TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bickley,Pamela
AU  - Stevens,Jenny
TI  - Shakespeare and early modern drama: text and performance 
T2  - The Arden Shakespeare : Drama and performance studies
SN  - 9781472577139 (pbk)
AV  - PR2976 .B448 2016
U1  - 822.33/B473 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - London, England, UK : 
PB  - Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 
KW  - Shakespeare, William,
KW  - English drama
KW  - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
KW  - History and criticism
N1  - Includes bibliographic references (pages 301-331) and index; Romeo and Juliet -- Getting over the language: William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996) -- "The duchess of Malfi" -- Moving performances: Malfi at the Blackfriars and the globe -- "The merchant of Venice" -- Playing the Jew: Al Pacino in the Michael Radford's "The merchant of Venice" (2004) -- "Volpone, or the Fox" -- "Volpone as beast fable" -- "The taming of the shrew" -- Shakespeare goes to Hollywood: Burton and Taylor (1966) -- "The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry" -- Closet drama -- "Othello" -- Performing "Othello" in the twenty-first century -- "The Changeling" -- "Compulsion" (2009) -- "The Spanish Tragedy" -- Things on stage -- "Titus Andronicus" -- Julie Taymor's "Titus" and the aesthetics fo revenge -- "Measure for measure" -- Casting Isabella -- "Tis pity she's a whore" -- "The cook, the thief, his wife and her lover: Peter" -- Greenaway's theatre of blood -- "Doctor Faustus" -- Performing "Dr. Faustus": Stage on screen (2010) -- "Hamlet" -- A Soviet " Hamlet": Grigori Kozintsev (Lenfilm, 1964); HS
N2  - Where does Shakespeare fit into the drama of his day? Getting to know the work of Shakespeare's contemporaries offers an insight into Elizabethan and Jacobean preoccupations and the theatrical climate of the early modern period. This book provides an essential overview of some major dramatic works from their stage origins to today's screen productions. Each chapter includes: a detailed analysis of a play by Shakespeare considered alongside a key work by one other significant playwright of the day (including The Merchant of Venice, Volpone, The Spanish Tragedy, Titus Andronicus, Othello, The Changeling, Romeo and Juliet, The Duchess of Malfi, Measure for Measure, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, The Taming of the Shrew, The Tragedy of Mariam, Doctor Faustus and Hamlet); close reading of the texts; a discussion of early modern theatrical practices; a focus on one ground-breaking example of early modern drama on screen; suggestions for links with other early modern texts and further reading. This is an ideal introduction for students of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, providing a route map to the very latest developments in early modern drama studies while fostering confident and independent critical thinking about a range of canonical texts. -- from back cover.
ER  -