Great Shakespeare Actors: Burbage to Branagh, by Stanley Wells
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Great Shakespeare Actors offers a series of essays on great Shakespeare actors from his time to ours, starting by asking whether Shakespeare himself was the first--the answer is No--and continuing with essays on the men and women who have given great stage performances in his plays from Elizabethan times to our own. They include both English and American performers such as David Garrick, Sarah Siddons, Charlotte Cushman, Ira Aldridge, Edwin Booth, Henry Irving, Ellen Terry, Edith Evans, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Peggy Ashcroft, Janet Suzman, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, and Kenneth Branagh. Individual chapters tell the story of their subjects' careers, but together these overlapping tales combine to offer a succinct, actor-centred history of Shakespearian theatrical performance.Stanley Wells examines what it takes to be a great Shakespeare actor and then offers a concise sketch of each actor's career in Shakespeare, an assessment of their specific talents and claims to greatness, and an account, drawing on contemporary reviews, biographies, anecdotes, and, for some of the more recent actors, the author's personal memories of their most notable performances in Shakespeare roles.
Great Shakespeare Actors: Burbage to Branagh, by Stanley Wells- Amazon Sales Rank: #302889 in Books
- Brand: Wells, Stanley
- Published on: 2015-06-23
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 5.80" h x 1.10" w x 8.60" l, 1.10 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 288 pages
Review "Here [Wells] presents a collection of incisive short essays, beginning with one on Shakespeare, which explores the special gifts that made each performer legendary... Wells opens the theater door to the larger-than-life personalities who inhabited it then and now. Of interest to theater and Shakespeare buffs as well as critics, this is a great read." --Library Journal
"Stanley Wells's Great Shakespeare Actors is a companionable tour through the encyclopaedic knowledge of our greatest Shakespeare scholar, full of anecdote, erudition, and intimate firsthand observation. It's a tribute to a life of devotion to the theatre, on the page and on stage, informed by a living sense of what actors do, and who they are, and how they work. There are many classic lives here, but also, to me, some enjoyable surprises." -- Margaret Drabble"...a brisk, fascinating theatrical voyage through more than four centuries" -- The Independent"Stanley Wells - Shakespeare's brightest and best champion for decades - has produced an absolutely wonderful and wildly readable survey of Shakespearean acting. With tremendous flashes of insight, Wells illuminates not just the staging and the modes of acting that predominated over the centuries, but also the true nature of Shakespeare as a provider of play scripts for actors and audiences. Superbly researched, this is a book that I shall revisit time and time again." -- Stephen Fry"Highly recommended." -ChoiceAbout the Author Stanley Wells, Honorary President, The Shakespeare Birthplace TrustStanley Wells, described by Roy Hattersley as 'Our greatest authority on Shakespeare's life and work', is honorary President of The Shakespeare Birthplace, Emeritus Professor of Shakespeare Studies of the University of Birmingham, and Honorary Emeritus Governor of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. He was for nearly twenty years the editor of the annual Shakespeare Survey, and writes for the TLS and many other publications. He has edited The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare Studies and is General Editor (with Gary Taylor) of The Complete Oxford Shakespeare and co-author of William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion. His most recent books are Shakespeare For All Time, Looking for Sex in Shakespeare, and Shakespeare, Sex, and Love.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. All the world's a stage... By Fuzzy's Mom For history buffs and lovers of theatre, this is a fun book that looks at some of the best Shakespearean actors right from the time of Shakespeare himself to the present.Not only does the reader learn how the styles, the scripts and the interpretations differed over the four hundred years but we also get glimpses of the personal lives and times in which these actors (and actresses) lived. It is fascinating to see how the current events of the time impacted what was and was not in vogue. It even looked at actors who were from other countries, some whose native tongue was not English and who either acted in their own language while the rest of the cast spoke English or butchered the pronunciations. I suspect it was quite entertaining but perhaps not in the way intended.It takes us on a trip from Skakespeare's common beginnings to his elevation as classical art to the attempts to make him accessible to the masses. We go from young boys playing female roles to the Restoration where women were allowed on the stage to gender switching and other interesting reworkings of the storyline.. While the book is written in chronological order, it is also one that the reader could dip in and out of without losing track., as each actor is given his or her own chapter.As we are in the midst of Festival season, it would be fun to read this and then watch our modern actors tackle the same roles and compare..
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Shallow scholarship and a disappointment. By Theseus I'm sorry to say this book is a huge disappointment to me. I respect Stanley Wells as a scholar of Shakespeare (not including text structure and the mechanisms of prosody) and even more as a scholar of Elizabethan culture, but it is sad to see that, like many critics and scholars, he understands almost nothing about acting. He can describe the effects of a performance, but when he attempts to explain the process the actor used to get there, he is simply ignorant. Also, given his reputation, the bibliography he provides to document his points is shockingly weak: he uses one or perhaps two currently popular biographies for each actor, sometimes omitting major works, and he seems to have consulted very few primary sources. For John Philip Kemble, for example, he lists only Linda Kelly's recent "The Kemble Era" and doesn't mention the more scholarly classic, "John Philip Kemble," by Herschel Baker. For Sarah Siddons, he omits James Boaden's 1827 "Memoirs of Mrs. Sidddons," which includes interviews with her colleagues. I don't think Wells's book will help anyone understand how an actor works on a Shakespeare play, and its generalizations will probably do more harm than good.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A Bit of Dry Toast... By Stephen L. Broker I found this to be extremely dull, given the exalted roster of its subjects. Some good stuff here and there, but there are better books out there, and, I hope, not so dryly written.
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