Shakespeare in the Theatre: Peter Hall Hampton-Reeves Stuart
Shakespeare in the Theatre: Peter Hall Hampton-Reeves Stuart Peter Hall is one of the most significant and influential directors of Shakespeare's work of modern times. His best productions…
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Shakespeare in the Theatre: Peter Hall Hampton-Reeves Stuart
Peter Hall is one of the most significant and influential directors of Shakespeare's work of modern times. His best productions exemplified this approach: Coriolanus (1959), The Wars of the Roses (1963) and Hamlet (1965) established his reputation as a director able to bring Shakespeare to the heart of contemporary politics. Through both his own work and the management of two national theatre companies, the National Theatre and the RSC, Hall has promoted Shakespeare as a writer who can comment incisively on the modern world.
The book explores Hall's work as a deliberate articulation of Shakespeare and national culture in the post-war years. However, Hall's career has been very varied, and sometimes his critical failures are as interesting as his successes. The main focus is on his Shakespeare work, but critical attention is also given to non-Shakespearean