Shakespeare on Theatre

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Series: ...On Theatre
Imprint: Nick Hern Books
Paperback, 232 pages ISBN: 9781848420793Publication Date:
17 May 2012
Size: 216mm x 138mm£10.99 £8.79You save £2.20 (20%)
Ebook, 232 pages ISBN: 9781788500098Publication Date:
5 Apr 2018
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Shakespeare on Theatre

By William Shakespeare Compiled by Nick de Somogyi

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A unique collection of Shakespeare's every reflection on the theatre, offering fascinating insights into the man, his work, and the world of the Jacobean stage.

Shakespeare was a man of the theatre to his core, so it is no surprise that he repeatedly contemplated the nuts and bolts of his craft in his plays and poems.

Shakespeare scholar Nick de Somogyi here draws together all the cherishable set pieces – including ‘All the world’s a stage,’ Hamlet’s encounters with the Players, and Bottom’s amateur theatricals – along with many other oblique but no less revealing glances, and further insights into theatre practice by Shakespeare’s contemporaries and rivals.

De Somogyi’s informed commentary takes us through the entire process of a play’s theatrical production, from its casting and auditions, via rehearsals, costumes, and props, to its premiere and audience reception.

Shakespeare on Theatre eavesdrops on the urgently whispered noises-off in the ‘tiring-house’ and inhales the heady aroma of the Globe’s first audiences.

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'Refreshing... a lucid and fascinating overview'

Times Literary Supplement

'This remarkable little book... incredibly well-informed... nothing, it seems, is left out'

ReviewsGate.com

'This book is more than a collection of extended quotations. Somogyi's detailed, linking analysis and commentary turns it into quite an original book about Shakespeare's words, working method and contemporary context'

The Stage

'Shakespeare on Theatre gives [de Somogyi] the opportunity to teach us about Shakespeare’s experience of drama itself, and his thoughts about it, a major implicit subject in the plays, and to bring together many scattered references. He does this with real passion for the plays as both text and performance… He brilliantly links passages from the plays with commentary and quotes wonderful passages (quite unknown to me before) from other Jacobean writers.

De Somogyi’s lexical relish and delightfully original wit are obvious throughout; he makes those startling, even absurd, but always apt comparisons to modern life and to the cinema that are often to be enjoyed in his introductions to the Shakespeare Folio editions.'

Dr Jan Piggott FSA, former Head of English and Keeper of Archives at Dulwich College -

Performing rights not held by Nick Hern Books

Series: ...On Theatre
Imprint: Nick Hern Books
Paperback,232 pages ISBN: 9781848420793Publication Date:
17 May 2012
Size: 216mm x 138mm£10.99 £8.79You save £2.20 (20%)
Ebook,232 pages ISBN: 9781788500098Publication Date:
5 Apr 2018
£10.99 £8.79You save £2.20 (20%)

Also by William Shakespeare:

As You Like It
Much Ado About Nothing
Henry IV Part I
The Winter's Tale
Richard III
Romeo and Juliet
Macbeth
Hamlet
The Tempest
Cardenio
Richard II
Macbeth
Thomas More
Othello
Othello
Edward III
Player Kings
Queen Margaret
The Winter's Tale
Henry IV Part II
Julius Caesar
All's Well That Ends Well
Much Ado About Nothing
Twelfth Night
Richard III
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Henry V
Measure for Measure
Romeo and Juliet
King Lear

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Also by Nick de Somogyi:

Romeo and Juliet
Othello
Julius Caesar
Hamlet
Henry IV Part II
King Lear
As You Like It
Richard III
Much Ado About Nothing
Henry V
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Measure for Measure
Macbeth
Twelfth Night
Henry IV Part I
All's Well That Ends Well
The Tempest
Richard II
The Winter's Tale

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