Designers' Shakespeare

<p>Theatre Design involves everything seen on stage: not only scenery but costumes wigs makeup properties lighting sound even the shape and material of the stage itself. <i>Designers’ Shakespeare </i>presents and analyses the work of a half-dozen leading practitioners of this specialist art. By focusing specifically on their Shakespearean work it also offers a fresh exciting perspective on some of the best-known drama of all time. </p><p>Shakespeare’s plays offer an unusual range of opportunities to designers. As they were written for a theatre which gave no opportunity for scenic support or embellishment designers are freed from any compulsion to imitate original practices. This has resulted in the extraordinarily diverse range of works presented in this volume which considers among others the work of Josef Svoboda Karl-Ernst Herrmann Ming Cho Lee Alison Chitty Robert Wilson Societas Raffaello Sanzio Filter Theatre Catherine Zuber John Bury Christopher Morley Ralph Koltai and Sean Kenny.</p><p>Designers’ Shakespeare joins <i>Actors’ Shakespeare </i>and <i>Directors’ Shakespeare </i>as essential reading for lovers of Shakespeare from theatre-goers and students to directors and theatre designers. </p>