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Shakespeare in the Theatre: Patrice Chéreau
Contributor(s): Goy-Blanquet, Dominique (Author), Escolme, Bridget (Editor), Holland, Peter (Editor)
ISBN: 1474273912     ISBN-13: 9781474273916
Publisher: Arden Shakespeare
OUR PRICE:   $133.65  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: April 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Drama | Shakespeare
- Drama | European - French
- Performing Arts | Theater - Direction & Production
Dewey: 792.023
LCCN: 2017045569
Series: Shakespeare in the Theatre
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (0.85 lbs) 272 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
 
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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.

Contributor Bio(s): Holland, Peter: -

Peter Holland holds the McMeel Family Chair in Shakespeare Studies in the Department of Film, Television and Theatre and is Associate Dean for the Arts at the University of Notre Dame. He was formerly Director of the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon and is editor of Shakespeare Survey and co-general editor of the Oxford Shakespeare Topics series.

Peter Holland is McMeel Family Chair in Shakespeare Studies at the University of Notre Dame, USA.


Peter Holland is the McMeel Family Chair in Shakespeare Studies and the Associate Dean for the Arts at the University of Notre Dame, USA.

Goy-Blanquet, Dominique: - 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).