Orson Welles on Shakespeare : the W.P.A. and Mercury Theatre playscripts

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Orson Welles on Shakespeare : the W.P.A. and Mercury Theatre playscripts

edited with an introduction by Richard France ; foreword by Simon Callow

Routledge, 2001, c1990

1st Routledge pbk. ed.

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Note

Includes adaptations of Shakespeare's Macbeth and Julius Caesar, and Welles's Five kings, adapted from Shakespeare and based on Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland

"First published in 1990 by Greenwood Press"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-297)

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This volume is the only publication available of the fully annotated playscripts of Wells' W.P.A Federal Theatre Project and Mercury Theatre adaptations, including the "Voodoo" Macbeth, the modern-dress Julius Caesar and Welles' compilation of history plays, Five Kings.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Editor's Note Acknowledgments Introduction Macbeth *Preface * Production Credits and Cast * Act One * act Two * Act Three * Notes to Macbeth Julius Caesar * Preface * Production Credits and Cast * Playscript * Notes to Julius Caesar Five Kings * Preface * Production Credits and Cast * Act One * Act Two * Act Three * Notes to Five Kings Selected Bibliographhy

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