Merely Players: Acting Like Shakespeare Really Matters
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| Rating | : | 4.73 (957 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0994388713 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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This is why we still read Shakespeare The ubiquitous presence of Shakespeare within high school curricula presents challenges for educators the world over. It is a practice in not only teaching theatre, but placing that theatre in context. Context in history. Context of those words-as-performance. And context of how close the Bard’s words came to never again seeing the light of day, be it not for the work of John Heminges and Henry Condell. Brisbane author Michael Burge’s Merely Players is a poignant intersection of theatre and reality, highlighting the Bard’s resilient universality This is why we still read Shakespeare Dan Seed The ubiquitous presence of Shakespeare within high school curricula presents challenges for educators the world over. It is a practice in not only teaching theatre, but placing that theatre in context. Context in history. Context of those words-as-performance. And context of how close the Bard’s words came to never again seeing the light of day, be it not for the work of John Heminges and Henry Condell. Brisbane author Michael Burge’s Merely Players is a poignant intersection of theatre and reality, highlighting the Bard’s resilient universality 400 years af. 00 years af
"A poignant intersection of theatre and reality, highlighting the Bard's resilient universality 400 years after his death." - Daniel Seed
Michael Burge is an Australian journalist and writer who was born at Inverell in the New England region of NSW. . He grew up in the Blue Mountains, lived in England for most of the 1990s, and now resides on Coochiemudlo Island in Queensland's Moreton Bay with his husband and their two dogs
The lives of these two unconventional players collide in a journey from Australia to England, from drama school to the professional stage, from male to female, from failure to success and back again, exploring the untold story of those who created the complete works of William Shakespeare.. Centuries later, an out-of-work Sydney actor connects the dots of this drama and is inspired to write a play, bringing him face to face with big life lessons in the art and politics of storytelling. When a middle-aged boy player returns to London's Globe playhouse during a terrible revival of Romeo and Juliet, she sets off a chain of events as great as any of Shakespeare's entertainments, revealing a love story that lay hidden for decades, just beneath the lines of the script