Bøker av Elizabeth Schafer

Seismic shifts in the theatrical meanings of The Merry Wives of Windsor have taken place across the centuries as Shakespeare's frequently performed play has relocated to Windsor's across the world, journeying along the production/ adaptation/ appropriation continuum.

Lilian Baylis was much more than the manager of the Old Vic And Sadler's Wells. She gave career-changing breaks to actors such as John Gielgud and Laurence Olivier. This book gives her biography and details her early career as a musician and dancer and her love for the company of pioneering.

This critical new title in the Theatre & series explores the fluctuating relationship between theatre and Christianity by focusing on key points of intersection - the challenge of realism and the real, the treatment of women and the role of amateur performance.

A groundbreaking study of successful women theatre directors.