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Poel, Granville Barker, Guthrie, Wanamaker

Great Shakespeareans: Volume XV

Bloomsbury Publishing

2015

http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/poel-granville-barker-guthrie-wanamaker-9781474253840/

About Poel, Granville Barker, Guthrie, Wanamaker

All four figures in this volume have been canonized as central to 'stage-centred' Shakespearean scholarship and stage practice. From William Poel's reproductions of early modern stages in the late nineteenth century to Sam Wanamaker's reconstruction of the Globe on London's South Bank, they all viewed Shakespeare's plays as being enmeshed in the social and historical dynamics of theatremaking and theatregoing. The volume considers how their attempts to recapture early modern performance conditions can be considered progressive.

Table Of Contents

Series Preface (Peter Holland, University of Notre Dame, USA and Adrian Poole, University of Cambridge, UK)
Introduction (Cary M. Mazer, University of Pennsylvania, USA)
1. William Poel (Marion O'Connor, University of Kent, UK)
2. H. Granville Barker (Cary M. Mazer, University of Pennsylvania, USA)
3. Tyrone Guthrie (Robert Shaughnessy, University of Kent, UK)
4. Sam Wanamaker (Paul Prescott, University of Warwick, UK)
Endnotes
Selected Bibliography
Index