Poel, Granville Barker, Guthrie, Wanamaker: Great Shakespeareans: Volume XV

by Cary M. Mazer (Editor), Adrian Poole (Editor), Peter Holland (Editor)

Overview

All four figures in this volume have been canonized as central to 'stage-centred' Shakespearean scholarship and stage practice. From William Poel's reproductions of early modern stages in the late nineteenth century to Sam Wanamaker's reconstruction of the Globe on London's South Bank, they all viewed Shakespeare's plays as being enmeshed in the social and historical dynamics of theatremaking and theatregoing. The volume considers how their attempts to recapture early modern performance conditions can be considered progressive.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474253840
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/24/2015
Series:	Great Shakespeareans , #15
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Cary M. Mazer is Associate Professor of Theatre Arts and English at the University of Pennsylvania, USA.

Table of Contents

Series Preface (Peter Holland, University of Notre Dame, USA and Adrian Poole, University of Cambridge, UK)
Introduction (Cary M. Mazer, University of Pennsylvania, USA)
1. William Poel (Marion O'Connor, University of Kent, UK)
2. H. Granville Barker (Cary M. Mazer, University of Pennsylvania, USA)
3. Tyrone Guthrie (Robert Shaughnessy, University of Kent, UK)
4. Sam Wanamaker (Paul Prescott, University of Warwick, UK)
Endnotes
Selected Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

This makes for a strikingly coherent collection, in which fresh evaluations and effective research are brought to bear on familiar figures, seen in the context of the institutions they inhabited and sought to change.” —Shakespeare Survey

“This addition to the Great Shakespeareans series provides an apt record of the achievements of four committed, influential individuals.” —Around the Globe

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