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5.0 out of 5 stars This is an excellent book., April 8, 1999
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M. Jensen (Palo Alto, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Macbeth (Shakespeare in Performance) (Paperback)
Hard to believe some of the students who reviewed this book have so missed the point. This is an overview of performance trends in MACBETH through the centuries. It is well organized, informative, and very clearly presented. Different eras understood the play in different ways. Kliman makes clear how they understood it and so made the performance choices that did. It is not just a glimpse at MACBETH, but at the world since the play was written. Her scholarship is throuough and well documented. She has made good sense of productions that are difficult to recreate or are burried in legend, like the Laurence Olivier of 1955. I can't imagine a better handling of the material given the goals of the author. I have nothing but respect for this book.
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Macbeth (Shakespeare in Performance) by Bernice W. Kliman (Paperback - Jan. 1996)
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