Representing Shakespeare: England, History and the RSCHarvester Wheatsheaf, 1994 - 222 pàgines This text traces the changing theatrical and cultural identity of the History plays in the context of postwar social and political conflict, crisis and change. Since the company's inception in the early 1960s, the RSC's commitment to relevance has fostered close relationships between Shakespearean criticism and performance, and between the theatre and its audiences. Through a detailed discussion of key productions, from "The War of the Roses" in 1963 to "The Plantegenets" in 1988, Robert Shaughnessy emphasizes the political dimension of contemporary theatrical representations of Shakespeare, and of the "Shakespearean" modes of history that these plays have been employed to promote; individualist, cyclical, male-dominated, and driven by essentialised, transcendent human nature. |
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... theatre companies . 12 At the same time , partly as a way of resolving the contradictions between its establishment status and its more radical objectives , the RSC cultivated its own internal ' alterna- tive ' theatre for Shakespeare ...
... theatre geared towards the production of large - scale spectacle and scenic illusion . This disparity has long been noted , and can be traced back to the genesis of what was then the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre amidst the ashes of its ...
... Theatre and never will be . '78 This last assertion seems ironic , given that the RSC's early successes had effectively constituted it as a national theatre in all but name ; but Hands's determination to steer the RSC away from the ...
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Chapter | 11 |
Production criticism critical production | 22 |
Chapter Three | 37 |
Copyright | |
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