The BBC Shakespeare Plays: Making the Televised Canon

by Susan Willis

Book Overview

Between 1978 and 1985 the BBC televised the entire Shakespeare canon of thirty-seven plays, a remarkable technical and dramatic accomplishment. Susan Willis, an American scholar in Shakespeare studies and performance, observed the making of a number of these television plays. Here she presents not only a full-scale history and analysis of the BBC series but an unprecedented eyewitness account of the productions, from planning and rehearsal to taping...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807843172
• ISBN13: 9780807843178
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"