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As You Like It

Shaughnessy, Robert (2017) As You Like It. Shakespeare in Performance . Manchester University Press, Manchester, UK, 200 pp. E-ISBN 978-1-5261-1573-7. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:60554)

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Abstract

This book examines the modern performance history of one of Shakespeare's best-loved and most enduring comedies, and one that has given opportunities for generations of theatre-makers and theatre-goers to explore the pleasures of pastoral, gender masquerade and sexual ambiguity. Powered by Shakespeare's greatest female comic role, the play invites us into a deeply English woodland that has also been richly imagined as a space of dreams. The study retrieves the untold stories of stage productions in Britain, France and Germany, which include Royal Shakespeare Company productions starring Vanessa Redgrave, Eileen Atkins and Juliet Stevenson, the ground-breaking all-male productions at the National Theatre in 1967 and by Cheek by Jowl in 1992, and the versions directed by Jacques Copeau in Paris in 1934, and by Peter Stein in Berlin in 1977. It also addresses the four major screen versions of the play, ranging from Paul Czinner's 1936 film to Kenneth Branagh's seventy years later.

Item Type: Book
Uncontrolled keywords: Shakespeare, As You Like It, performance, film history, theatre history, Royal Shakespeare Company, National Theatre, Cheek by Jowl, Shakespeare's Globe, Schaubuhne, Peter Stein, Jacques Copeau, Laurence Olivier, Kenneth Branagh, Christine Edzard, BBC.
Subjects: P Language and Literature > PR English literature
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of Arts
Depositing User: Robert Shaughnessy
Date Deposited: 27 Feb 2017 10:37 UTC
Last Modified: 23 Feb 2021 10:33 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/60554 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Shaughnessy, Robert.

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