Shakespeare in ten acts

9780712356329
9780712356312
0712356320

224 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

"On the occasion of the British Library exhibition 'Shakespeare in Ten Acts' 15 April - 6 September 2016. Curated by Zoë Wilcox, Tanya Kirk and Greg Buzwell"--Title page verso
Includes bibliographical references and index

Ch. 1 'A hit, a very palpable hit': Hamlet at the Globe, c. 1600 / Ian De Jong
chapter 2 'Into something rich and strange': The Tempest at the Blackfriars Playhouse, c. 1610-11 / Gordon Mcmullan
chapter 3 'The wide world': Shakespeare across the Globe / Sonia Massai
chapter 4 'Do you not know I am a woman?': The Legacy of the First Female Desdemona, 1660 / Hannah Manktelow
chapter 5 'Tis mad idolatry': Vortigern, the Ireland Forgeries and the Birth of Bardolatry / Greg Buz Well
chapter 6 'Haply, for I am black': The Legacy of Ira Aldridge / Zoë Wilcox
chapter 7 'He is return'd': The Revision and Restoration of King Lear / Lucy Munro
chapter 8 'The revolution of the times': Peter Brook's A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1970 / Peter Holland
chapter 9 'The wheel is come full circle': Twelfth Night at Middle Temple Hall and Shakespeare's Globe, 2002 / Farah Karim-Cooper
chapter 10 'Look here, upon this picture': Theatrofilm, the Wooster Group Hamlet and the Film Industry / Judith Buchanan

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British Library, issuing body
McMullan, Gordon, 1962- editor
Wilcox, Zoë (Curator), editor