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Rescripting Shakespeare : = the text, the director, and modern productions /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Rescripting Shakespeare :/ Alan C. Dessen.
Reminder of title:	the text, the director, and modern productions /
Author:	Dessen, Alan C.,
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 268 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Theater - Production and direction - 20th century. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511483554
ISBN:	9780511483554 (ebook)

Rescripting Shakespeare : = the text, the director, and modern productions /
Dessen, Alan C.,1935-

Rescripting Shakespeare :the text, the director, and modern productions /Alan C. Dessen. - 1 online resource (xi, 268 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

"Let it be hid": price tags, trade-offs, and economies -- Rescripting Shakespeare's contemporaries -- Adjustments and improvements -- Inserting an intermission/interval -- What's in an ending? : rescripting final scenes -- Rescripting stage directions and actions -- Compressing Henry VI -- The tamings of the shrews : rescripting the First Folio -- The editor as rescripter -- Conclusion : what's not here.

Building on almost 300 productions from the last 25 years, this 2002 book focuses on the playtexts used when directors stage Shakespeare's plays: the words spoken, the scenes omitted or transposed, and the many other adjustments that must be made. Directors rescript to streamline the playscript and save running time, to eliminate obscurity, conserve on personnel, and occasionally cancel out passages that might not fit their 'concept'. They rewright when they make more extensive changes, moving closer to the role of playwrights, as when the three parts of Henry VI are compressed into two plays. Alan Dessen analyzes what such choices might exclude or preclude, and explains the exigencies faced by actors and directors in placing before today's audiences words targeted at players, playgoers, and playhouses that no longer exist. The results are of interest and importance as much to theatrical professionals as to theatre historians and students.

ISBN: 9780511483554 (ebook)Subjects--Personal Names:

801322
Shakespeare, William,
1564-1616--Literary style.Subjects--Topical Terms:

556221
Theater
--Production and direction--20th century.

LC Class. No.: PR3100 / .D47 2002

Dewey Class. No.: 792.9/5

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