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The BBC Shakespeare Plays: Making the Televised Canon by Susan Willis (Paperback, 2002)

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Between 1978 and 1985 the BBC televised the entire Shakespeare canon of thirty-seven plays, a remarkable technical and dramatic accomplishment. Susan Willis, an American scholar in Shakespeare studies and performance, observed the making of a number of these television plays. Here she presents not only a full-scale history and analysis of the BBC series but an unprecedented eyewitness account of the productions, from planning and rehearsal to taping and editing. Willis shows how the technical elements of television distinguish these productions from stage and film, and she explains how differences in transmission, tastes, educational efforts, and critical responses made the productions a different experience on each side of the Atlantic. She assesses the diversity of styles used by such directors as Jonathan Miller, Elijah Moshinsky, and Jane Howell, for after the early filmic bias toward the productions, directors experimented with unit or stylized sets, Renaissance space and lighting effects, and varieties of scenic realism as methods of embodying Shakespeare's plays for television. The BBC Shakespeare Plays will give readers an accurate sense of television production, take Shakespeare buffs behind the scenes, and serve as an interpretive guide for teachers, thousands of whom have found the BBC productions to be vital classroom adjuncts in teaching Shakespeare.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
ISBN-13
9780807843178
eBay Product ID (ePID)
106254139

Product Key Features

Book Title
The Bbc Shakespeare Plays: Making the Televised Canon
Author
Susan Willis
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Literature
Publication Year
2002
Number of Pages
362 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height
235mm
Item Width
156mm

Additional Product Features

Title_Author
Susan Willis
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States

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