Foreword Trevor Nunn Preface Part One: Objective Things The Two Traditions: Elizabethan and Modern Acting Using the Verse: Heightened and Naturalistic Verse Language and Character: Making the Words One’s Own Using the Prose: Why does Shakespeare use Prose? Set Speeches and Soliloquies: Taking the Audience with You Using the Sonnets: Going over Some Old Ground …
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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Full subtitle: “An Entertainment and about the Kings and Queens of England “Music, Poetry, Speeches, Letters and other Writings from the Chronicles, from Plays, and in the Monarch’s own words—also Music concerning them and by them “Devised by John Barton”
Cast of original 1961 production at the Aldwych Theatre, and other RSC company members who have taken part subsequently The Readers [Note on casting A, B, C and D] The Music: “A Bass, a Baritone, a Tenor, and an Accompanist who can play both the harpsichord and the piano.” Arrangement of the Stage Staging Lighting …