How do performances of Shakespeare change the meanings of the plays? In this controversial new book; Sarah Werner argues that the text of a Shakespeare play is only one of the many factors that give a performance its meaning. By focusing on The Royal Shakespeare Company; Werner demonstrates how actor training; company management and gender politics fundamentally affect both how a production is created and the interpretations it can suggest. Werner concentrates particularly on: The influential training methods of Cicely Berry and Patsy Rodenburg The history of the RSC Womens Group Gale Edwards production of The Taming of the Shrew She reveals that no performance of Shakespeare is able to bring the plays to life or to realise the playwrights intentions without shaping them to mirror our own assumptions. By examining the ideological implications of performance practices; this book will help all interested in Shakespeares plays to explore what it means to study them in performance.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Tim Grey is the best!By ColoradoCowboyStill have a bit to read and yes some of the info is quite dated like CRT monitors BUT it was well the price to understand more about color and color management. Heres to better photos!!16 of 17 people found the following review helpful. Excellent; primary source for beginners thru professionalsBy L NostrantSix stars! This is an outstanding resource for anyone who is interested in getting the best results from their digital darkroom using Photoshop and a good photo printer. This book is full of practical; not just theoretical; information - tips and advice you can put to work immediately. Grey writes in an easy to understand; straightforward manner. There are loads of full color illustrations and graphics. The book covers Foundations; Photoshop Set-Up (with good tips on getting the best configuration); Display (with recomendations on which monitors to choose; calibrating your monitor; etc.); Scanning; Digital Capture (with recommendations about digital cameras; managing digital camera color; etc); Optimization (including excellent advice and tips on making color adjustments); Output (this chapter alone is worth the price of the book); and Workflow. This book will save you time and money; and increase your satisfaction with your digital images (whether you start with film or a digital capture). I am a "confident amateur" photographer and found this book to be chock-full of information; and I have already started to use what Im learning from it with excellent results.42 of 44 people found the following review helpful. The Title Tells It AllBy Conrad J. ObregonSome people shoot pictures with digital cameras; download them; print them up and are happy with whatever they get. Others complain if there is the least deviation in color between what they remember seeing and what gets printed up. It is at this latter group that "Color Confidence" is aimed.Tim Grey; the author; is a respected teacher of Photoshop techniques and is known to many for the Digital Darkroom Questions mailing list; which many digital photographers read on a daily basis.This book is aimed at a single issue in digital photography: how to make the output of the digital photography process; be it individual print; world-wide web; or printing press; match the color that the photographer visualized when he took a picture. Several years ago; when photographers were less sophisticated and happy with the ease of getting digital output; this was scarcely a question; but as digital photographers became more experienced (and as affordable techniques became available) more and more photographers began to ask why the output of their printers didnt look like their monitors. The field of color management was born.With a minimum of technical jargon; the author explains the nature of color. He then tells you how to establish color profiles for input devices; like cameras and scanners; processing devices like computers; and output devices like ink-jet printers; so that all of the devices in the digital darkroom pass on information about the digital photograph that will insure consistency. For computer software; Grey assumes the use of the industry standard; Photoshop. If you use some other image processing software; you will have to interpolate from Photoshop; or find some other source of color management information.If you read every word in this book; Grey might appear pedantic; because when he discusses using several different devices for a particular purpose; he will repeat many of the same instructions; word for word. But if you later pick up the book; while you are sitting at your computer; you know that what you are reading will be the whole story for the operation and tool that you are using; and that some important hint is not hidden elsewhere.I?ve long considered myself to be relatively savvy when it comes to color management. However; I picked up a few tips about along the way that clearly made the book worthwhile for me. For example; I understood the function of "soft-proofing" but never really developed a regular work process dealing with this technique. Then I read Greys discussion and a light bulb went on.This is not exciting reading; but the author is clear and direct and moves the subject along quickly. If you need to learn about color management for digital photography; this is the book for you.