Performing Shakespeare in the age of empire
著者
書誌事項
Performing Shakespeare in the age of empire
Cambridge University Press, 2006, c2002
- : pbk
大学図書館所蔵 件 / 全2件
-
該当する所蔵館はありません
- すべての絞り込み条件を解除する
注記
"First published 2002, This digitally printed first paperback version 2006"--T.p. verso
Bibliography: p. 213-227
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
During the nineteenth century the performance of Shakespeare's plays contributed significantly to the creation of a sense of British nationhood at home and overseas. This was achieved through the enterprise of the commercial theatre rather that state subsidy and institutions. Britain had no National Theatre, but Shakespeare's plays were performed up and down the land from the fashionable West End to the suburbs of the capital and the expanding industrial conurbations to the north. British actors travelled the world to perform Shakespeare's plays, while foreign actors regarded success in London as the ultimate seal of approval. 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 business of Shakespeare as an enterprise to that of enshrinement as a cultural icon. An examination of leading Shakespearean actors, managers and directors, from Britain and abroad, is also included in the study.
目次
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The hero as actor: William Charles Macready
- 2. Equerries and equestrians: Phelps, Kean and Astley's
- 3. A babel of bardolaters: the 1864 tercentenary
- 4. Made in Manchester: Charles Calvert and George Rignold
- 5. The fashionable tragedian: Henry Irving
- 6. The imperial stage: Beerbohm Tree and Benson
- 7. The national arena: Granville Barker, Louis Calvert and Annie Horniman
- 8. The theatre of war: the 1916 tercentenary
- In conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index.
「Nielsen BookData」 より