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Problems of Stagecraft in ‘The Tempest’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 January 2009

Stanley Wells
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Abstract

This essay is offered as a tribute to Jan Kott in appreciation of all he has done to stimulate international enthusiasm for Shakespeare's plays.

Type
Research Article
Information
New Theatre Quarterly , Volume 10 , Issue 40 , November 1994 , pp. 348 - 357
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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References

1. Warren, Roger, Staging Shakespeare's Late Plays, p. 13. Quotations from The Tempest are from Stephen Orgel's Oxford Shakespeare edition (Oxford, 1987).Google Scholar

2. Cited from the New Variorum edition, ed. Furness, H. H. (Philadelphia, 1892, reprinted 1964), p. 392, 395.Google Scholar

3. Odell, G. C. D., Shakespeare from Betterton to Irving (New York, 1922, reprinted 1963), Vol. II, p. 294.Google Scholar

4. The original staging of the scene is examined in detail in Gurr, Andrew, ‘The Tempest's Tempest at Blackfriars’, Shakespeare Survey 41 (Cambridge, 1989), p. 91–102.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

5. Kott, Jan, Shakespeare our Contemporary (London, 1964), p. 183.Google Scholar