{"product_id":"the-bbc-shakespeare-plays-making-the-televised-canon-9780807843178","title":"The BBC Shakespeare Plays: Making the Televised Canon","description":"\u003cp\u003eBetween 1978 and 1985 the BBC televised the entire Shakespeare canon of thirty-seven plays  a remarkable technical and dramatic accomplishment. Susan Willis  an American scholar in Shakespeare studies and performance  observed the making of a number of these television plays. Here she presents not only a full-scale history and analysis of the BBC series but an unprecedented eyewitness account of the productions  from planning and rehearsal to taping and editing.  Willis shows how the technical elements of television distinguish these productions from stage and film  and she explains how differences in transmission  tastes  educational efforts  and critical responses made the productions a different experience on each side of the Atlantic. She assesses the diversity of styles used by such directors as Jonathan Miller  Elijah Moshinsky  and Jane Howell  for after the early filmic bias toward the productions  directors experimented with unit or stylized sets  Renaissance space and lighting effects  and varieties of scenic realism as methods of embodying Shakespeares plays for television.  The BBC Shakespeare Plays will give readers an accurate sense of television production  take Shakespeare buffs behind the scenes  and serve as an interpretive guide for teachers  thousands of whom have found the BBC productions to be vital classroom adjuncts in teaching Shakespeare.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45665886076981,"sku":"ByrdShop_0807843172","price":66.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780807843178.jpg?v=1782412672","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-bbc-shakespeare-plays-making-the-televised-canon-9780807843178","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}