Hamlet

Description

Links acting traditions with cultural milieu. No other book on Hamlet on the stage covers as much theoretical ground. Covers a number of foreign productions and pays much attention to the role of scenography .

List of Plates

Series editor’s preface

Acknowledgements

1. Performing Hamlet’s meanings

2. Hamlet on stage 1600-1900

3. The 1920s: old ways meet new stagecraft

4. Gielgud and Olivier in the 1930s

5. Post-war Hamlets at Stratford-upon-Avon: 1948 and 1965

6. Royal Shakespeare and Royal Court in 1980

7. Hamlet at the movies: Olivier and Kozintsev

8. Through the looking glass: Zeffirelli and the BBC

9. Translations

Notes

Appendix
Bibliography

Index

Anthony B. Dawson is Professor of English and Theatre at the University of British Columbia

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