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This book gives some of the very best of Shakespeares twenty-first-century colleagues an opportunity to share insights that can only come from playing himNicholas Hytner, from his ForewordTwelve leading actors take us behind the scenes of landmark Shakespearean productions, each recreating in detail their memorable performance in a major role.Roger Allam on his Falstaff in both Henry IV plays at Shakespeares Globe Eileen Atkins on Viola in two productions of Twelfth Night seventeen years apart Simon Russell Beale on Cassius in Deborah Warners modern-dress Julius CaesarChiwetel Ejiofor on his Donmar Warehouse Othello, directed by Michael Grandage Sara Kestelman on Hippolyta and Titania in Peter Brooks iconic white-box DreamIan McKellen on one of Shakespeares most demanding of roles: King LearMichael Pennington on stepping in at the eleventh hour as Timon of AthensAlan Rickman on re-evaluating the melancholic Jaques in As You Like ItFiona Shaw on Shakespeares Shrew, Katherine, in Jonathan Millers production Patrick Stewart on his Las Vegas-set Shylock, a role he has played many times Harriet Walter on Imogen in Shakespeares late romance, Cymbeline, at the RSC Zoe Wanamaker on her National Theatre Beatrice, directed by Nicholas Hytner Each actor leads us through the choices they made in rehearsal, and how the character works in performance, shedding new light on some of the most challenging roles in the canon. The result is a series of individual masterclasses that will be invaluable for other actors and directors, as well as students of Shakespeare and fascinating for audiences of the plays.Shakespeare On Stage: Volume 2 was shortlisted for the 2018 Theatre Book Prize.Absorbing and original Currys actors are often thinking and talking as that other professional performer, Shakespeare himself, might have done.TLS on Shakespeare On Stage: Vol. 1

The theory that Francis Bacon was, in the main, the author of "Shakespeares plays," has now been for fifty years before the learned world. Its advocates have met with less support than they had reason to expect. Their methods, their logic, and their hypotheses closely resemble those applied by many British and foreign scholars to Homer; and by critics of the very Highest School to Holy Writ. Yet the Baconian theory is universally rejected in England by the professors and historians of English literature; and generally by students who have no profession save that of Letters. The Baconians, however, do not lack the countenance and assistance of highly distinguished persons, whose names are famous where those of mere men of letters are unknown; and in circles where the title of "Professor" is not duly respected.Contents: IntroductionChapter I: The Baconian And Anti-Willian PositionsChapter Ii: The "Silence" About ShakespeareChapter Iii: That Impossible He - The Schooling Of ShakespeareChapter Iv: Mr. Collins On Shakespeares LearningChapter V: Shakespeare, Genius, And SocietyChapter Vi: The Courtly Plays: "Loves Labours Lost"Chapter Vii: Contemporary Recognition Of Will As AuthorChapter Viii: "The Silence Of Philip Henslowe"Chapter Ix: The Later Life Of Shakespeare - His Monument And PortraitsChapter X: "The Traditional Shakspere"Chapter Xi: The First FolioChapter Xii: Ben Jonson And ShakespeareChapter Xiii: The Preoccupations Of BaconAppendicesAppendix I: "Troilus And Cressida"Appendix Ii - Chettles Supposed Allusion To Will ShakspereThis book is annotated with a rare extensive biographical sketch of the author, Andrew Lang, written by Sir Edmund Gosse, CB, a contemporary poet and writer.

An intensely practical account of how A Midsummer Nights Dream actually works on stage.A scene-by-scene guide to Shakespeares best loved comedy, from the well-know actor Michael Pennington, drawing on his own experience of directing A Midsummer Nights Dream at the famous Open Air Theatre in Regents Park, London, in 2003 - described by London critics as a captivating Shakespearian experience (Guardian) and riotously funny and genuinely touching (Telegraph).Praise for Michael Penningtons Users Guides:An insiders guide par excellenceSimon Callow He is sharply intelligent, scrupulously careful, hugely knowledgeable and, above all, wonderfully readablePeter Holland, The Shakespeare InstituteIt is his range of knowledge - along with a gift for writing clearly and memorably - that makes him such a fine guideTLS

