Twelfth Night: Shakespeare in Production
Autor William Shakespeare Editat de Elizabeth Schaferen Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 iun 2009
SERIA Collins Classroom Classics aduce o perspectivă proaspătă asupra textelor canonice, iar acest volum, Twelfth Night, nu face excepție. Observăm cum această ediție reușește să transforme o piesă clasică de secol XVII într-un instrument de învățare adaptat nevoilor elevilor și studenților de astăzi. Ne-a atras atenția în mod deosebit modul în care textul original al lui William Shakespeare este încadrat de un aparat critic solid, care nu se rezumă doar la glosar, ci plonjează adânc în rădăcinile culturale ale epocii.
Structura volumului este una progresivă: după o introducere care stabilește coordonatele istorice, piesa este prezentată integral, fiind urmată de o secțiune fascinantă de „Contexte Culturale”. Aici, cititorii pot explora eseuri despre rolul muzicii în perioada elisabetană sau despre semnificația sărbătorii de a „Douăsprezecea Noapte”. Considerăm că această abordare este esențială pentru tinerii cititori care doresc să înțeleagă nu doar ce se întâmplă în comedie, ci și de ce anumite teme, precum travestiul sau identitatea fluidă, erau atât de relevante.
Comparativ cu alte lucrări ale autorului, cum ar fi The Tempest sau Much Ado About Nothing, această operă se distinge prin echilibrul fin între melancolie și farsă. Părinții care au citit cu plăcere Twelfth Night, Or, What You Will (ediția cu note de la World's Leading Center) vor aprecia și această versiune pentru modul în care clarifică limbajul arhaic prin note de subsol accesibile, fără a întrerupe ritmul lecturii. Este o resursă valoroasă care demonstrează că William Shakespeare rămâne actual prin explorarea onestă a naturii umane.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780521825344
ISBN-10: 0521825342
Pagini: 300
Ilustrații: 12 b/w illus.
Dimensiuni: 157 x 235 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Shakespeare in Production
Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0521825342
Pagini: 300
Ilustrații: 12 b/w illus.
Dimensiuni: 157 x 235 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Shakespeare in Production
Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom
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De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm această ediție părinților care doresc să le ofere adolescenților o introducere prietenoasă în literatura engleză clasică. Dincolo de textul piesei, cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a istoriei și culturii britanice prin eseurile incluse. Este o alegere excelentă pentru pregătirea examenelor sau pentru dezvoltarea unui vocabular elevat în limba engleză, transformând o lectură școlară într-o experiență de descoperire culturală.
Despre autor
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), supranumit „Bardul din Avon”, este considerat cel mai mare scriitor de limbă engleză și cel mai influent dramaturg al lumii. Opera sa vastă cuprinde 38 de piese de teatru și 154 de sonete, fiind tradusă în toate limbile moderne majore. Cariera sa de succes în Londra, ca actor și acționar al companiei Lord Chamberlain's Men, i-a permis să exploreze o gamă largă de genuri, de la comedii rafinate la tragedii profunde precum Hamlet sau Macbeth. Twelfth Night aparține perioadei sale de maturitate artistică în genul comediei, reflectând geniul său în crearea unor personaje complexe și a unor intrigi pline de spirit.
Descriere scurtă
For four centuries Twelfth Night has inspired theatre directors and performers: some have found class war; some have seen Malvolio as a tragic hero; some have found a passive Viola and others have found an action woman. Whether a production's emphasis is on gender bending, festivity, or trying to reinvent Shakespeare as Chekhov, the sheer variety of Twelfth Nights on offer over the centuries attests to the play's power as a stimulus to theatrical creativity. The dazzling range of the Twelfth Nights considered here includes the productively wayward as well as the conventionally respectable, productions which play to the contemporary market as well as those that seek to flout tradition. This indispensable stage history covers changing fashions in the fortunes of Twelfth Night, and includes a survey of a wide variety of theatrical interpretations of the play in the English-speaking world.
Cuprins
List of productions; Introduction; List of characters; Twelfth Night and commentary; Appendix: adaptations.
Descriere
An indispensable stage history of Shakespeare's perennially popular Twelfth Night, from its first performance to the present day.
