Hartley Julius Caesar

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-5261-0247-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

Reihe: Shakespeare in Performance

Presents a performance history of a controversial play, moving from its 1599 opening all the way into the new millennium with particular emphasis on its twentieth- and twenty-first-century incarnations on stage and screen

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hartley, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: political theatre
1. “So are they all, all honourable men”: Julius Caesar before the Second World War
2. The rise of European Fascism: Welles at the Mercury Theater
3. (Un) American identities: Mankiewicz (1953)
4. Wise saws and modern(ist) instances: Anderson, Barton and Nunn
5. Glories past: the minor films
6. The Romans in Britain. Caesar under Thatcher
7. Accents yet unknown: Global Caesars
8. ‘Growing on the South’: Georgia Shakespeare 2001 and 2009
9. A strange disposed time: Caesar at the Millenium
Appendix: major cast and company staff of select twentieth century productions
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hartley Andrew:
Andrew James Hartley is Robinson Distinguished Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of North Carolina at CharlotteAndrew James Hartley is Robinson Distinguished Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte