Orson Welles on Shakespeare : the W.P.A. and Mercury Theatre playscripts / edited with an introducti...
Orson Welles on Shakespeare : the W.P.A. and Mercury Theatre playscripts / edited with an introducti...
Orson Welles on Shakespeare : the W.P.A. and Mercury Theatre playscripts / edited with an introduction by Richard France.
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New York : Routledge, 2001.
Date
2001.
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Y792.09747/1
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English
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Physical content
p. cm.
Contents
Foreword / Simon Callow -- Macbeth -- Preface -- Production Credits and Cast -- Act One -- Act Two -- Act Three -- Notes to Macbeth -- Julius Caesar -- Preface -- Production Credits and Cast -- Playscript -- Notes to Julius Caesar -- Five Kings -- Preface -- Production Credits and Cast -- Act One --...
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Publisher
New York : Routledge, 2001.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2001.
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Summary
"Orson Welles's theatrical productions of Shakespearean plays for the W.P.A.'s Federal Theatre Project and Welles's own Mercury Theatre represent a unique blending of high art and the politicized popular culture of the 1930s. This volume is the only publication available of the fully annotated playscripts of these adaptations - the "Voodoo" Macbeth...
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Orson Welles on Shakespeare : the W.P.A. and Mercury Theatre playscripts / edited with an introduction by Richard France.
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Includes adaptations of Shakespeare's Macbeth and Julius Caesar, and Welles's Five kings, adapted from Shakespeare and based on Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
Includes bibliographical references (p. ).
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Y792.09747/1
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0415937264 (pbk.) :
9780415937269
0415937264
9780415937269(pbk.) :
0415937264(pbk.) :
9780415937269 (pbk.)
0415937264 (pbk.)
9780415937269 (pbk.) :
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792.09747109043
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991016249499702626
