Description
| Product ID: | 9780230217911 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | The RSC Shakespeare |
| Title: | Love's Labour's Lost |
| Authors: | Author: Eric Rasmussen, Jonathan Bate |
| Page Count: | 192 |
| Subjects: | Classic and pre-20th century plays, Shakespeare plays, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Shakespeare studies & criticism, English |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's dazzling comedy. From the Royal Shakespeare Company – a fresh new edition of Shakespeare''s dazzling comedy. This book includes: * An introduction to Love''s Labour''s Lost by award-winning scholar Jonathan Bate * The play – with clear explanatory notes on each page * A scene-by-scene analysis * An introduction to Shakespeare''s career and the Elizabethan theatre * A rich exploration of approaches to staging the play The most enjoyable way to understand a Shakespeare play is to see it or participate in it. This book presents a historical overview of Love''s Labour''s Lost in performance, recommends film versions, takes a detailed look at specific productions and includes interviews with three leading Directors – Terry Hands, Liz Shipman and Gregory Doran– so that we may get a sense of the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible - a variety that gives Shakespeare his unique capacity to be reinvented and made ''our contemporary'' four centuries after his death. www.rscshakespeare.co.uk |
| Imprint Name: | Red Globe Press |
| Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2008-09-05 |
