The Comedy of Errors (The RSC Shakespeare) - Softcover

Rasmussen, Eric

 
9780230284128: The Comedy of Errors (The RSC Shakespeare)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0230284124 ISBN 13: 9780230284128
Verlag: Red Globe Press, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's anarchic comedy. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview of The Comedy of Errors in performance, takes a detailed look at specific productions, and recommends film versions. Included in this edition are interviews with three leading directors - Paul Hunter, Nancy Meckler and Tim Supple - providing an illuminating insight into the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible. This edition also includes an essay on Shakespeare's career and Elizabethan theatre, and enables the reader to understand the play as it was originally intended - as living theatre to be enjoyed and performed.

Ideal for students, theatre-goers, actors and general readers, the RSC Shakespeare editions offer a fresh, accessible and contemporary approach to reading and rediscovering Shakespeare's works for the twenty-first century.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Eric Rasmussen is a Professor and Chair of the English department at the University of Nevada, Reno, USA.

JONATHAN BATE is Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature, University of Warwick, UK.

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Informative, thought-provoking and humane.' - Dr Colin Burrow, University of Oxford

From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a fresh new edition of Shakespeare's anarchic comedy

THIS EDITION INCLUDES:
• An illuminating introduction to The Comedy of Errors by award-winning scholar Jonathan Bate
• The play - with clear and authoritative explanatory notes on each page
• A helpful scene-by-scene analysis and key facts about the play
• An introduction to Shakespeare's career and the Elizabethan theatre
• A rich exploration of approaches to staging the play featuring photographs of key productions

The most enjoyable way to understand a Shakespeare play is to see it or participate in it. This unique edition presents a historical overview of The Comedy of Errors in performance, recommends film versions, takes a detailed look at specific productions and includes interviews with three leading directors – Paul Hunter, Nancy Meckler and Tim Supple – so that we may get a sense of the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible, a variety that gives Shakespeare his unique capacity to be reinvented and made 'our contemporary' four centuries after his death.

Ideal for students, theatre-goers, actors and general readers, the RSC Shakespeare plays offer an accessible and contemporary approach to reading and rediscovering Shakespeare's works for the twenty-first century.

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Verlag
Red Globe Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0230284124
ISBN 13 
9780230284128
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
164
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