As You Like it by Robert Shaughnessy (English) Paperback Book

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A detailed account of the performance history of As You Like It through the modern period, focusing on landmark stage and film productions.

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This book examines the modern performance history of one of Shakespeare's best-loved and most enduring comedies, and one that has given opportunities for generations of theatre-makers and theatre-goers to explore the pleasures of pastoral, gender masquerade and sexual ambiguity. Powered by Shakespeare's greatest female comic role, the play invites us into a deeply English woodland that has also been richly imagined as a space of dreams. The study retrieves the untold stories of stage productions in Britain, France and Germany, which include Royal Shakespeare Company productions starring Vanessa Redgrave, Eileen Atkins and Juliet Stevenson, the ground-breaking all-male productions at the National Theatre in 1967 and by Cheek by Jowl in 1992, and the versions directed by Jacques Copeau in Paris in 1934, and by Peter Stein in Berlin in 1977. It also addresses the four major screen versions of the play, ranging from Paul Czinner's 1936 film to Kenneth Branagh's seventy years later. -- .

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As you like it examines the modern performance history of one of Shakespeare's best-loved and most enduring comedies, and one that has given opportunities for generations of theatre-makers and theatre-goers to explore the pleasures of pastoral, gender masquerade and sexual ambiguity. Powered by Shakespeare's greatest female comic role, the play invites us into a deeply English woodland that has also been imagined as a space of dreams. Beginning with the situation of the play in the context of early modern rehearsal and theatre practice, the book's seven chapters successively examine the rich interplay between performance histories, changing relations with the natural world, and gender politics. Drawing upon extensive original archival research, the study retrieves the backstage stories of stage productions in Britain, France and Germany, which include Royal Shakespeare Company productions starring Vanessa Redgrave (1961), Eileen Atkins (1973) and Juliet Stevenson (1985), the ground-breaking all-male productions at the National Theatre in 1967 and by Cheek by Jowl in 1992, and the versions directed by Jacques Copeau in Paris in 1934, and by Peter Stein in Berlin in 1977. It also addresses the four major screen versions of the play: Paul Czinner's 1936 film, starring Elisabeth Bergner and Laurence Olivier; the 1978 BBC/Time-Life Television Shakespeare version; Christine Edzard's 1992 film set in contemporary London, and Kenneth Branagh's orientalised fantasy version of 2006. The final chapter offers a personal account of a performance of As You Like It witnessed at Shakespeare's Globe at the end of the summer of 2015: more than an open-air encounter with a play in a setting contrived to re-imagine its place and moment of origin, it provides the book's final word on a performance history that is stranger and more eventful than it seems. The book will be of interest to scholars, teachers, students and lovers of Shakespeare, and to theatre-goers and theatre-makers.

Author Biography

Robert Shaughnessy is Professor of Theatre at Guildford School of Acting, University of Surrey.

Table of Contents

Introduction: this strange, eventful history 1 Play, parts and players 2 Hunting for Arden in Warwickshire 3 Materials of performance: denim and silk 4 Between France and Germany 5 At all points like a man 6 Woeful pageants 7 As we like it Appendix: Major actors and staff for productions discussed in this volume Index

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This book examines the modern performance history of one of Shakespeare's best-loved and most enduring comedies, and one that has given opportunities for generations of theatre-makers and theatre-goers to explore the pleasures of pastoral, gender masquerade and sexual ambiguity. Powered by Shakespeare's greatest female comic role, the play invites us into a deeply English woodland that has also been richly imagined as a space of dreams. The study retrieves the untold stories of stage productions in Britain, France and Germany, which include Royal Shakespeare Company productions starring Vanessa Redgrave, Eileen Atkins and Juliet Stevenson, the ground-breaking all-male productions at the National Theatre in 1967 and by Cheek by Jowl in 1992, and the versions directed by Jacques Copeau in Paris in 1934, and by Peter Stein in Berlin in 1977. It also addresses the four major screen versions of the play, ranging from Paul Czinner's 1936 film to Kenneth Branagh's seventy years later. -- .

Details ISBN152614350X Author Robert Shaughnessy Pages 240 Publisher Manchester University Press Year 2019 ISBN-10 152614350X ISBN-13 9781526143501 Format Paperback Imprint Manchester University Press Place of Publication Manchester Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 822.33 Publication Date 2019-09-13 Language English UK Release Date 2019-09-13 NZ Release Date 2019-09-13 Illustrations 9 black & white illustrations Series Shakespeare in Performance Audience Further / Higher Education AU Release Date 2019-09-12 We've got this

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