Othello

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Shakespeare Handbooks

ISBN: 0230535674
ISBN 13: 9780230535671
Autor: Edmondson, P/Hampton-Reeves, Stuart
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: 176 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 09.12.2010
Auflage: 1/2010
Produktform: Kartoniert
Einband: Kartoniert

Othello is one of Shakespeare’s most theatrically striking plays. This Handbook focuses on Othello as a dramatic work which exploits the resources of the early modern stage and yet still challenges contemporary theatres. Exploring race and gender as performance issues throughout the study, Stuart Hampton-Reeves: examines the play’s earliest performances and the problem of staging darkness on Shakespeare’s stage analyses the play from a performance point of view scene by scene, line by line surveys key productions and films, tracing the play’s move away from mainstream theatres draws together the latest criticism on Othello’s treatment of identity and sexuality.

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Beschreibung

An introductory guide to Othello in performance offering a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commentary, contextual documents, a brief history of the text and first performances, case studies of key productions, a survey of screen adaptations, a sampling of critical opinion and further reading.

Autorenporträt

STUART HAMPTON-REEVES is Professor of Research-Informed Teaching at the University of Central Lancashire, UK, and a Trustee of the British Shakespeare Association. His previous publications include the volume on Measure for Measure, also in the Shakespeare Handbooks series.

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