Textul de pe ultima copertă
Twelfth Night has seldom been off the stage since Shakespeare's day. It has been performed for its romantic high comedy and its boisterous low comedy; with an emphasis on farce or on autumnal melancholy; as straightforward celebration of heterosexual love and marriage or as exploration of the complexity of gender. David Carnegie and Mark Houlahan's introduction to the play provides a lively discussion of the play's performance history, and encourages readers to think about stagecraft and the play as a performance text, while the historical appendices provide materials that illuminate different thematic elements of the play. Extended notes interleaved throughout the play present relevant illustrations and expand on mythological, historical, and religious references in the play. The accompanying online text will offer additional commentary on staging alternatives and more extensive visual materials.
Recenzii
Gayle Gaskill offers appropriate tribute to G.L. Kittredge by updating his classic edition with a mastery, thoroughness, and verve worthy of the original. This excellent edition is marked by impeccable scholarship that everywhere displays careful attention to detail and keen sensitivity to the needs of modern readers.
—John W. Mahon, Co-Editor, The Shakespeare Newsletter, and Professor of English, Iona College.
—John W. Mahon, Co-Editor, The Shakespeare Newsletter, and Professor of English, Iona College.
Even as the New Kittredge Shakespeare series glances back to George Lyman Kittredge's student editions of the plays, it is very much of our current moment: the slim editions are targeted largely at high school and first-year college students who are more versed in visual than in print culture. Not only are the texts of the plays accompanied by photographs or stills from various stage and cinema performances: the editorial contributions are performance-oriented, offering surveys of contemporary film interpretations, essays on the plays as performance pieces, and an annotated filmography. Traditional editorial issues (competing versions of the text, cruxes, editorial emendation history) are for the most part excluded; the editions focus instead on clarifying the text with an eye to performing it. There is no disputing the pedagogic usefulness of the New Kittredge Shakespeare's performance-oriented approach. At times, however, it can run the risk of treating textual issues as impediments, rather than partners, to issues of performance. This is particularly the case with a textually vexed play such as Pericles: Prince of Tyre. In the introduction to the latter, Jeffrey Kahan notes the frequent unintelligibility of the play as originally published: "the chances of a reconstructed text matching what Shakespeare actually wrote are about 'nil'" (p. xiii) But his solution — to use a "traditional text" rather than one corrected as are the Oxford and Norton Pericles — obscures how this "traditional text," including its act and scene division, is itself a palimpsest produced through three centuries of editorial intervention. Nevertheless, the series does a service to its target audience with its emphasis on performance and dramaturgy. Kahan's own essay about his experiences as dramaturge for a college production of Pericles is very good indeed, particularly on the play's inability to purge the trace of incestuous desire that Pericles first encounters in Antioch. Other plays' cinematic histories: Annalisa Castaldo's edition of Henry V contrasts Laurence Oliver's and Branagh's film productions; Samuel Crowl's and James Wells's edition of (respectively) I and 2 Henry IV concentrate on Welle's Chimes at Midnight and Gus Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho; Patricia Lennox's edition of As You Like It offers an overview of four Hollywood and British film adaptations; and John R. Ford's edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream provides a spirited survey of the play's rich film history.
The differences between, and comparative merits of, various editorial series are suggested by the three editions of The Taming of the Shrew published this year. Laury Magnus's New Kittredge Shakespeare edition is, like the other New Kittredge volumes, a workable text for high school and first year college students interested in film and theater. The introduction elaborates on one theme — Elizabethan constructions of gender — and offers a very broad performance history, focusing on Sam Taylor's and Zeffirelli's film versions as well as adaptations such as Kiss Me Kate and Ten Things I Hate About You (accompanied by a still of ten hearthtrobs Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles). The volume is determined to eradicate any confusion that a first time reader of the play might experience: the dramatis personae page explains that "Bianca Minola" is "younger daughter to Baptista, wooed by Lucentio-in-disguise (as Cambio) and then wife to him, also wooed by the elderly Gremio and Hortensio-in-disguise (as Licio)" (p.1). Other editorial notes, based on Kittredge's own, are confined mostly to explaining individual words and phrases: additional footnotes discuss interpretive choices made by film and stage productions. Throughout, the editorial emphasis is on the play less as text than as performance piece, culminating in fifteen largely performance-oriented "study questions" on topics such as disguise, misogyny, and violence.
Studies in English Literature, Tudor and Stuart Drama, Volume 51, Spring 2011, Number 2, pages 497-499.
