Shakespeare in the Theatre: Patrice Chéreau

Author:   Dominique Goy-Blanquet (University of Picardie, France) ,  Bridget Escolme ,  Farah Karim Cooper (Shakespeare's Globe London UK) ,  Peter Holland
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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9781350136694


Pages:   272
Publication Date:   31 October 2019
Format:   Paperback
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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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Author:   Dominique Goy-Blanquet (University of Picardie, France) ,  Bridget Escolme ,  Farah Karim Cooper (Shakespeare's Globe London UK) ,  Peter Holland
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   The Arden Shakespeare
Weight:   0.272kg
ISBN:  

9781350136694


ISBN 10:   1350136697
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   31 October 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Series Preface Introduction 1. Formative years 2. First Elizabethan encounters 3. Through space and time 4. Hamlet 5. Contemporary writing at Théâtre des Amandiers 6. Teaching and educating 7. In the cinema 8. Farewell to Shakespeare 9. Chéreau’s contribution to French Shakespeare and beyond Chronological bibliography Notes 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. --SKEN Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies


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. * SKENE Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies * As with Shakespeare, Chereau'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 Chereau, is our contemporary for a long time to come. * Critical Stages *


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. * SKENE Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies *


Author Information

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).

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