| Richard III Contributor(s): Shakespeare, William (Author), Cartelli, Thomas (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0393929590 ISBN-13: 9780393929591 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $19.71 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2008 Annotation: "This remarkable edition features a newly edited text of Richard III based on one of the earliest printed texts of the play, along with detailed notes and performance annotations. An integrated audio CD showcases the deeper understanding and enjoyment from the power of performance. Hear Read See: -- Hear recordings of great contemporary and historical performances of key scenes from the play. -- Read about a modern production, from the director's point of view. -- See production notes and photos alongside the text that takes you inside the stage experience. -- See photos from contemporary stage productions and movie adaptations. -- Read and see how a modern cast approaches the play, from interviews with the actors. -- Hear and read about how a legendary voice coach (previously from the RSC) approaches the text and works with actors on "Speaking Shakespeare."" |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | Shakespeare |
| Dewey: 812.54 |
| LCCN: 2008042459 |
| Lexile Measure: 1130 |
| Series: Norton Critical Editions |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.3" W x 8.3" (0.90 lbs) 448 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This Norton Critical Edition of Richard III is based on the First Quarto (1597) edition of the play with interpolations from the First Folio (1623). The play is accompanied by a preface, explanatory annotations, A Note on the Text, a list of Textual Variants, and eighteen illustrations of seminal scenes from major dramatic productions and film versions of the play. "Contexts" provides readers with the sources and analogues that informed Shakespeare's composition of Richard III. These include excerpts from Robert Fabyan's New Chronicles of England and France, Thomas More's The History of King Richard III, Edward Hall's The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancaster and York, A Mirror for Magistrates, and The True Tragedy of Richard III. A selection from Colley Cibber's eighteenth-century adaptation records the compromised form in which Richard III held the stage for approximately two hundred years before twentieth-century editors brought it back into recognizable shape. A representative selection of commentary on stage and film reproductions of Richard III is also provided, ranging from reviews of nineteenth-century productions by William Hazlitt and George Bernard Shaw, a survey of stage performances by Scott Colley, and in-depth analyses of twentieth-century film adaptations by Saskia Kossak, Barbara Hodgdon, and Peter S. Donaldson. "Criticism" collects eight major pieces of scholarship, including early accounts of the play's major themes by William Richardson and Edward Dowden, modern critical assessments by Wilbur Sanders, Elihu Pearlman, Linda Charnes, Katherine Maus, and Ian Moulton, and an essay by Harry Berger Jr. especially commissioned for this volume. A Selected Bibliography is also included. |
Contributor Bio(s): Cartelli, Thomas: - Thomas Cartelli is professor of English and Film Studies at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He is the author of Repositioning Shakespeare: National Formations, Postcolonial Appropriations; Marlowe, Shakespeare, and the Economy of Theatrical Experience, and coauthor of New Wave Shakespeare on Screen. His essays appear in The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe; Shakespeare the Movie II; and A Blackwell Companion to Shakespeare, among others. |