1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear traces Shakespeares life and times from the autumn of 1605, when he took an old and anonymous Elizabethan play, The Chronicle History of King Leir, and transformed it into his most searing tragedy, King Lear. 1606 proved to be an especially grim year for England, which witnessed the bloody aftermath of the Gunpowder Plot, divisions over the Union of England and Scotland, and an outbreak of plague. But it turned out to be an exceptional one for Shakespeare, unrivalled at identifying the fault-lines of his cultural moment, who before the year was out went on to complete two other great Jacobean tragedies that spoke directly to these fraught times: Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra.Following the biographical style of 1599, a way of thinking and writing that Shapiro has made his own, 1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear promises to be one of the most significant and accessible works on Shakespeare in the decade to come.

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Plays" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Robert Browning (1812 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, and in particular the dramatic monologue, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. Table of Contents: Introduction: Robert Browning by G. K. Chesterton Plays: Paracelsus Strafford Bells and Pomegranates No. I: Pippa Passes Bells and Pomegranates No. II: King Victor and King Charles Bells and Pomegranates No. IV: The Return of the Druses Bells and Pomegranates No. V: A Blot in the scutcheon Bells and Pomegranates No. VI: Colombes Birthday Bells and Pomegranates No. VIII: Luria and a Souls Tragedy Herakles The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Pippa Passes is a verse drama, which was dedicated to Thomas Noon Talfourd, who had recently attained fame as the author of the tragedy Ion. The author described the work as "the first of a series of dramatic pieces." King Victor and King Charles was the second play written by Robert Browning for the stage. The subject of the play is the strange incident in 173032 in the Kingdom of Sardinia in which the elderly king, Victor Amadeus II, first abdicated in favour of his son Charles Emmanuel III, and then after months of ever-increasing complaints unexpectedly demanded to be restored. He was imprisoned until his death a year later. Brownings treatment is based on 18th century sources which cast Victor as deliberately deceptive, but he goes further to create a secret history in which Charles is exonerated from all charges of cruelty. The play is in four acts and has only four main characters: Victor, Charles, Charless wife Polyxena, and the minister DOrmea. This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Plays" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Plays of Samuel Taylor Coleridge" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He wrote the poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as the major prose work Biographia Literaria. His critical work, especially on Shakespeare, was highly influential, and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to English-speaking culture. He coined many familiar words and phrases, including suspension of disbelief. He was a major influence on Emerson, and American transcendentalism. Coleridge is one of the most important figures in English poetry. His poems directly and deeply influenced all the major poets of the age. He was known by his contemporaries as a meticulous craftsman who was more rigorous in his careful reworking of his poems than any other poet, and Southey and Wordsworth were dependent on his professional advice.Table of Contents:Introduction:The Spirit of the Age: Mr. Coleridge by William HazlittA Day With Samuel Taylor Coleridge by May ByronThe Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by James GillmanPlays:OSORIOREMORSETHE FALL OF ROBESPIERREZAPOLYA: A CHRISTMAS TALE IN TWO PARTSTHE PICCOLOMINITHE DEATH OF WALLENSTEIN

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was an Irish playwright, essayist, novelist and short story writer and wrote more than 60 plays. He is the only person to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize in Literature (1925) and an Academy Award (1938).Content:Novels: Cashel Byrons ProfessionAn Unsocial SocialistLove Among The ArtistsThe Irrational KnotPlays:Widowers HousesThe PhilandererMrs. Warrens ProfessionThe Man Of DestinyArms And The ManCandidaYou Never Can TellThe Devils DiscipleCaptain Brassbounds ConversionCaesar And CleopatraThe Gadfly or The Son of the CardinalThe Admirable BashvilleMan And SupermanJohn Bulls Other IslandHow He Lied To Her HusbandMajor BarbaraPassion, Poison, And PetrifactionThe Doctors DilemmaThe Interlude At The PlayhouseGetting MarriedThe Shewing-Up Of Blanco PosnetPress CuttingsMisallianceThe Dark Lady Of The SonnetsFannys First PlayAndrocles And The LionOverruledPygmalionGreat CatherineThe Music Cure OFlaherty, V. C. Macbeth SkitGlastonbury SkitThe Inca Of Perusalem Augustus Does His BitSkit For The Tiptaft Revue Annajanska, The Bolshevik Empress Heartbreak House Back To MethuselahThe War Indemnities!Saint JoanThe Glimpse Of Reality Fascinating FoundlingThe Apple Cart Too True to Be Good Village Wooing On the RocksBeautys DutyThe Simpleton of the Unexpected IslesThe Six of Calais Arthur and the Acetone The Millionairess Cymbeline RefinishedGeneva "In Good King Charles Golden Days" Miscellaneous Works:What do Men of Letters Say?Do We Agree?On SocialismThe Miraculous Revenge The Perfect WagneriteLetter to Beatrice WebbThe New TheologyMemories of Oscar WildeThe Revolutionists HandbookMaxims For RevolutionistsThe New TheologyMemories of Oscar Wilde...

