John Barton (2) (1928–2018)
Auteur de Playing Shakespeare
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A propos de l'auteur
John Bernard Adie Barton was born in London, England on November 26, 1928. He was educated at Eton College and at King's College, Cambridge, where he directed numerous student productions and, after graduating, became a fellow and lay dean. When Peter Hall founded the Royal Shakespeare Company in afficher plus 1961, he asked Barton to help him get the troupe off the ground. Barton would go on to direct more than 50 productions there. As a director and in the classes and workshops he taught, Barton was known for helping actors find the meaning in Shakespeare's lines. He was also a writer and adapter. In 1963, he condensed Shakespeare's three Henry VI plays and Richard III and staged them under the title The Wars of the Roses. He created The Hollow Crown, which premiered at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1961 and then had a run on Broadway in 1963. He also created The Greeks, a nine-hour production spread over three evenings that adapted 10 plays by Euripides, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Homer to tell the story of the Trojan War. He died on January 18, 2018 at the age of 89. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Crédit image: John Barton in rehearsals for Love's Labour's Lost (1965).
Œuvres de John Barton
The hollow crown: The follies, foibles and faces of the kings and queens of England; (1600) 88 exemplaires
The first stage: A chronicle of the development of English drama from its beginnings to the 1580's (1957) 1 exemplaire
Troilus and Cressida. Theatre program. 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Barton, John Bernard Adie
- Date de naissance
- 1928-11-26
- Date de décès
- 2018-01-18
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- London, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- Leverington Hall, Wisbech, Cambridge
- Études
- Eton College
Cambridge University (King's College) - Professions
- Theatre director
- Relations
- Barton, Anne (1) (wife)
- Organisations
- Royal Shakespeare Company (co-founder)
- Prix et distinctions
- CBE
Membres
Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 10
- Membres
- 510
- Popularité
- #48,631
- Évaluation
- 4.3
- Critiques
- 7
- ISBN
- 223
- Langues
- 9
(This volume was published by the company which premiered the plays, but this is very much Barton's script, going to press (as it states) before opening night. Barton fell out with the director, his friend and collaborator for 50 years Peter Hall, over the latter's major edits and directorial approaches. So it's safe to say that Barton's script here doesn't reflect what audiences saw on Hall's stage, and that's probably reasonable, given the length among other things.)… (plus d'informations)