Troilus and Cressida (The RSC Shakespeare) - Tapa blanda

Rasmussen, Eric

 
9780230272262: Troilus and Cressida (The RSC Shakespeare)
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ISBN 10: 0230272266 ISBN 13: 9780230272262
Editorial: Red Globe Press, 2010

Sinopsis

From the Royal Shakespeare Company – a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's great tragedy of love and war. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview of Troilus and Cressida in performance, takes a detailed look at specific productions, and recommends film versions. Included in this edition are interviews with two leading directors – Trevor Nunn and Michael Boyd – 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.

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Acerca de los autores

Eric Rasmussen is a Professor and Chair of the English department at the University of Nevada, Reno, USA.

JONATHAN BATE is Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature, University of Warwick, UK.

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From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a fresh new edition of Shakespeare's great tragedy of love and war

THIS EDITION INCLUDES:
- An illuminating introduction to Troilus and Cressida by award-winning scholar Jonathan Bate
- The play - with clear and authoritative explanatory notes on each page
- A helpful scene-by-scene analysis and key facts about the play
- An introduction to Shakespeare's career and the Elizabethan theatre
- A rich exploration of approaches to staging the play featuring photographs of key productions

The most enjoyable way to understand a Shakespeare play is to see it or participate in it. This unique edition presents a historical overview of Troilus and Cressida in performance, recommends film versions, takes a detailed look at specific productions and includes interviews with two leading directors - Trevor Nunn and Michael Boyd - so that we may get a sense of the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible, a variety that gives Shakespeare his unique capacity to be reinvented and made 'our contemporary' four centuries after his death.

Ideal for students, theatre-goers, actors and general readers, the RSC Shakespeare plays offer an accessible and contemporary approach to reading and rediscovering Shakespeare's works for the twenty-first century.

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Editorial
Red Globe Press
Año de publicación
2010
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0230272266
ISBN 13 
9780230272262
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
232
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