Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Díez, José A. Pérez

Titel

The Duchess of Malfi

Ist Teil von

• Shakespeare Bulletin, 2012-12, Vol.30 (4), p.653-656

Ort / Verlag

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Quelle

Literature Online (LION)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• JOSÉ A. PÉREZ DÍEZ, The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham The Old Vic mounted this much-needed major revival of Webster's play using a lavish visual design, an impressive soundscape, and the commercial asset of casting Eve Best in the title role. A man, Bosola, appeared on the lower gallery, while the rest of the company came on the main stage wearing masks and carrying candles, performing a slow period dance. Despite some odd textual interpolations, cuts, and reassignment of speeches-including giving Bosola one line from Antonio's beautiful dying speech ("Pleasure of life, what is't?"), and cutting the rest-the production presented a faithful, and remarkably straightforward rendering of Webster's script, relying on the play's strengths without developing an artificial concept.