Rescripting Shakespeare : the text, the director, and modern productions / Alan C. Dessen.
Rescripting Shakespeare : the text, the director, and modern productions / Alan C. Dessen.
Rescripting Shakespeare : the text, the director, and modern productions / Alan C. Dessen.
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Date
2002.
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Y792.95/27
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English
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xi, 268 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. "Let it be hid": price tags, trade-offs, and economies -- 2. Rescripting Shakespeare's contemporaries -- 3. Adjustments and improvements -- 4. Inserting an intermission/interval -- 5. What's in an ending? Rescripting final scenes -- 6. Rescripting stage directions and actions -- 7. Compressing He...
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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England
Date Published
2002.
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Summary
Rescripting can yield practical, narrative, and conceptual gains but can also involve losses or diminutions, so that Dessen calls attention to price tags and trade-offs, both the pluses and minuses of a director's rescripting or rewrighting. He analyzes what such choices might exclude or preclude and explains the exigencies faced by actors and dire...
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Rescripting Shakespeare : the text, the director, and modern productions / Alan C. Dessen.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Y792.95/27
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74VvybvRqD5O
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvybvRqD5O
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0521810299
9780521810296 (hbk.)
0521810299 (hbk.)
9780521007986 (pbk.)
0521007984 (pbk.)
9780521810296
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792.95
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991016220339702626
