Free Shakespeare (Shakespeare editions)

by JohnRussellBrown (Author)

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  Paperback
  1998

  $4.89

  This expanded edition is a tool to liberate the works of Shakespeare from directors and academics who seek to impose their ideas upon the plays. It seeks to empower actors and readers to approach the plays freshly and boldly armed with the many different interpretations inherent in his plays. The author emphasizes the actor as the primary agent in communicating Shakespeare as exemplified today by actors such as Kenneth Branagh and Al Pacino. Recognized as a benchmark for the understanding of Shakespearean performance in the 20th Century, a new chapter explores the technological and funding challenges facing Shakespearean production in the next millenium.