The Tempest

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The Arden Shakespeare, in association with the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, presents a new series of volumes on Shakespeare's plays in performance.

The series discusses and analyses the wide range of theatrical interpretation stimulated and provoked by the most frequently performed playas. Each volume explores the ways in which different directors, designeers and actors have interpreted and adapted an individual play in terms of narrative focus, themes and characters, scenery and costume. The focus is on productions at Stratford-upon-Avon from 1945 onwards, since the record of Shakespear performances at Stratford's theaters offers a wider, fuller and more various range of interpretation than is offered by any other theatre company. The volumes also set this record in a wider geographical and chronological context by means of a historical overview of earlier productions and of productions beyond Stratford.

Published in conjunction with the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, each volume features a wealth of photographs drawn from the archive of RSC performance materials held in the Trust's library at the Shakespeare Centre in Stratford.

Each volume also features cast-lists, prodcution credits, and performance dates for all of the productions covered. as well as an extensive list of the reviews cited for those productions.

Shakespeare at Stratford will surprise, inform and delight both students and scholars of Shakespeare and performance history and the general reader with an interest in theatre.

The Tempest is a strange and elusive play; which critics have interpreted in very different ways: as a drama of forgiveness and reconciliation, as an exploration of the limits of theatrical art, or as a play complicit with colonial exploitation. Prospero's island is a fearful yet enchanting place; a place suffused with music, and its storm, disappearing banquet and elaborate betrothal masque demand imaginative stagecraft. Stratford productions have steered their way through the play's complex, even contradictory potential, in fascinatingly varied fashion, and Daivd Lindley explores that variety both as evidence of the evolution of theatrical styles, and as a response to the changing critical fortunes of the play.

Language: English

Pages: 288

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Arden Shakespeare

Release: October 13, 2022

ISBN: 1903436737

ISBN 13: 9781903436738

The Tempest

David Lindley

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Language: English

Pages: 288

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