John Millington Synge, controversial in his own time and long established as a major figure of world theatre, has nonetheless suffered relative critical neglect. Where his great contemporaries Yeats and Joyce and his outstanding successor Beckett have attracted whole industries of scholarly attention, Synge, by reason of his short life and limited output, has been relegated to the unconsidered category of minor classic. This volume of essays, arising from lectures given at the Synge Summer School by some of the most distinguished writers and scholars of Irish literature, sets about the necessary task of interpreting Synge: his relation to cultural and theatrical contexts; the significance of his plays; the distinctive quality of his language and the thematic matrices of his work. Four original poems, specially commissioned for the book, provide an imaginative counterpoint to the critical interpretation of the essays.

This series contains what no other study guides can offer - extensive first-hand interviews with the playwrights and their closest collaborators on all of their major work, put together by top academics especially for the modern student market. As well as invaluable synopses, biographical essays and chronologies, these guides allow the student much closer to the playwright than ever before! In About Hare, Professor Richard Boon provides an in-depth study of one of the great post-war British playwrights. His study includes a rigorous analysis of Hares work, as well as interviews with Hare and those who helped to put his work on stage, including Bill Nighy, Vicki Mortimer, Sir Richard Eyre, Lia Williams and Jonathan Kent. With the increasing interest in this major playwright, whose work attracts the very best of acting talent, this book is a timely publication for student and theatregoer alike.

Tom Stoppard: Faber Critical Guide by Jim Hunter is the essential introduction, analysis and exploration of Tom Stoppards enormously influential body of plays. Are you fascinated by Stoppards plays but want an informed view into their complexities? Are you studying his plays and looking for help with interpretation? Do you teach Stoppard and need a reliable guide? The Faber Critical Guide to Tom Stoppards major work gives us all this and more: - an introduction to the distinctive features of the playwrights work - the significance of the playwright in the context of modern theatre - a detailed analysis of each of the classic plays: language, structure and character - feature of performance - select bibliography Complied by experts in their field, for use in the classroom, at college or at home, Faber Critical Guides are the essential companions to the work of leading playwrights. Also in this series: Faber Critical Guides to the major works of Samuel Beckett, Brian Friel, Sean OCasey and Harold Pinter.

In The Quality of Mercy, one of the worlds most revered theatre directors reflects on a fascinating variety of Shakespearean topics.In this sequence of essays, Peter Brook debates such questions as who was the man who wrote Shakespeares plays, why Shakespeare is never out of date, and how actors should approach Shakespeares verse. He also revisits some of the plays which he has directed with notable brilliance, such as King Lear, Titus Andronicus and, of course, A Midsummer Nights Dream.Taken as a whole, this short but immensely wise book offers an illuminating and provocative insight into a great directors relationship with our greatest playwright.An invaluable gift from the greatest Shakespeare director of our time... Brooks genius, modesty, and brilliance shine through on every page James Shapiro, author of 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare

In About Beckett Emeritus Professor John Fletcher has compiled a thorough and accessible volume that explains why Becketts work is so significant and enduring. Professor Fletcher first met Beckett in 1961 and his book is filled not only with insights into the work but also interviews with Beckett and first-hand stories and observations by those who helped to put his work on the stage, including Dame Peggy Ashcroft, Roger Blin, Peter Hall, Max Wall and George Devine. As an introduction to Beckett and his work, Professor Fletchers book is incomparable.

