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For almosth alf ac entury DavidB evington of the Universityo fC hicago has been one of the most distinguisheds cholars, editors, and teachers of Shakespeare and early modern drama. This Wide and Universal Theater,n ow available in apaperbackedition, is more thanabookabout "Shakespeare in performance." Bevington offers an excellenta ccount of the physicala nd human resources availablet ot he theater in Shakespeare'sl ifetime. Nine chapters discuss the plays moreo rl ess chronologically,s ometimes grouped by genre (as the Folio editors would have understood the term) and sometimes by twentieth-century critical categories such as "problem play" and "romance or tragicomedy." Especially for early plays such as the first tetralogy( 1H enry VI through Richard III)a nd Romeo and Juliet,B evingtono ffers illuminating -if necessarily speculative -accounts of how tiring-house doors( he thinkst here were three),the columns supportingthe roof over the stage, and the so-called "upper stage" mighth ave been used for scenesr anging from sieges to battlefields to spying to lovers' encounters.F or all the plays he discusses, Bevington follows his own speculations aboutperformances in Shakespeare'sow

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Author

Peter Berek

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Published

2010

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)