in modern history to assert the continuity, legitimacy, and national identity of the royal line. It provides an account of the relationship between the Shakespearean afterlife and the royal family through the lens of a broadly conceived theatre history suggesting that these two hegemonic institutions had a mutually sustaining relationship from the accession of George III in 1760 to that of Elizabeth II in 1952. Identifications with Shakespearean figures have been deployed to assert the Englishness of a dynasty with strong familial links to Germany and to cultivate a sense of continuity from the more autocratic Plantagenet, Tudor, and Stuart monarchs informing Shakespeare's drama to the increasingly ceremonial monarchs of the modern period. The book is driven by new archival research in the Royal Collection and Royal Archives. It reads these archives critically, asking how different forms of royal and Shakespearean performance are remembered in the material holdings of royal institutions.
Players of Shakespeare 1
Author | : Philip Brockbank |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1988-07-28 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0521368170 |
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Twelve actors describe their preparation for and performance of a Shakespearean role with the Royal Shakespeare Company. The result is an account of the instability of the actor's art as well of his professional discipline.
Something Written in the State of Denmark An Actor s Year with the Royal Shakespeare Company
Author | : Keith Osborn |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2010-05-01 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781849432818 |
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Following in the footsteps of Nick Asbury's bestselling Exit Pursued by a Badger, actor and Royal Shakespeare Company alumnus Keith Osborn tells the story of the company's extraordinary 2008/9 season in Stratford and London, with much drama on and off stage. Keith appeared in Gregory Doran's acclaimed productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream and Love's Labours Lost and, of course, Doran's Hamlet with David Tennant in the title role. Keith's blog was followed by thousands of loyal readers, the book contains some new material covering the early parts of the season and a short account of the BBC's filming of Hamlet in the summer of 2009, rounded out with many rehearsal and production photos taken throughout the season.
Julius Caesar and Me
Author | : Paterson Joseph |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2018-04-05 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781350011205 |
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'Julius Caesar is, simply, Shakespeare's African play' John Kani In 2012, actor Paterson Joseph played the role of Brutus in the Royal Shakespeare Company's acclaimed production of Julius Caesar - Gregory Doran's last play before becoming Artistic Director for the RSC. It is a play, Joseph is quick to acknowledge, that is widely misunderstood - even dreaded - when it comes to study and performance. Alongside offering fascinating insights into Julius Caesar and Shakespeare's writing, Joseph serves up details of the rehearsal process; his key collaborations during an eclectic career; as well as his experience of working with a majority black cast. He considers the positioning of ethnic minority actors in Shakespeare productions in general, and female actors tackling so seemingly masculine a play in particular. Audience reactions are also investigated by Joseph, citing numerous conversations he has had with psychologists, counsellors and neurologists on the subject of what happens between performer and spectator. For Paterson Joseph, his experience of playing Brutus in Julius Caesar with the RSC was a defining point in his career, and a transformative experience. For any actor or practitioner working on Shakespeare - or for any reader interested in his plays - this is a fascinating and informative read, which unlocks so much about making and understanding theatre from the inside.
Players of Shakespeare 4
Author | : Robert Smallwood |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0521794161 |
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This 1998 book is the fourth volume of essays by twelve actors with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Players of Shakespeare 3
Author | : Russell Jackson,Robert Smallwood |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0521477344 |
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Thirteen actors describe the Shakespearean roles they played with the Royal Shakespeare Company between 1987 and 1991. The anthology includes the Company's highly successful adaptation of the Henry VI plays retitled The Plantagenets.
Great Shakespeare Actors
Author | : Stanley Wells |
Publsiher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2015-04-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780191008344 |
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Great Shakespeare Actors offers a series of essays on great Shakespeare actors from his time to ours, starting by asking whether Shakespeare himself was the first—the answer is No—and continuing with essays on the men and women who have given great stage performances in his plays from Elizabethan times to our own. They include both English and American performers such as David Garrick, Sarah Siddons, Charlotte Cushman, Ira Aldridge, Edwin Booth, Henry Irving, Ellen Terry, Edith Evans, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Peggy Ashcroft, Janet Suzman, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, and Kenneth Branagh. Individual chapters tell the story of their subjects' careers, but together these overlapping tales combine to offer a succinct, actor-centred history of Shakespearian theatrical performance. Stanley Wells examines what it takes to be a great Shakespeare actor and then offers a concise sketch of each actor's career in Shakespeare, an assessment of their specific talents and claims to greatness, and an account, drawing on contemporary reviews, biographies, anecdotes, and, for some of the more recent actors, the author's personal memories of their most notable performances in Shakespeare roles.