Harley Granville Barker

Prefaces to Shakespeare: King Lear

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 …

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Prefaces to Shakespeare: Coriolanus

Introduction   Richard Eyre Introduction   Harley Granville Barker 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 Coriolanus The Characters Caius Marcius Volumnia Aufidius Menenius The Tribunes The Actions of the Play The Volscians Volumnia and Virgilia The War …

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Prefaces to Shakespeare: Hamlet

Introduction   Richard Eyre Introduction   Harley Granville Barker 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 Hamlet The Nature of the Play The Genius of the Workshop The Development of Hamlet The Nature of the Action The Five …

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