White Ford: 'Tis Pity She's a Whore

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-137-00607-3
Verlag: Macmillan Education
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 0 - No protection

E-Book, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Ebook (PDF)

Reihe: Shakespeare Handbooks

'Tis Pity She's a Whore is one of the most controversial plays ever staged in the English theatre. In this illuminating Handbook, Martin White:• offers an in-depth, moment-by-moment analysis of the play, looking at how it might be performed on stage• provides vital contextual material on John Ford's social and literary influences• reconstructs the play's performances in Ford's own time and examines later stage, television and film productions• guides the reader through the often heated critical and theatrical responses to the dramatic work.

Zielgruppe

Lower undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

White, Martin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editors' Preface.- Preface.- The Text and Early Performances.- Commentary: The Play in Performance.- Sources, Intellectual and Cultural Contexts.- Key Productions and Performances.- The Play on Screen.- Critical Assessments.- Further Reading.- Index.

Über Autor(innen)

MARTIN WHITE Professor of Theatre at the University of Bristol, UK. He has directed many plays at Bristol and has worked as an advisor to the Globe reconstruction in London, and to the RSC. His previous publications include the volume on A Midsummer Night's Dream in the Shakespeare Handbooks series.