THIS WIDE AND UNIVERSAL THEATER
Book ID/图书代码: 13560007B11642
English Summary/英文概要: Many readers first encounter Shakespeare’s plays in a book rather than a theater. Yet Shakespeare was through and through a man of the stage. So what do we lose when we leave Shakespeare the practitioner behind, and what do we learn when we think about his plays as dramas to be performed?
David Bevington answers these questions with This Wide and Universal Theater, which explores how Shakespeare’s plays were produced both in his own time and in succeeding centuries. Making use of historical documents and the play scripts themselves, Bevington brings Shakespeare’s original stagings to life. He explains how the Elizabethan playhouse conveyed a sense of place using minimal scenery, from the Forest of Arden in As You Like It to the tavern in Henry IV, Part I. Moving beyond Shakespeare’s lifetime, Bevington shows the prodigious lengths to which eighteenth- and nineteenth-century companies went to produce spectacular effects, from flying witches in Macbeth to terrifying storms punctuating King Lear. To bring the book into the present, Bevington considers recent productions on both stage and screen, when character and language have taken precedence over spectacle. This volume brings a lifetime of study to bear on a remarkably underappreciated aspect of Shakespeare’s art.
“An eminent Shakespeare scholar and author, Bevington offers a concise, lucid, and unique overview of the history of Shakespeare in various modes of performance, from stage to film to television.”—Choice
“Even veteran Shakespeareans will profit from the varied reminders of how important performance and staging have always been to the interpretation of the plays.”—Renaissance Quarterly
Chinese Summary/中文概要: David Bevington在这本《这个包罗万象的剧院》中回答了这些问题,本书探讨了莎士比亚的戏剧在他自己的时代和在随后的几个世纪中如何被搬上舞台演出。Bevington运用历史文献和戏剧脚本本身,来还原莎士比亚的舞台剧原作。从《皆大欢喜》中的阿登森林到《亨利四世(第1部分)》中的小酒馆,他解释了伊丽莎白女王时代剧场如何通过最简陋的舞台布景传达出一种真实的场景感。Bevington向我们展示了莎士比亚过世后,十八和十九世纪的公司如何通过营造《麦克白》中的飞行女巫到袭击李尔王的恐怖暴风雨,来制造壮观的效果。转换到当前环境下,Bevington考察了当代舞台和银屏上的莎士比亚剧作,在当代,剧作中的人物性格和语言比场景更重要。此册书终作者一生的研究来发掘莎士比亚的艺术中明显被低估的方面。
“作为一名研究莎士比亚的著名学者和作者,Bevington通过从舞台到电影到电视的各种类型的表演形式,展示了简明、 清晰、独特的莎士比亚历史概述。”——Choice。
“甚至资深的莎士比亚迷们也将从这些多种多样的提醒中获益,即表演和舞台演出对戏剧的理解是多么重要。”——Renaissance Quarterly。(LNL)
Awards/获奖情况:“David Bevington是最博学和虔诚的莎士比亚研究者之一,为我们提供了伟大戏剧搬上舞台表演的非常有用的研究。通过深邃并令人愉悦的方式道明了语言和行动之间关于认知的富有想象力的相互作用。”(Harold Bloom)。
“David Bevington具有探索性的、活跃的、大范围的研究深刻地向我们显示了莎士比亚的戏剧如何使剧院成为了生活、思想、力量、恐惧、怀疑和爱的来源。甚至,他的研究让我们看到戏剧本身是如何强烈地希望我们运用丰富的想象力来处理它们不断变化的剧情。他对自己研究的主题驾轻就熟,给我们展示了从漫长的莎士比亚戏剧表演史中得来的大量精彩的例子。他能从容地穿梭往来于各个时期、传统与前卫之间、 舞台与电影之间,始终不忘展现细节,总是提醒着我们要与戏剧展开持续必要的对话。这是一本促使我们阅读戏剧以及去剧场赏戏的书。”——Kenneth Gross,《夏洛克是莎士比亚》作者。
“David Bevington的新书具有一种相当具体的风格:莎士比亚式杰作。他以四十多载的经验创作了这部可以比肩莎士比亚作品的著作,这是一部值得信赖的全面指南,将加强广大读者的戏剧欣赏体验。”(Bruce Smith, 南加州大学)。
About the Author/作者介绍: David Bevington是在芝加哥大学人文学院的Phyllis Fay Horton杰出服务教授,他自1967年以来就在这里教书。他是很多书的作者,他也是《矮个子莎士比亚》和《莎士比亚全集》二十九卷书的编辑。David Bevington is the Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1967. The author of numerous books, he is also the editor of the twenty-nine volumes of The Bantam Shakespeare and The Complete Works of Shakespeare.
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