Background
Marowitz, Charles was born on January 26, 1934 in New York City. Son of Harry Yudel Marowitz and Tillie Rosencrantz.
(The acclaimed stage director and theatre critic Charles M...)
The acclaimed stage director and theatre critic Charles Marowitz in tandem with Jan Kott, one of the most penetrating and incisive Shakespearean scholars to emerge in the 20th Century, probe the mysteries of some of the more problematic plays in Shakespeare's canon. The innovative director and dazzling classicist bring two complementary viewpoints to bear as they delve into the collected works, illuminating the constantly changing nature and philosophic nuances of the various plays. The book's centerpiece consists of Kott and Marowitz's insights on such plays as Othello, Romeo & Juliet, Troilus & Cressida and Measure for Measure. They reveal the ideas behind Shakespeare's plays and the process of making them come alive before and audience and present frank, no-holds barred discussions on such subjects as The Shakespeare Industry, The Boundaries of Interpretation, Dramaturgy and Mise-en-scene.
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( Adaptations of The Merchant of Venice, MacBeth, Hamlet,...)
Adaptations of The Merchant of Venice, MacBeth, Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, and Measure for Measure. Having compared an audience to a stopped clock in his introduction to this volume, Marowitz shows the reader the background to these adpatations and of the spirit in which they are made. The "clock" has neither been thrown out, nor has it been disembowelled and turned into a more reliable battery-run model.
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(Fiction: Oh no, not another Sherlock Holmes parody. But b...)
Fiction: Oh no, not another Sherlock Holmes parody. But before your eyes glaze over, take out your meerschaum and try this collection of Charles Marowitz's plays. His Holmes is an acerbic wit, Oscar Wilde in a deerstalker, as abrasive as he is deductive. After a bit of vituperation, Watson comments, "Holmes, if I didn't know you better, I'd take offense at every tenth word you uttered." Holmes responds, "Which would make me fiercely scrutinize why the nine were having no effect." Besides the tart talk--"Guy Fawkes is the only explosive politician Britain ever produced"--there are enough deft plot twists to satisfy a mystery buff. A trifle less successful is "Clever Dick," a parody of the Agatha Christie school of six-suspects-trapped-in-a-mansion. Most of the humor comes from the sexual peccadillos of the upper and lower class as they bump heads, and other parts of their anatomy. Least satisfying of the three plays is "Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life!" It was written shortly after a bitter divorce. The taste of bile is still too strong. An unpleasant misogynism prevails as the wimpy husband, shrewish wife, obnoxious mother-in-law, nymphomaniacal daughter and sleazy divorce lawyer play out the drama. As with reading any play, one comes away longing to enjoy all three "Potboilers" in the form in which they were intended to be consumed.
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Marowitz, Charles was born on January 26, 1934 in New York City. Son of Harry Yudel Marowitz and Tillie Rosencrantz.
Graduated from the high school, New York City.
He was perhaps best known for being a "close collaborator" with Peter Brook at the Royal Shakespeare Company and for founding and directing The Open Space Theatre, both in London. He was a regular contributor to publications such as The New York Times, The Times (London), TheaterWeek, and American Theatre and was the lead critic on the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner until it ceased publication. He was additionally the author of Murdering Marlowe, which imagines a rivalry between William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, which was selected as a finalist for the GLAAD Media Awards of 2002, and of the 1987 Broadway play Sherlock"s Last Case with Frank Langella in the lead role.
His free adaptations of Shakespeare have been collected in The Marowitz Shakespeare.
He died of complications from Parkinson"s disease in 2014 at the age of 80.
(The acclaimed stage director and theatre critic Charles M...)
( Adaptations of The Merchant of Venice, MacBeth, Hamlet,...)
(Fiction: Oh no, not another Sherlock Holmes parody. But b...)
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Served to corporal United States Army, 1952-1954. Member Writers Guild American, Dramatists Guild. M C.
Married Jane Windsor.