Performing Shakespeare in the Age of Empire

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Cambridge University Press, 2006 M12 14 - 248 páginas
During the nineteenth century, the performance of Shakespeare's plays contributed to the creation of a sense of British nationhood at home and overseas. In this book Richard Foulkes explores the political and social uses of Shakespeare through the nineteenth and into the twentieth century and the movement from the consideration of Shakespeare as an enterprise to that of enshrinement as a cultural icon. An examination of leading Shakespearian actors, managers and directors, from Britain and abroad, is also included in the study.

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Phelps Kean and Astleys
32
the 1864 tercentenary
58
Charles Calvert and George Rignold
82
Henry Irving
105
Beerbohm Tree and Benson
130
Granville Barker Louis Calvert
157
the 1916 tercentenary
180
In conclusion
205
Index
228
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Richard Foulkes is a leading scholar of Victorian theatre and drama, with a special interest in the interpretation and performance of Shakespeare of the time. His work includes editorship of Shakespeare and the Victorian Stage (1986) and British Theatre in the 1890s: Essays on Drama and the Stage (1993); and author of Church and Stage in Victorian England (1997), The Shakespeare Tercentenary of 1864 (1984) and Repertory at the Royal: Sixty-Five Years of Theatre in Northampton, 1927-1992 (1992). Dr Foulkes has also published in Shakespeare Survey, British Dramatists Since World War II, The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare, and the forthcoming New Dictionary of National Biography, of which he is an Associate Editor.

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TítuloPerforming Shakespeare in the Age of Empire
AutorRichard Foulkes
Ediciónilustrada, reimpresa
EditorCambridge University Press, 2006
ISBN0521034426, 9780521034425
Largo248 páginas
  
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