Shakespeare in the Theatre: The National Theatre, 1963–1975 Olivier and Hall
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Biographical note
Robert Shaughnessy is Professor of Theatre at the University of Kent, UKRobert Shaughnessy’s <i>Shakespeare in the Theatre: The National Theatre, 1963–1975: Olivier and Hall</i> makes a valuable contribution to Shakespearean performance history and provides a cornerstone to Bloomsbury’s Shakespeare in the Theatre series.
Theatre Journal
Shows the actor shaping the legacy that so strongly shaped him…Highlights include unsparing accounts of Olivier’s infamous productions of Othello in blackface and of The Merchant of Venice with a custom set of dentures that rearranged his celebrated face into a Semitic caricature. From such appalling expressions of minstrelsy-like love and theft, Shaughnessy does not permit the reader to look away. Yet the picture he paints, of a company cast in the shadow of the Royal Shakespeare Company and fighting to shake its superfluous reputation, is more pointillist tableau than knife-edged portrait. Taken as a whole, the book deftly captures Shakespeare’s centrality to the National Theatre’s sometimes canny, sometimes desultory handling of the period’s political and aesthetic churn.
Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
Series Preface
Introduction
1.The National Theatre at the Old Vic 1963-1975
2. Laurence Olivier
3. 1967
4. European connections
5. Peter Hall
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Each volume in the Shakespeare in the Theatre series examines a director or theatre company who has made a significant contribution to Shakespeare production and the aesthetic and socio-political contexts of their work.
Pointing to the range of people, artistic practices and cultural phenomena that make meaning in the theatre, the series de-centres Shakespeare from within Shakespeare studies, and provides an unrivalled way of perceiving the performance of his work.