Contrasting fortunes: lope in the uk/Shakespeare in Spain Contrasting fortunes: lope in the uk/Shakespeare in Spain
In April 2004 the RSC began a season of five plays chosen from the vast, and still largely unexplored corpus of Spanish “Golden Age” drama. Laurence Boswell, who had received plaudits and also the Olivier Award for the SGA season he had conducted at The Gate theatre in London in 1992, was once again...
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| description | In April 2004 the RSC began a season of five plays chosen from the vast, and still largely unexplored corpus of Spanish “Golden Age” drama. Laurence Boswell, who had received plaudits and also the Olivier Award for the SGA season he had conducted at The Gate theatre in London in 1992, was once again appointed to initiate audiences at Stratford, London and the provinces in the subtleties of the comedia form. And though at least two of the plays selected—Cervantes’s Pedro, the Great Pretender (directed by Mike Alfreds) and the Mexican nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s House of Desires (directed by Nancy Meckler)—had never been performed on the mainstream British stage, the pre-season hype and, naturally, Boswell himself were confident that the “plot-driven stories” of each of the plays, stories showing “essential human situations, like couples struggling with very recognizable dilemmas of love” (Boswell 2004), were what put them at the very centre of the European folk drama genre. In April 2004 the RSC began a season of five plays chosen from the vast, and still largely unexplored corpus of Spanish “Golden Age” drama. Laurence Boswell, who had received plaudits and also the Olivier Award for the SGA season he had conducted at The Gate theatre in London in 1992, was once again appointed to initiate audiences at Stratford, London and the provinces in the subtleties of the comedia form. And though at least two of the plays selected—Cervantes’s Pedro, the Great Pretender (directed by Mike Alfreds) and the Mexican nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s House of Desires (directed by Nancy Meckler)—had never been performed on the mainstream British stage, the pre-season hype and, naturally, Boswell himself were confident that the “plot-driven stories” of each of the plays, stories showing “essential human situations, like couples struggling with very recognizable dilemmas of love” (Boswell 2004), were what put them at the very centre of the European folk drama genre. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9e5f3bcd66f04656aa61704bdd96ec962022-12-21T19:11:09ZengUniversidade Federal de Santa CatarinaIlha do Desterro0101-48462175-80262008-04-01049235253Contrasting fortunes: lope in the uk/Shakespeare in Spain Contrasting fortunes: lope in the uk/Shakespeare in SpainKeith GregorIn April 2004 the RSC began a season of five plays chosen from the vast, and still largely unexplored corpus of Spanish “Golden Age” drama. Laurence Boswell, who had received plaudits and also the Olivier Award for the SGA season he had conducted at The Gate theatre in London in 1992, was once again appointed to initiate audiences at Stratford, London and the provinces in the subtleties of the comedia form. And though at least two of the plays selected—Cervantes’s Pedro, the Great Pretender (directed by Mike Alfreds) and the Mexican nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s House of Desires (directed by Nancy Meckler)—had never been performed on the mainstream British stage, the pre-season hype and, naturally, Boswell himself were confident that the “plot-driven stories” of each of the plays, stories showing “essential human situations, like couples struggling with very recognizable dilemmas of love” (Boswell 2004), were what put them at the very centre of the European folk drama genre. In April 2004 the RSC began a season of five plays chosen from the vast, and still largely unexplored corpus of Spanish “Golden Age” drama. Laurence Boswell, who had received plaudits and also the Olivier Award for the SGA season he had conducted at The Gate theatre in London in 1992, was once again appointed to initiate audiences at Stratford, London and the provinces in the subtleties of the comedia form. And though at least two of the plays selected—Cervantes’s Pedro, the Great Pretender (directed by Mike Alfreds) and the Mexican nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s House of Desires (directed by Nancy Meckler)—had never been performed on the mainstream British stage, the pre-season hype and, naturally, Boswell himself were confident that the “plot-driven stories” of each of the plays, stories showing “essential human situations, like couples struggling with very recognizable dilemmas of love” (Boswell 2004), were what put them at the very centre of the European folk drama genre.http://www.periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/7311 |
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