Shakespeare on the Stage

Download or read book Shakespeare on the Stage written by Robert Speaight and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book begins at the Globe Theatre, describing performances there and at the Blackfriars as we know or conjecture them to have been from historical documents. Eighteenth-century tastes were different, and the author shows how Shakespeare's plays were adapted and often considerably altered over the following centuries. Speaight recreates famous productions from the United States, France, Italy, Germany, Russia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Poland.