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Acting in Shakespeare: Singular sensations in Shakespeare and song
… was to determine if it was possible to take Shakespeare's text and, preserving the language, present it in a way which would make it more accessible to a modern audience. It was also important to maintain the appropriate acting style and technique that distinguishes classical acting.
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Shakespeare in China
Since Shakespeare was introduced to China at the beginning of the 20th Century, the Chinese have translated the English playwright's plays and performed them on the Chinese stage either in the form of spoken drama or the traditional Chinese opera. No matter which approach is chosen to perform the …
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Politeness in Shakespeare
… dyadic discourse. This claim is tested here for Shakespeare's use of Early Modern English in Hamiet, King Lear, Maebeth, and Otheilo. The comedies are used because. (i) dramatic texts provide the best information on colloquial speech of the period; (2) the psychological soliloquies in the …
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Documentary Film: Accidental Shakespeare
… Johnson, a theatre college student trying Shakespeare for the first time - as they relate to a process and community that is new to them.
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Chaucer, Shakespeare and Lucretia
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Anthologizing Shakespeare, 1593-1603
From 1599 onwards, Shakespeare’s works began to appear in printed anthologies. Over the following years, a number of volumes included passages from his poems and plays, presenting them alongside similar excerpts by his rivals and contemporaries. The practices of reading and commonplacing that lie …
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The Comic(s) Shakespeare: <i>Kill Shakespeare</i> and Audience Experience in Adaptation Studies
In this thesis, I expand upon Linda Hutcheon's use of the terms knowing and unknowing audiences that she briefly outlines in her book <i>A Theory of Adaptation</i>. Hutcheon suggests that when experiencing an adaptation, one may be a knowing audience member, someone that knows the adapted work, or …
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Shaping Shakespeare: How American Shakespeare Festivals Adapt Shakespeare’s Texts in the Twenty-First Century
<p>Shakespeare’s continued importance in American festival settings stems from adaptive and collaborative processes. In this study, adaptation refers to any reinterpretation of Shakespeare's works for contemporary contexts, while collaboration refers to the combined creative efforts among artists …
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Counsellors of Youth in Shakespeare
… the state of Kansas. |Interest in the dramas of Shakespeare grew out of a study of many of his plays. To determine the importance of counsellors in Shakespeare’s plays, it has been necessary to analyze the problems of the young, the adviser from whom they sought counsel, the type of advice given, …
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Performing Shakespeare in Contemporary Taiwan
… to Western models. For most theatres in Taiwan, Shakespeare has inevitably served as a model to be imitated and a touchstone of quality. Such Taiwanese Shakespeare performances prove to be much more than merely a combination of Shakespeare and Taiwan, constituting a new fusion which shows Taiwan …
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The Pedagogy of Shakespeare & Company
The Pedagogy of Shakespeare & Company examines in several ways the principles and practices of actor training at Shakespeare & Company of Lenox, Massachusetts. Chapter 1 is a narrative of my personal experience at the Month-long Intensive in Lenox, elaborating its multiple components. Chapter 2 …
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Shakespeare on South African television
… the analysis of the eight productions of Shakespeare that were produced for television by the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) between 1977 and 1988. The plays that were selected for production are Much Ado About Nothing (1977) Macbeth (1980) Twelfth Night (1981), A Midsummer …
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Looking for Richard e Shakespeare in love : Shakespeare pela ótica do cinema hollywoodiano pós-modernista
… interdisciplinar que os filmes cinematográficos Shakespeare in Love (John Madden, 1998) e Looking for Richard (Al Pacino,1996) estabelecem em relação ao conjunto da obra de William Shakespeare. A análise dos filmes demonstra que, tanto pela estruturação de suas narrativas quanto por suas posturas …
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Henry Fuseli's contributions to the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery : their place in the history of Shakespeare illustration
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Art,
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The Role of Women in the Canonisation of Shakespeare: From Elizabethan Theatre to the Shakespeare Jubilee
… at an early stage in the canonisation of William Shakespeare. Shakespeare, one of the popular playwrights in English Renaissance theatre, became increasingly famous during the first half of the eighteenth century, and the Shakespeare Jubilee in 1769 marked the climax of the popularisation of his …
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