With over sixty plays written and premiered at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough before going on to play in the West End or the Royal National Theatre, London, or Broadway, Alan Ayckbourns expertise in writing and directing plays is unsurpassed. For the first time, here in The Crafty Art of Playmaking, he shares all his tricks of the trade. From helpful hints on writing (Where do you start? How do you continue? What is comedy and how do you write it? What is tragedy and how does it work?), to tips on directing (working with actors and technicians, when to listen to the other experts, how to cope with rehearsals), the book provides a complete primer for the tyro and a refresher for the more experienced. Written in an accessible and highly entertaining style, with anecdotes galore to illustrate the how, when, where and why, its worth the cover price for the jokes alone.A marvellously useful and enjoyably good-humoured bookDaily Telegraph

Norway, 1881. Mrs. Alving is ecstatic when her son Osvald visits after many years abroad. He has returned to celebrate the heroic memory of his dead father. But within hours of Osvalds homecoming his mother is forced to unearth the past and reveal its terrifying ghosts.

A louca e viciante história de amor de Travis e Abby foi narrada por ela em Belo desastre e por ele em Desastre iminente. Como num conto de fadas moderno, sabemos que eles se casaram e foram felizes para sempre... mas quanto realmente conhecemos dessa historia? Por que Abby fez o pedido de casamento? Que confidencias eles trocaram antes da cerimonia? Onde passaram a noite de nupcias? Quem sabia que eles iam se casar e guardou segredo? Todos os detalhes sobre o casamento de Travis e Abby eram secretos... ate agora. Os fs do casal mais quente da literatura tero todas as suas perguntas respondidas nesta historia vertiginosa sobre o dia (e a noite...) do casamento de Travis e Abby e o melhor, contada pelo ponto de vista dos dois!

Orgulho e preconceito se passa na Inglaterra do século XVIII, na qual nos deparamos com as castas formadas por ricos, burgueses e nobres. A despeito dos cenários antigos descritos no livro, o leitor se deparara com um mundo moderno, pois, por detras de todas as pompas, ritos sociais e regras de etiqueta muito comuns a epoca, mora soberana, na obra de Austen, a critica ao carater humano, sempre diversificado e atemporal. A autora, alem de documentar o convivio das pessoas de sua epoca, denota, atraves de sua prosa, um controle imenso do humor e da ironia - figura de linguagem que exerce total influencia de sua obra - e delata a hipocrisia, a superficialidade e os estereotipos que ate hoje se mantem em voga em nossa sociedade.

A coleção Encontro com os Clássicos apresenta adaptações dos grandes clássicos da literatura universal para os leitores jovens. O objetivo é favorecer um primeiro contato com essas obras por meio de

"Robinson Crusoé" é a obra-prima do escritor inglês Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) e foi publicada originalmente em 1719, no Reino Unido. O livro assume três características específicas: epistolar, confess

Shakespeare, tendo como pano de fundo a Grécia mítica, apresenta uma narrativa em que seres élficos e personagens mitológicos são envolvidos pela magia e compartilham a mesma dimensão. A história se

O corcunda de Notre-Dame é a obra-prima de Victor Hugo e foi publicado em 1831. Na Paris do século XV, Esmeralda, uma jovem cigana, dança na praça da catedral de Notre-Dame e, com sua beleza, transtorna o clerigo Claude Frollo, que, perturbado, ordena ao seu disforme sineiro, Quasimodo, o rapto da moça. Esmeralda e salva por um grupo de arqueiros, comandado pelo capito da guarda Phebus de Chateaupers. Acusada de assassinato, Esmeralda no aceita, para escapar do suplicio, se entregar a Frollo. Quando e levada ao atrio da catedral para receber sua sentença de morte, Quasimodo que a ama, porem de forma desinteressada se apossa dela e a conduz para dentro da igreja, onde a lei de abrigo a torna protegida. A partir dai, muitas coisas vo acontecer e fascinar o leitor.