The differences between, and comparative merits of, various editorial series are suggested by the three editions of The Taming of the Shrew published this year. Laury Magnus's New Kittredge Shakespeare edition is, like the other New Kittredge volumes, a workable text for high school and first year college students interested in film and theater. The introduction elaborates on one theme — Elizabethan constructions of gender — and offers a very broad performance history, focusing on Sam Taylor's and Zeffirelli's film versions as well as adaptations such as Kiss Me Kate and Ten Things I Hate About You (accompanied by a still of ten hearthtrobs Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles). The volume is determined to eradicate any confusion that a first time reader of the play might experience: the dramatis personae page explains that "Bianca Minola" is "younger daughter to Baptista, wooed by Lucentio-in-disguise (as Cambio) and then wife to him, also wooed by the elderly Gremio and Hortensio-in-disguise (as Licio)" (p.1). Other editorial notes, based on Kittredge's own, are confined mostly to explaining individual words and phrases: additional footnotes discuss interpretive choices made by film and stage productions. Throughout, the editorial emphasis is on the play less as text than as performance piece, culminating in fifteen largely performance-oriented "study questions" on topics such as disguise, misogyny, and violence.
Studies in English Literature, Tudor and Stuart Drama, Volume 51, Spring 2011, Number 2, pages 497-499.
“Gayle Gaskill offers appropriate tribute to G.L. Kittredge by updating his classic tradition with a mastery, thoroughness, and verve worthy of the original. This excellent edition is marked by impeccable scholarship that everywhere displays careful attention to detail and keen sensitivity to the needs of modern readers.” —John W. Mahon, Co-Editor, The Shakespearean Newsletter and Professor of English, Iona College
George Lyman Kittredge’s insightful editions of Shakespeare have endured in part because of this eclecticism, his diversity of interests, and his wide-ranging accomplishments—all of which are reflected in the valuable notes in each volume. The plays in the New Kittredge Shakespeare series retain the original Kittredge notes and introductions, changed or augmented only when some modernization seems necessary. These new editions also include introductory essays by contemporary editors, notes on the plays as they have been performed on stage and film, and additional student materials.
These plays are being made available by Focus Publishing with the permission of the Kittredge heirs.
Gayle Gaskill is professor of English at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota. She has contributed articles to Who Hears in Shakespeare?: Auditory Worlds on Stage and Screen (Fairleigh Dickinson 2012), The Merchant of Venice: Critical Essays (Routledge 2002), The Shakespeare Newsletter, and the Greenwood Companion to Shakespeare. Her reviews have appeared in Renaissance Quarterly and Cahiers Élisabéthains.
George Lyman Kittredge’s insightful editions of Shakespeare have endured in part because of this eclecticism, his diversity of interests, and his wide-ranging accomplishments—all of which are reflected in the valuable notes in each volume. The plays in the New Kittredge Shakespeare series retain the original Kittredge notes and introductions, changed or augmented only when some modernization seems necessary. These new editions also include introductory essays by contemporary editors, notes on the plays as they have been performed on stage and film, and additional student materials.
These plays are being made available by Focus Publishing with the permission of the Kittredge heirs.
Gayle Gaskill is professor of English at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota. She has contributed articles to Who Hears in Shakespeare?: Auditory Worlds on Stage and Screen (Fairleigh Dickinson 2012), The Merchant of Venice: Critical Essays (Routledge 2002), The Shakespeare Newsletter, and the Greenwood Companion to Shakespeare. Her reviews have appeared in Renaissance Quarterly and Cahiers Élisabéthains.
Notă biografică
William Shakespeare (bapt. 26 April 1564 - 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. They also continue to be studied and reinterpreted. Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna and twins Hamnet and Judith. Sometime between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. At age 49 (around 1613), he appears to have retired to Stratford, where he died three years later. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive; this has stimulated considerable speculation about such matters as his physical appearance, his sexuality, his religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by others. Shakespeare produced most of his known works between 1589 and 1613.His early plays were primarily comedies and histories and are regarded as some of the best work produced in these genres. Until about 1608, he wrote mainly tragedies, among them Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, all considered to be among the finest works in the English language. In the last phase of his life, he wrote tragicomedies (also known as romances) and collaborated with other playwrights. Many of Shakespeare's plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy in his lifetime. However, in 1623, two fellow actors and friends of Shakespeare's, John Heminges and Henry Condell, published a more definitive text known as the First Folio, a posthumous collected edition of Shakespeare's dramatic works that included all but two of his plays. The volume was prefaced with a poem by Ben Jonson, in which Jonson presciently hails Shakespeare in a now-famous quote as "not of an age, but for all time".