This Applause edtiion allows the reader and student to look beyond the scholarly EreadingE text to the more sensuous more collaborative more malleable EperformanceE text which emerges in conjunction with the commentary and notes. Readers and students are faced with real theatrical choices in each speech as the editors point out the challenges and opportunities to the actor and director at each juncture. Readers will not only discover an enlivened Shakespeare they will be empowered to rehearse and direct their own productions of the imagination in the process.

 

This book is part of a book series called Applause Books .

This book is aimed at the following children: secondary school , university .

There are 176 pages in this book. This book was published 2000 by Applause Theatre Book Publishers .

Rene Weis is Professor of English at University College London and a distinguished editor and biographer of Shakespeare. John Russell Brown is Professor of Theatre at the University of Michigan and was for fifteen years Associate of the National Theatre in London.