Pericles -Rasmussen, Eric,Bate, Jonathan,William Shakespeare Humour Book

Author: Rasmussen, Eric,Bate, Jonathan,William Shakespeare
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

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
JONATHAN BATE Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature, University of Warwick, UK, and the editor of The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works. He has held visiting posts at Harvard, Yale and UCLA and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Fellow of the British Academy, an Honorary Fellow of St Catherine's College, Cambridge, and a Governor and Board member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. A prominent critic, award-winning biographer and broadcaster, he is the author of several books on Shakespeare, including The Genius of Shakespeare (Picador), which was praised by Sir Peter Hall, founder of the RSC, as 'the best modern book on Shakespeare.' In June 2006 he was awarded a CBE by HM The Queen 'for services to Higher Education'.
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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