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Shakespeare - Plays, History, & Criticism, English Drama - 16th-17th Century - Elizabethan & Jacobean Eras - Shakespeare - Literary Criticism, Great Britain - Theater - History & Criticism, Literary Adaptations to Film
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Richard III

by Paul Prescott
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Overview

This study offers students and performers an expansive introduction to the rich history and exciting performance potential of Shakespeare's play. An extensive commentary focuses on the challenges to actors and directors in putting Richard III onstage and encourages the reader to engage imaginatively with Shakespeare's words. Separate chapters on stage, film, textual and critical history combine with the commentary to form a comprehensive and wide-ranging study of one of Shakespeare's most popular and theatrically thrilling plays.

Synopsis

This study offers students and performers an expansive introduction to the rich history and exciting performance potential of Shakespeare's play. An extensive commentary focuses on the challenges to actors and directors in putting Richard III onstage and encourages the reader to engage imaginatively with Shakespeare's words. Separate chapters on stage, film, textual and critical history combine with the commentary to form a comprehensive and wide-ranging study of one of Shakespeare's most popular and theatrically thrilling plays.

About the Author, Paul Prescott

Paul Prescott is the Capital Centre Lecturer in English at the University of Warwick and has acted, directed and taught Shakespeare in Britain, America and Japan. His work has appeared in Shakespeare Survey, the Blackwell Companion to Shakespeare and Performance, and the revised Penguin Shakespeare series; he is currently working on Shakespeare and the Director (Oxford Shakespeare Topics, with Dennis Kennedy).

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Book Details

Published
May 1, 2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pages
176
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781403941442

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