Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Category: Shakespeare Plays, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism
Age Group: 15+
Book Format: Paperback
From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's touching fable of loss and reunion. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview of Pericles in performance, takes a detailed look at specific productions, and recommends film versions. Included in this edition are interviews with three leading directors and an actor - Adrian Noble, Dominic Cooke, Adrian Jackson and Laura Rees - providing an illuminating insight into the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible. This edition also includes an essay on Shakespeare's career and Elizabethan theatre, and enables the reader to understand the play as it was originally intended - as living theatre to be enjoyed and performed.
Ideal for students, theatre-goers, actors and general readers, the RSC Shakespeare editions offer a fresh, accessible and contemporary approach to reading and rediscovering Shakespeare's works for the twenty-first century.
William Shakespeare and Edited By Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Introduction.- About the Text.- Key Facts.- Pericles.- Textual Notes.- Scene-by-Scene Analysis.- Pericles in Performance: the RSC and Beyond.- Four Centuries of Pericles: An Overview.- At the RSC.- The Director's Cut: interviews with directors Dominic Cooke, Adrian Jackson and Adrian Noble.- Playing Marina: interview with actor Laura Rees.- Shakespeare's Career in the Theatre.- Shakespeare's Works: a Chronology.- Further Reading and Viewing.- References.- Acknowledgements and Picture Credits
ERIC RASMUSSEN Professor of English at the University of Nevada, USA, and the Textual Editor of The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works. He is co-editor of the Norton Anthology of English Renaissance Drama and has edited volumes in both the Arden Shakespeare and Oxford World's Classics series. He is the General Textual Editor of the Internet Shakespeare Editions project - one of the most visited Shakespeare websites in the world. For over nine years he has written the annual review of editions and textual studies for the Shakespeare Survey.
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