These popular editions allow 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. Each note each gloss each commentary reflects the stage life of the play with constant reference to the challenge of the text in performance. 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 240 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.