How to use this book Introduction The Plays The False Turk – in Twelve Minutes: One-act curtain raisers, seventeenth-century style Cast and production requirements Introduction Scenario Text Home from the Wars: Early Commedia dell’Arte sketch, in the style of Angelo Beolco Cast and production requirements Introduction Scenario Text Pantalone Goes A-Wooing: One-act play based on …
Foreword Raymond Williams Preface Preface to Second Edition Behind the Clichés of Contemporary Theatre Towards a Working-Class Theatre Mediating Contemporary Reality Theatre Has Begun to Take Place Theatre as Political Forum The Challenge of Cinema and Television Appendix: 7:84 Theatre Company
Production Note Original Casts His Dark Materials Part One Part Two Afterword Nicholas Wright
Introduction Gaynor Macfarlane Eighteenth-Century German Drama and Sturm und Drang Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) Themes in Mary Stuart Schiller’s Dramatic Theory Performance History Mary Stuart
Shakespeare Alive! Richard Eyre Introduction The Study and the Stage Shakespeare’s Stagecraft The Convention of Place The Speaking of the Verse The Boy-Actress The Soliloquy Costume The Integrity of the Text King Lear The Main Lines of Construction The Method of the Dialogue The Characters and Their Interplay Lear Goneril, Regan and Cordelia Kent The …
Introduction Mike Poulton Notes on Characters Hilary Mantel Thomas Cromwell Elizabeth Cromwell Cardinal Archbishop Thomas Wolsey King Henry VIII Anne Boleyn Katherine of Aragon Princess Mary Stephen Gardiner William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer, Incoming Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas More Rafe Sadler Harry Percy Christophe Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk Charles Brandon, Duke of …
Author’s Note Lucy Kirkwood
These plays can be seen or read in either order
Preface Michael Billington Twelfth Night: a Stage History Approaches to Twelfth Night What Kind of Play? Seasons, Months and Days What is Illyria? A Displaced Englishness? Naturalism and Its Limits Emergence of the Themes Topical References – and Rhythms The Order of the Scenes The ‘Pressure Points’ of a Play The Choice of Period The …
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