Coriolanus.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (294 pages)
- Shakespeare in Performance Series .
- Shakespeare in Performance Series .
Shakespeare in Performance: Coriolanus -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- SERIES EDITORS' PREFACE -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CHAPTER I: Introduction - Coriolanus from the seventeenth to the twentieth century -- CHAPTER II: Olivier's Coriolanus -- CHAPTER III: Coriolanus and Brecht, 1951-71 -- CHAPTER IV: Brechtian vestiges and Shakespeare-plus-relevance - The RSC's Coriolanus 1972-73 -- CHAPTER V: Alan Howard on stage and screen -- CHAPTER VI: Shakespeare and Thatcher's England - The 1984-85 NT Coriolanus -- CHAPTER VII: Shakespeare and goulash communism - Coriolanus in Budapest in 1985 -- CHAPTER VIII: Shakespeare meets the American public - The 1988-89 NYSF Coriolanus -- CHAPTER IX: Québécois Shakespeare goes global - Robert Lepage's Coriolan -- CHAPTER X: Bringing Shakespeare home or settling in comfortably? The new Globe's 2006 Coriolanus -- CHAPTER XI: Coriolanus as failed action hero -- NOTES -- APPENDIX: Major actors and staff for twentieth- and twenty-first twenty-century productions discussed in this volume -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Index.
A study of twenty stage productions, adaptations and screen versions of Shakespeare's final Roman play.