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Louis Fantasia
Instant Shakespeare offers a straightforward, accessible and practical set of ground rules for performing Shakespeare. These enable performers, directors and teachers to demystify Shakespeare’s complex language and perform his plays…
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Allows performers, directors, and teachers of all cultures and levels to demystify Shakespeare and perform his texts in ways that are clear, fresh, and unpretentious.
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The book is a valuable companion for students, actors, directors, and designers who want insight into playing Shakespeare today.
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This book demystifies the Bard and allows for performance of his plays in clear, fresh, and unpretentious ways.
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In Tragedy in the Age of Oprah: Essays on Five Great Plays, Louis Fantasia provides a provocative examination of the relationship between popular culture and classical tragedy. Making a persuasive…
Playing Shakespeare’s Monarchs and Madmen is the third volume in the Peter Lang series, Playing Shakespeare’s Characters. Distinguished contributors discuss approaches to Shakespeare’s portrayals of power and the lessons they…
"Playing Shakespeare's ?Beautiful People" is an in-depth, comprehensive look at the concepts and standards of "beauty" found in Shakespeare's plays and poems, both in staged performances and in critical literary…
Playing Shakespeare’s Lovers examines Shakespeare’s romantic characters from multiple perspectives.
In Playing Shakespeare’s Rebels and Tyrants contributors (actors, directors, scholars, educators, etc.) analyze the concepts of rebellion, tyranny, leadership, empathy with only references to Elizabethan and Jacobean studies, but also…
The essays in Playing Shakespeare’s Villains trouble our assumptions of what-and who-constitutes villainy in Shakespeare’s works, through probing and provocative analyses of the murky moral logics at play in the…
Talking Shakespeare is a collection of essays on Shakespeare’s plays and politics and their impact in the world today.
