Evoking (And Forgetting) Shakespeare

Evoking (And Forgetting) Shakespeare - Dramatic Contexts

2nd Edition

Paperback (26 Sep 2002)

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Publisher's Synopsis

The text of a talk given by renowned theatre director Peter Brook in Berlin in 1998, addressing essential questions about performing Shakespeare today. Brook invites us to consider the actual conditions of the Elizabethan theatre and the actual qualities of Shakespeare's language.

Published as part of the Dramatic Contexts series: important statements on the theatre by major figures in the theatre.

About the Publisher

Nick Hern Books

Nick Hern Books is the UK's leading specialist performing arts publisher with over 1,000 plays and theatre books in our catalogue. Our list of plays includes work by many of the UK's preeminent playwrights, as well as some of the most exciting emerging writers. We work with major theatres and theatre companies across the UK and in Ireland to publish new plays alongside their professional premieres, often in the form of a 'programme/text' that combines the functions of theatre programme and playtext. We also publish many classic plays and plays in translation, together with a wide range of authoritative theatre books, many of them written by well-known theatre practitioners.

Book information

ISBN: 9781854597120
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Imprint: Nick Hern Books
Pub date:
Edition: 2nd Edition
DEWEY: 792.9
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 47
Weight: 66g
Height: 201mm
Width: 129mm
Spine width: 4mm