A compendium of fascinating production detail and a compellingly argued history of a crucial period of European theatre in which Chereau played a leading role … Goy-Blanquet’s critical exegesis is detailed and illuminating.

SKENÈ Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies

As with Shakespeare, Chéreau's space is always metaphorized (like the scenic treatment of the phantom in his Hamlet), and he gives the text its true value and the fable its faithful rhythm. The question of theater determines his vision, and his practice of theater is a total art. You have understood it: this book is one of those that must be read and reread. Shakespeare, thanks to Chéreau, is our contemporary for a long time to come.

Critical Stages

Patrice Chéreau (1944 - 2013) was one of France’s leading directors in the theatre and on film and a major influence on Shakespearean performance. He is internationally known for memorable productions of both drama and opera. His life-long companionship with Shakespeare began in 1970 when his innovative Richard II made the young director famous overnight and caused his translator to denounce him publicly as an iconoclast, for a production mixing “music-hall, circus, and pankration”. After this break, Chéreau read Shakespeare’s texts assiduously, “line by line and word by word”, with another renowned poet, Yves Bonnefoy.Drawing on new interviews with many of Chereau's collaborators, this study explores a unique theatre maker's interpretations of Shakespeare in relation to the European tradition and to his wider body of work on stage and film, to establish his profound influence on other producers of Shakespeare.
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Series PrefaceIntroduction1. Formative years2. First Elizabethan encounters3. Through space and time4. Hamlet5. Contemporary writing at Théâtre des Amandiers6. Teaching and educating7. In the cinema 8. Farewell to Shakespeare9. Chéreau’s contribution to French Shakespeare and beyondChronological bibliographyNotes Index
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A compendium of fascinating production detail and a compellingly argued history of a crucial period of European theatre in which Chereau played a leading role … Goy-Blanquet’s critical exegesis is detailed and illuminating.
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A study of leading French theatre and film director, Patrice Chéreau, exploring his role as a key European producer of Shakespeare
A unique study of a key figure in European theatre
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.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781350136694
Publisert
2019-10-31
Utgiver
Vendor
The Arden Shakespeare
Vekt
272 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
272

Biographical note

Dominique Goy-Blanquet is professor of Elizabethan Theatre at the University of Picardie, a member of the editorial board of La Quinzaine Littéraire and a contributor to The Times Literary Supplement. Her works include Shakespeare’s Early History Plays: From Chronicle to Stage (2003), Shakespeare et l’invention de l’histoire (2004), Joan of Arc, A Saint for All Reasons: Studies in myth and politics (2003) and the French translation of and W. H. Auden’s Lectures on Shakespeare (2003).