Looking at Shakespeare (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Dennis Kennedy
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Literary criticism
- Time of Work: 1850-1990
- Setting: England, Europe, and the United States
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Politics, Literature, England or English people, Theater, Shakespeare, William, or Shakespearean plays, Victorian era or Victorianism
- Locales: Europe, United States, England
In Looking at Shakespeare: A Visual History of Twentieth- Century Performance, Dennis Kennedy says that his intention is twofold: to show the uses of the visual as well as the verbal to transmit meaning in Shakespearean productions and to demonstrate the complex cultural uses of Shakespearean scenography in the twentieth century. Defining scenography as “stage and costume design, lighting, the arrangement of the acting ground, the movement of actors within it, and anything else proper to a production that an audience sees, including the interior architecture of the playhouse...
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