Screening the Royal Shakespeare Company

Screening the Royal Shakespeare Company
Title Screening the Royal Shakespeare Company PDF eBook
Author John Wyver
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 289
Release 2019-06-27
Genre Drama
ISBN 1350006602

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No theatre company has been involved in such a broad range of adaptations for television and cinema as the Royal Shakespeare Company. Starting with Richard III filmed in the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre before World War One, the RSC's accomplishments continue today with highly successful live cinema broadcasts. The Wars of the Roses (BBC, 1965), Peter Brook's film of King Lear (1971), Channel 4's epic version of Nicholas Nickleby (1982) and Hamlet with David Tennant (BBC, 2009) are among their most iconic adaptations. Many other RSC productions live on as extracts in documentaries, as archival recordings, in trailers and in other fragmentary forms. Screening the Royal Shakespeare Company explores this remarkable history of collaborations between stage and screen and considers key questions about adaptation that concern all those involved in theatre, film and television. John Wyver is a broadcasting historian and the producer of RSC Live from Stratford-upon-Avon, and is uniquely well-placed to provide a vivid account of the company's television and film productions. He contributes an award-winning practitioner's insight into screen adaptation's numerous challenges and rich potential.

The Whip

The Whip
Title The Whip PDF eBook
Author Juliet Gilkes Romero
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 154
Release 2020-02-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1786828669

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Winner of the 2020 Alfred Fagon Award. As the 19th Century dawns in London, politicians of all parties gather to abolish the slave trade once and for all. But the price of freedom turns out to be a multi-billion pound bailout for slave owners rather than those enslaved. As morality and cunning compete amongst men thirsty for power, two women navigate their way to the true seat of political influence, challenging members of parliament who dare deny them their say. In this provocative new play by Juliet Gilkes Romero, the personal collides with the political to ask, what is the right thing to do and how much must it cost?

Kunene and the King

Kunene and the King
Title Kunene and the King PDF eBook
Author John Kani
Publisher Jonathan Ball Publishers
Pages 90
Release 2021-04-09
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1776191331

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'What lies beneath the apparent simplicity of Kunene and the King is a lot of moral, political and existential depth. This is testimony to the brilliance of John Kani.' – EUSEBIUS McKAISER South Africa, 2019. Twenty-five years since the first post-apartheid democratic elections. Jack Morris is a celebrated classical actor who has just been given a career-defining role and a life-changing diagnosis. Lunga Kunene is a retired senior male nurse from Soweto now working for private patients. Besides their age, they appear not to have much in common. But a shared passion for Shakespeare soon ignites a 'rich, raw and shattering head-to-head' (The Times) as the duet from contrasting walks of life unpack the racial, political and social complexities of modern South Africa. Kunene and the King is a vital play that combines the magnificence of classic Shakespearean comedy, tragedy and history to reflect on a new yet deeply wounded society.

Love's Labour's Lost

Love's Labour's Lost
Title Love's Labour's Lost PDF eBook
Author William Shakespeare
Publisher Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Pages 160
Release 2018-04-23
Genre Fiction
ISBN

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Love's Labour's Lost is a wonderful comedy written by a genius English poet and playwright William Shakespeare. The heroes’ prototypes of the play are Shakespeare’s contemporaries: French King Henry of Navarre who ascended the throne named as Henry IV (known in a play as Ferdinand), his first wife Marguerite de Valois, and his closest companions by their own names Marshal Biron, Duke Longueville and Duke Dumaine. It is believed that Shakespeare used a historical fact as a plot for this play – the meeting of Catherine de Medicis and the King Henry of Navarre which aimed to resolve some political issues. The playwright applied his fantasy which added intrigue and humour to this fact.

Shakespeare on Screen: King Lear

Shakespeare on Screen: King Lear
Title Shakespeare on Screen: King Lear PDF eBook
Author Victoria Bladen
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 277
Release 2019-09-26
Genre Drama
ISBN 1108426921

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An up-to-date survey of Shakespeare's King Lear on screen and the aesthetic, social and political issues raised by screen versions.

Richard III

Richard III
Title Richard III PDF eBook
Author William Shakespeare
Publisher
Pages 200
Release 1891
Genre
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Shakespearean Rhetoric

Shakespearean Rhetoric
Title Shakespearean Rhetoric PDF eBook
Author Benet Brandreth
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 265
Release 2021-03-25
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1350088005

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Classical Rhetoric, the art of persuasion, formed the sum and substance of Shakespeare's education and was the basis of his understanding of the power of language and how it worked to move, delight and teach. Rhetoric, which seeks to explain the way that language works to influence others, provides a powerful, transformative tool for approaching text in performance. This book helps you understand the key concepts of rhetoric. It gives clear explanations, stripped of jargon, and examples of rhetorical technique in the plays. It also provides engaging, practical exercises to unlock character and to identify themes in the plays through the lens of rhetoric. Academically rigorous, based on more than a decade of practical experience in the use of rhetoric in drama at the highest level, it is an ideal companion for anyone engaging with Shakespeare in performance.