Hamlet

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Manchester University Press, 1995 - 261 páginas
In this illuminating study, Anthony Dawson surveys the stage history of Hamlet from its appearance in Shakespeare’s time to the efflorescence of new and challenging productions in our own. He vividly re-creates more than a dozen representative performances across three centuries. Bringing together theatre history and the interests of cultural criticism and performance theory, Dawson traces the Anglo-American acting tradition and provides a succinct account of the interpretative problems associated with texts, character, design, and the production of meaning. The final chapters extend the analysis to a number of film versions, notably those of Olivier, Kozintsev and Zeffirelli, as well as to several important European stage productions.

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Performing Hamlets meanings
1
Hamlet on stage 16001900
23
old ways meet the new stagecraft
67
Gielgud and Olivier in the 1930s
97
1948 and 1965
119
Royal Shakespeare and Royal Court in 1980
147
Olivier and Kozintsev
170
Zeffirelli and the BBC
197
Translations
224
Notes
242
Appendix
247
Bibliography
252
Index
257
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Anthony B. Dawson is Professor of English and Theatre at the University of British Columbia

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