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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Named Person: | William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Sidney Homan |
ISBN: | 0821415506 9780821415504 |
OCLC Number: | 53285186 |
Description: | xiii, 152 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Bridging the gap between text and performance -- Creating Lear onstage -- Cutting Shakespeare -- A director's concept for The comedy of errors -- Interacting with the actors : The merchant of Venice, King Lear, and Hamlet -- Set design and theatrical presence in Julius Caesar -- Adapting A midsummer night's dream for the cast, producer, and theater -- A mirror for staging Hamlet : Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead -- "Why, Sir, is Shakespeare eternal?" -- Never too young, never too old. |
Responsibility: | Sidney Homan. |
Abstract:
An impossible question from a Chinese actor-"Why is Shakespeare eternal?"-drove Sidney Homan after fifty years in the theater to ponder just what makes Shakespeare...well, Shakespeare.
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"Sidney Homan has the unusual gift for a literary critic of being a good story-teller, and so the moments of rehearsing and trying to find how a complicated text can work on stage come through with vividness and point...Any Shakespearean and any intellectually curious actor or director would find substantial value and interest in Directing Shakespeare." -- Robert Pierce * author of Shakespeare's History Plays * Read more...

