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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826112503321

Autore

Friedman Michael D.

Titolo

Titus Andronicus / / Michael D. Friedman with Alan C. Dessen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, England ; ; New York, New York : , : Manchester University Press, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

1-5261-0191-2

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (329 p.)

Collana

Shakespeare in Performance

Disciplina

822.33

Soggetti

LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Shakespeare in Performance: Titus Andronicus; Half Title Page ; Title Page ; Copyright ; Dedication ; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; SERIES EDITORS' PREFACE; PREFATORY NOTE; PREFATORY NOTE TO SECOND EDITION; PART ONE; INTRODUCTION: The Problem; CHAPTER I: From Edward Ravenscroft to Peter Brook ; CHAPTER II: To stylise or not to stylise; CHAPTER III: Trusting the script: Deborah Warner at the Swan; CHAPTER IV: Problems then and now; CHAPTER V: The sense of an ending; CONCLUSION: What price Titus?; PART TWO; SEGUE; CHAPTER I: Jeannette Lambermont, Daniel Mesguich, and Michael Maggio

CHAPTER II: Peter Stein and Silviu PurcareteCHAPTER III: Gregory Doran; CHAPTER IV: Julie Taymor: 1994 and 1999; CHAPTER V: Yukio Ninagawa, Bill Alexander, Gale Edwards, Richard Rose, and Lucy Bailey; EPILOGUE: Looking toward the future; APPENDIX; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Michael D. Friedman's second edition of this stage history of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus adds an examination of twelve major theatrical productions and one film that appeared in the years 1989-2009. Friedman identifies four lines of descent in the recent performance history of the play: the stylised, realistic, darkly comic, and political approaches, which culminate in Julie Taymor's harrowing film Titus (1999). Aspects of Taymor's eclectic vision of ancient Rome under the grip of modern fascism were copied by several subsequent productions, making Titus the most characteristic, as well as