The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 17.0192 Tuesday, 21 March 2006
From: Marie Macaisa <
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Date: Monday, 20 Mar 2006 20:52:00 -0600
Subject: Announcement: Sourcebooks Shakespeare
Sourcebooks is pleased to announce the publication of a new series of
Shakespeare plays. The Sourcebooks Shakespeare brings Shakespeare's
plays to life in a unique new book and CD format. Each Sourcebooks
Shakespeare edition contains:
AUDIO
. Performance excerpts of important scenes from multiple productions,
allowing the reader to hear and compare different interpretations of the
play
. Introductory notes and explanation by Sir Derek Jacobi
TEXT
. full text of the play
. explanatory notes on the left-hand pages, next to the text
. notes on specific productions
. line references corresponding to each passage featured on the CD
ILLUSTRATIONS
. photographs and images from historical and contemporary productions
. costume designs
. set renderings
also on the left-hand pages, indexed to appropriate lines or scenes
ESSAYS
. a discussion of the play and popular culture by Prof. Doug Lanier
. an approach to "Speaking Shakespeare" by a former voice coach of the
Royal Shakespeare Company, Andrew Wade, complete with audio component
. insights from the cast of a contemporary production. For example, the
Actors from the London Stage talk about their Othello and the 2005
Chicago Shakespeare Theater cast of Romeo and Juliet talk about their
production.
. a discussion of key productions in the play's performance history by
the text editor or other scholar
. a closer look at a particular production by a noted director or
scholar. For example, Janet Suzman writes about her 1987 Johannesburg
Othello and Prof. Peter Holland writes about Peter Brook's 1970 RSC
production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
ADVISORY Editors for books in the series are Ms. Barbara Gaines,
Artistic Director of the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Mr. Michael Kahn,
Artistic Director of The Shakespeare Theatre Company, and Professors
Peter Holland and David Bevington. Please note that Professors Holland
and Bevington are NOT the text editors, as was mistakenly communicated
in a recent marketing email.
Upcoming books (and corresponding text editors) include:
A Midsummer Night's Dream -Terri Bourus, Indiana University
Julius Caesar - Robert Ormsby, University of Toronto
Macbeth - William Proctor Williams, University of Akron
Hamlet - Terri Bourus, Indiana University
Much Ado about Nothing - Jeffrey Kahan, University of La Verne
Richard III - William Proctor Williams, University of Akron
Othello - L. G. Black, Oxford University
The series is being distributed to colleges by Longman. For more
information, please email
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or your Allyn &
Bacon/Longman representative at
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