Bøger af John Russell Brown

Includes The Jacobean Shakespeare, Some Observations On The Construction Of The Tragedies By Maynard Mack; Ben Jonson And Jacobean Stagecraft By William A. Armstrong; Citizen Comedy And Domestic Drama By Arthur Brown; English Folly And Italian Vice, The Moral Landscape Of John Marston By G. K. Hunter; The World's Proportion, Jonson's Dramatic Poetry In Sejanus And Catiline By Geoffrey Hill; The Tempest On The Stage By David William; The Danger Not The Death, The Art Of John Fletcher By Philip Edwards; Middleton's Experiments With Comedy And Judgment By R. B. Mulryne; The White Devil And The Duchess Of Malfi By J. R. Mulryne; Chapman's Tragedies By Peter Ure.

Contributing Authors Include R. A. Foakes, Norman Sanders, Harold Brooks And Others.

Shows how to read a play-text and to see and hear its potential for performance. This work engages its readers in the realities of the theatre. It provides practical advice for understanding how theatre works and how plays come alive in performance. It also includes suggestions for student essays and class discussions.

First published in 1957. This edition reprints the second edition of 1962. The second edition of this book contains an extensive new chapter on Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale and The Tempest.

The commentary at the centre of this groundbreaking introduction alerts the reader to what happens on stage during a performance by showing what the text requires from actors and the choices they are offered.

This guide helps students navigate A.C. Bradley's classic text, while providing an important commentary on the value of Bradley's approach and how it can be adapted to present-day interests. John Russell Brown highlights the advantages of understanding Bradley's methods and provides major insights for any student of Shakespeare.

In his latest book, John Russell Brown offers a new and revealing way of reading and studying Shakespeare's plays, focusing on what a play does for an audience, as well as what its text says.

Written for performance, Shakespeare's plays are very different texts from any intended for a reader with book in hand and they require a different kind of attention.

This comprehensive and well-informed study is also a work of detection and reappraisal. No theory of tragedy emerges, but rather an increasing ability to maintain and communicate a clear-eyed perception of a changing and often violent society in which action is stronger than words or conscious intention.

Assuming no prior knowledge of theatre practice and offering practical advice for further investigations, Shakespeare Dancing is written for all who study Shakespeare's work in search of a fuller understanding, or as a preparation for performance.

John Russell Brown is arguably the most influential scholar in the field of Shakespeare in performance. This collection brings together and makes accessible his most important writings across the past half-century or so. Ranging across space, words, audiences, directors and themes, the book maps John Russell Brown's search for a fuller understanding of Shakespeare'splays in performance. New introductory notes for each chapter give a fascinating insight into his critical and scholarly journey. Together the essays provide an authoritative and engaging account of how to study Shakespeare's plays as texts for performance. Drawing readers into a wide variety of approaches and debates, this book will be important and provocative reading for anyone studying Shakespeare or staging one of his plays.

An introductory guide to King Lear in performance offering a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commentary, contextual documents, a brief history of the text and first performances, case studies of key productions, a survey of film and TV adaptations, a sampling of critical opinion and annotated further reading.

First published in 1957. This edition reprints the second edition of 1962. The second edition of this book contains an extensive new chapter on Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winters Tale and The Tempest.

John Russell Brown demonstrates just how much is in Shakespeare''s texts; how the language is awakened colored emphasized sensualized and extended in performance. Shakespeare''s intended readers were his collaborators not his commentators. Brown invites all Shakespeare lovers to seek their insights in Shakespeare''s natural habitat: the stage.

35 scenes from Shakespeare are presented in newly-edited texts with notes which clarify meanings topical references puns ambiguities etc. A brief description of characters and situation prefaces each scene and is followed by a commentary which discusses its major acting challenges and opportunities. Each scene has been chosen for its independent life requiring only the simplest of stage properties and the barest of spaces.

In his latest book, the author considers current Shakespearian productions in Europe and America, in the light of his insights into Asian theatre, arguing that our understanding of Shakespeare is limited by the kinds of theatre we have seen.

A revised edition of the casebook first published in 1968, this book contains new criticisms and reviews of new productions. It is an anthology of basic studies of Shakespeare's last tragedy.