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Rescripting Shakespeare: The Text, the Director, and Modern Productions

By Alan C. Dessen

Book information

Year
2002
ISBN
0521810299, 0521007984, 0511483554, 0511042159, 9780511042157, 9780511483554, 9780521007986, 9780521810296
LCC
PR3100 .D47 2002
Open Library ID
OL3569505M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1221022 bytes)
Pages
280\282
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Alan Dessen focuses on the playtexts used for staging Shakespeare's plays, from almost three hundred productions of the last twenty five years. Dessen examines the process of rescripting--when directors make cuts to streamline the playscript, save running time, etc., and rewriting--when more extensive changes are made. He assesses what is lost and gained by rescripting, and the demands of presenting to contemporary audiences words targeted at players, playgoers, and playhouses that no longer exist. The results are of interest to theatrical professionals and historians.

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