Staging Shakespeare's Late Plays

by Roger Warren

Overview

The work of an acclaimed critic and director, this book breaks new ground by describing how the rehearsal process highlights the principal theatrical issues of Shakespeare's late plays: Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest. Drawing on his extensive experience with the rehearsal and performance at Stratford, Ontario in 1986, and at the National Theatre in 1988, Warren demonstrates how rehearsal creates extreme contrasts of mood and action, places intense personal crises in a wider political framework, and inspires spiritual journeys in the actors. Addressing many aspects of production—acting, direction, design, lighting, music, and audience response—this work will be important to all those involved with Shakespearean drama and its performance.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198128779
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	12/06/1990
Pages:	260
Product dimensions:	5.75(w) x 8.81(h) x 0.81(d)

Table of Contents

	List of Illustrations	ix
	Note on the Text	xi
	Introduction	1
1.	Contexts and Beginnings	5
2.	Spiritual Journeys: Cymbeline	25
3.	A Jealous Tyrant: The Winter's Tale	95
4.	Rough Magic and Heavenly Music: The Tempest	158
5.	Textual and Theatrical Issues: Pericles	208
	Epilogue	239
	Index	245