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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Royal Shakespeare Company"”.
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Memorial Reconstructions: Christopher Marlowe, Cultural Memory, and the Royal Shakespeare Company
… aspects of that myth: when compared to Shakespeare, Marlowe is repeatedly figured as an atheist, bohemian, ""queer,"" and foreign figure. Chapter Two explores the permanent, physical memorials to Marlowe and contrasts these with Shakespearean monuments to demonstrate that the …
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Such a Deal of Wonder: Structures of Feeling and Performances of The Winter's Tale from 1981 to 2002
… written text and then reveal how the theatrical company views particular issues within their own time period. This study looks at productions of The Winter's Tale between 1981 and 2002 at the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company. Using numerous versions of this play not only …
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English productions of 'Measure for Measure' on stage and screen : the play's indeterminacy and the authority of performance
… that the ‘work’ is always absent, and that ‘Shakespeare’ and the words in the text are not the most important sources of meaning. There are many crucial gaps in the text that performances need to fill. The Introduction analyses space, audience, actor and scenography as important factors which …
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Revolting Women, Roaring Girls and Bloody Men: The RSC in Stratford, 2014
The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) states that its purpose is to produce “an inspirational artistic programme each year, setting Shakespeare in context, alongside the work of his contemporaries and today’s writers” (2016, online). This purpose has remained largely unchanged since the company's …
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The Strange and the Familiar: Shakespeare as a Point of Anglo-Germanic Cultural Exchange
… the process by which the works of William Shakespeare have functioned as both, specifically in England and Germany over a period of two hundred years, from the late eighteenth century to the late twentieth. After a difficult initiation into the German-speaking world and heavy resistance …
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Deconstructing Jan Kott's contemporary Shakespeare: an investigation of the criticisms of Alan Sinfield and Jonathan Dollimore
… Polish literary and theatre critic, author of Shakespeare Our Contemporary (1964). I seek to challenge the argument proposed by Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield, who have compared Kott and E.M.W. Tillyard, a literary critic generally associated with traditional Shakespeare criticism. …
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Engaging and Evading the Bard: Shakespeare, Nationalism, and British Theatrical Modernism, 1900-1964
… modernism and its ambivalent relationship to Shakespeare. The conventional narrative of early twentieth-century British theater and drama situates their rise within the broad European context of Continental artistic developments, such as the rise of Henrik Ibsen. Examining the work of George …
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Shakespeare in Present-Day British Theatre: Where Text Meets Practice
Thesis Abstract Shakespeare in Present-Day British Theatre: Where Text Meets Practice Tobias Andrew Giles Wright An actor today, beginning rehearsals for a Shakespeare play, is faced with the challenge of diachronically assigning character-based acting techniques to a rich network of dramatic …