Orson Welles on Shakespeare
the W.P.A. and Mercury Theatre playscripts
by Orson Welles
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"Orson Welles's theatrical productions of Shakespearean plays for the W.P.A.'s Federal Theatre Project and Welles's own Mercury Theatre represent a unique blending of high art and the politicized popular culture of the 1930s. This volume is the only publication available of the fully annotated playscripts of these adaptations - the "Voodoo" Macbeth, the modern-dress Julius Caesar, and Welles's compilation of the history plays, Five Kings.
Richard Frances' general introduction provides invaluable background information that relates the three plays and their productions to the contemporary social, historical, political, and economic climate from which they emerged. Additionally, each script is presented with relevant information on the productions, interview material from those on the scene, and Welles's own directorial marginalia."--BOOK JACKET.
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Stage history, Theater, Adaptations, Criticism and interpretation, United States. Works Projects Administration, United States, United States Works Projects Administration, Work Projects Administration, United States. Works Progress Administration, Mercury Theatre on the air (Radio program), Mercury Theatre, History, Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, adaptations, Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, stage history, United states, work projects administration, Welles, orson, 1915-1985, New york (state), history, Theater, history, Theater, united states, history, PERFORMING ARTS, History & Criticism, Bewerkingen, United States. Work Projects AdministrationPlaces
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Orson Welles on Shakespeare: the W.P.A. and Mercury Theatre playscripts
2001, Routledge
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Orson Welles on Shakespeare: the W.P.A. andMercury Theatre playscripts
1990, Greenwood Press
in English
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Orson Welles on Shakespeare: the W.P.A. and Mercury Theatre playscripts
1990, Greenwood Press
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Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-297).
Includes adaptations of Shakespeare's Macbeth and Julius Caesar, and Welles's Five kings, adapted from Shakespeare and based on Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
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