Four Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Twel fth NightRandom House Publishing Group, 26. 8. 2009 - Počet stran: 736 The Taming of the Shrew Robust and bawdy, The Taming of the Shrew captivates audiences with outrageous humor as Katharina, the shrew, engages in a contest of wills–and love–with her bridegroom, Petruchio, in a comedy of unmatched theatrical brilliance, filled with visual gags and witty repartee. A Midsummer Night's Dream Fairy magic, love spells, and an enchanted wood turn the mismatched rivalries of four young lovers into a marvelous mix-up of desire and enchantment, all touched by Shakespeare’s inimitable vision of the intriguing relationship between dreams and the waking world. The Merchant of Venice This dark comedy of love and money contains one of the truly mythic figures in literature–Shylock, the Jewish moneylender. The “pound of flesh” he demands as payment of Antonio’s debt has become a universal metaphor for vengeance. Here, pathos and farce combine with moral complexity and romantic entanglements, to display the extraordinary power and range of Shakespeare at his best. Twelfth Night Set in a topsy-turvy world like a holiday revel, this comedy juxtaposes a romantic plot involving separated twins and mistaken identity with a more satiric one about the humiliation of a pompous killjoy. The hilarity is touched with melancholy, and the play ends, not with laughter, but with a clown’s plaintive song. Each Edition Includes: • Comprehensive explanatory notes • Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship • Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English • Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and performance histories • An interpretive essay on film adaptations of the play, along with an extensive filmography |
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... director, Michael Bogdanov, on the honesty with which he tackled this “barbaric and disgusting” play. In 1975, at the Open Space Theatre in London, Charles Marowitz's adaptation called The Shrew had already taken this line of ...
... director, Michael Bogdanov, on the honesty with which he tackled this “barbaric and disgusting” play. In 1975, at the Open Space Theatre in London, Charles Marowitz's adaptation called The Shrew had already taken this line of ...
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... , Shakespeare's Induction has remained as much a challenge to directors and actors of The Taming of the Shrew as has the battle for mastery between Petruchio and Kate. THE TAMING OF THE SHREW ON SCREEN @§52 Shakespeare could.
... , Shakespeare's Induction has remained as much a challenge to directors and actors of The Taming of the Shrew as has the battle for mastery between Petruchio and Kate. THE TAMING OF THE SHREW ON SCREEN @§52 Shakespeare could.
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... film star Florence Lawrence as Kate the curst, and some five other early adaptations from Great Britain and Italy, the first major production, and indeed the first fulllength talking movie of any Shakespeare play, was director Sam Taylor's.
... film star Florence Lawrence as Kate the curst, and some five other early adaptations from Great Britain and Italy, the first major production, and indeed the first fulllength talking movie of any Shakespeare play, was director Sam Taylor's.
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... director Sam Taylor's The Taming of the Shrew in 1929 with Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks Sr. as the sparring couple. Like most film versions, it does away with the induction about an unnamed lord who plays a prank on the beggar ...
... director Sam Taylor's The Taming of the Shrew in 1929 with Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks Sr. as the sparring couple. Like most film versions, it does away with the induction about an unnamed lord who plays a prank on the beggar ...
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... director Katharina-Florence Lawrence Petruchio-Arthur V. Johnson 2. 1911 (13 minutes) Co-operative Cinematograph Co. Frank R. Benson, director Katharina-Constance Benson Petruchio-Frank R. Benson 3. 1923 (20 Ш111111165) British and ...
... director Katharina-Florence Lawrence Petruchio-Arthur V. Johnson 2. 1911 (13 minutes) Co-operative Cinematograph Co. Frank R. Benson, director Katharina-Constance Benson Petruchio-Frank R. Benson 3. 1923 (20 Ш111111165) British and ...
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