Our moonlight revels
A midsummer night's dream in the theatre
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Author
Publication
1997 - University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, Iowa
Language
English
Word Count
86,000 words, Guess
Page Count
344 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL675571M
- ISBN-100877455929
- OCLC Control Number36942599
- OCLC Control Numberourmoonlightreve0000will
- Library of Congress Control Number97021764
and 2 more
- LibraryThing2304608
- Goodreads5189345
Classifications
- DDC822.3/3
- LCCPR2827 .W59 1997
Description
In his richly detailed, beautifully illustrated history of Shakespeare's most popular play - the first comprehensive study of A Midsummer Night's Dream in the theatre - Gary Jay Williams covers four hundred years of landmark productions in Europe, the United States, and Canada as well as important opera, dance, and film adaptations. Williams shows how the visual and musical vocabularies of production can be read as cultural texts and how these mediative texts determine this play's available meanings from generation to generation. His account, then, is the story of our imaginative and astonishing uses of Shakespeare's play. Williams offers detailed theatrical and cultural analyses of the productions of David Garrick, Ludwig Tieck, Elizabeth Vestris, Charles Kean, Harley Granville-Barker, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Max Reinhardt, Peter Brook, Liviu Ciulei, and other artists. His engaging, intelligent study will be invaluable to scholars and teachers of Shakespeare and theatre history and to professional directors, designers, critics, and actors.
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Series Statement
- Studies in theatre history and culture
Other Editions
- Our moonlight revels: A midsummer night's dream in the theatre
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