The Comedy of Errors (The RSC Shakespeare),Used

Product DescriptionFrom the Royal Shakespeare Company a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's anarchic comedy. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview of The Comedy of Errors in performance, takes a detailed look at specific productions, and recommends film versions. Included in this edition are interviews with three leading directors Paul Hunter, Nancy Meckler and Tim Supple providing an illuminating insight into the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible. This edition also includes an essay on Shakespeares career and Elizabethan theatre, and enables the reader to understand the play as it was originally intended as living theatre to be enjoyed and performed.Ideal for students, theatregoers, actors and general readers, the RSC Shakespeare editions offer a fresh, accessible and contemporary approach to reading and rediscovering Shakespeares works for the twentyfirst century.ReviewPraise for 'William Shakespeare: Complete Works''Remarkable . . . makes Shakespeare's extraordinary accomplishment more vivid than ever.'James Shapiro, professor, Columbia University, bestselling author of 'A Year in the Life of Shakespeare: 1599''A feast of literary and historical information.''The Wall Street Journal'Praise for 'William Shakespeare: Complete Works''Remarkable . . . makes Shakespeare's extraordinary accomplishment more vivid than ever.'James Shapiro, professor, Columbia University, bestselling author of 'A Year in the Life of Shakespeare: 1599''A feast of literary and historical information.''The Wall Street Journal'From the Back CoverInformative, thoughtprovoking and humane.' Dr Colin Burrow, University of OxfordFrom the Royal Shakespeare Company a fresh new edition of Shakespeare's anarchic comedyTHIS EDITION INCLUDES: An illuminating introduction to The Comedy of Errors by awardwinning scholar Jonathan Bate The play with clear and authoritative explanatory notes on each page A helpful scenebyscene analysis and key facts about the play An introduction to Shakespeare's career and the Elizabethan theatre A rich exploration of approaches to staging the play featuring photographs of key productionsThe most enjoyable way to understand a Shakespeare play is to see it or participate in it. This unique edition presents a historical overview of The Comedy of Errors in performance, recommends film versions, takes a detailed look at specific productions and includes interviews with three leading directors Paul Hunter, Nancy Meckler and Tim Supple so that we may get a sense of the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible, a variety that gives Shakespeare his unique capacity to be reinvented and made 'our contemporary' four centuries after his death.Ideal for students, theatregoers, actors and general readers, the RSC Shakespeare plays offer an accessible and contemporary approach to reading and rediscovering Shakespeare's works for the twentyfirst century.About the AuthorJONATHAN BATE Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature, University of Warwick, UK, and the editor of The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works. He has held visiting posts at Harvard, Yale and UCLA and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Fellow of the British Academy, an Honorary Fellow of St Catherine's College, Cambridge, and a Governor and Board member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. A prominent critic, awardwinning biographer and broadcaster, he is the author of several books on Shakespeare, including The Genius of Shakespeare (Picador), which was praised by Sir Peter Hall, founder of the RSC, as 'the best modern book on Shakespeare.' In June 2006 he was awarded a CBE by HM The Queen 'for services to Higher Education'.ERIC RASMUSSEN Professor of English at the University of Nevada, USA, and the Textual Editor of The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works. He is coe