Book contents
- Shakespeare Survey 75
- Shakespeare Survey
- Shakespeare Survey
- Copyright page
- Editor’s Note
- Contributors
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Understanding Iago, An Italian Film Adaptation Of Othello: Clientelism, Corruption, Politics
- Circumventing Marginality: The Curious Case Of India’s Othello Screen Adaptations
- Othello’s Kin: Legacy, Belonging And The Fortunes Of The Moor
- ‘More Fair Than Black’: Othellos On British Radio
- ‘This Fair Paper’: Othello And The Artists’ Book
- Othello: A Dialogue With The Built Environment
- ‘[A] Maid Called Barbary’: Othello, Moorish Maidservants And The Black Presence In Early Modern England
- ‘The Moor’s Abused By Some Most Villainous Knave, Some Base Notorious Knave, Some Scurvy Fellow’: Legal Spaces, Racial Trauma And Shakespeare’s The Tragedy Of Othello, The Moor Of Venice
- Ben Jonson’s Sejanus And Shakespeare’s Othello: Two Plays Performed By The King’s Men In 1603
- Iago And The Clown: Disassembling The Vice In Othello
- Pitying Desdemona In Folio Othello: Race, Gender And The Willow Song
- Desdemona’s Honest Friend
- Suffering Ecstasy: Othello And The Drama Of Displacement
- Othello’s Sympathies: Emotion, Agency And Identification
- Warning The Stage: Shakespeare’s Mid-Scene Entrance Conventions
- Looking For Perdita In Ali Smith’s Summer
- Grafted To The Moor: Anglo-Spanish Dynastic Marriage And Miscegenated Whiteness In The Winter’s Tale
- Rhyme, History And Memory In A Mirror For Magistrates And Henry VI
- ‘Bad’ Love Lyrics And Poetic Hypocrisy From Gascoigne To Benson’s Shakespeare
- Viola’s Telemachy
- New Analogical Evidence For Cymbeline’s Folkloric Composition In The Medieval Icelandic Ála Flekks Saga
- ‘But When Extremities Speak’: Harley Granville-Barker, Coriolanus, The World Wars And The State Of Exception
- Shakespeare Performances in England, 2021
- Shakespeare Performances in England, 2021
- Professional Shakespeare Productions In The British Isles, January–December 2020
- The Year’s Contribution To Shakespeare Studies
- Abstracts Of Articles In Shakespeare Survey 75
- Index
‘But When Extremities Speak’: Harley Granville-Barker, Coriolanus, The World Wars And The State Of Exception
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 August 2022
- Shakespeare Survey 75
- Shakespeare Survey
- Shakespeare Survey
- Copyright page
- Editor’s Note
- Contributors
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Understanding Iago, An Italian Film Adaptation Of Othello: Clientelism, Corruption, Politics
- Circumventing Marginality: The Curious Case Of India’s Othello Screen Adaptations
- Othello’s Kin: Legacy, Belonging And The Fortunes Of The Moor
- ‘More Fair Than Black’: Othellos On British Radio
- ‘This Fair Paper’: Othello And The Artists’ Book
- Othello: A Dialogue With The Built Environment
- ‘[A] Maid Called Barbary’: Othello, Moorish Maidservants And The Black Presence In Early Modern England
- ‘The Moor’s Abused By Some Most Villainous Knave, Some Base Notorious Knave, Some Scurvy Fellow’: Legal Spaces, Racial Trauma And Shakespeare’s The Tragedy Of Othello, The Moor Of Venice
- Ben Jonson’s Sejanus And Shakespeare’s Othello: Two Plays Performed By The King’s Men In 1603
- Iago And The Clown: Disassembling The Vice In Othello
- Pitying Desdemona In Folio Othello: Race, Gender And The Willow Song
- Desdemona’s Honest Friend
- Suffering Ecstasy: Othello And The Drama Of Displacement
- Othello’s Sympathies: Emotion, Agency And Identification
- Warning The Stage: Shakespeare’s Mid-Scene Entrance Conventions
- Looking For Perdita In Ali Smith’s Summer
- Grafted To The Moor: Anglo-Spanish Dynastic Marriage And Miscegenated Whiteness In The Winter’s Tale
- Rhyme, History And Memory In A Mirror For Magistrates And Henry VI
- ‘Bad’ Love Lyrics And Poetic Hypocrisy From Gascoigne To Benson’s Shakespeare
- Viola’s Telemachy
- New Analogical Evidence For Cymbeline’s Folkloric Composition In The Medieval Icelandic Ála Flekks Saga
- ‘But When Extremities Speak’: Harley Granville-Barker, Coriolanus, The World Wars And The State Of Exception
- Shakespeare Performances in England, 2021
- Shakespeare Performances in England, 2021
- Professional Shakespeare Productions In The British Isles, January–December 2020
- The Year’s Contribution To Shakespeare Studies
- Abstracts Of Articles In Shakespeare Survey 75
- Index
Summary
Harley Granville-Barker is widely recognized for his innovative approach to the presentation of Shakespeare on stage. By removing elaborate scenic décor in favour of a more open stage, Barker broke with the traditions of Victorian Shakespeare, which had prioritized an aesthetic of scenic realism. His approach allowed for far fewer cuts to the playscript – often needed in past productions of Shakespeare because of the time it took to change the scenery – and a faster pace of delivery and action. His productions of The Winter’s Tale and Twelfth Night (1912) and his A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1914) at the Savoy Theatre revolutionized the staging of Shakespeare and would come to define ‘modern’ Shakespeare production, influencing generations of directors, from Peter Brook and Peter Hall to Richard Eyre and Adrian Noble. Barker had been planning on staging Macbeth, but his Shakespeare productions were interrupted by the outbreak of World War I, after which he largely turned his back on theatre in favour of academic study.1 Barker moved from London to the relative isolation of Devon, before emigrating to Paris in 1930. He fled Paris for the US in 1940, shortly before the fall of France, returning to Paris in 1946 and passing away the same year.
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- Shakespeare Survey 75Othello, pp. 313 - 332Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022