Background
Bevington, David Martin was born on May 13, 1931 in New York City. Son of Merle Mowbray and Helen (Smith) Bevington.
( Many readers first encounter Shakespeare’s plays in a b...)
Many readers first encounter Shakespeare’s plays in a book rather than a theater. Yet Shakespeare was through and through a man of the stage. So what do we lose when we leave Shakespeare the practitioner behind, and what do we learn when we think about his plays as dramas to be performed? David Bevington answers these questions with This Wide and Universal Theater, which explores how Shakespeare’s plays were produced both in his own time and in succeeding centuries. Making use of historical documents and the play scripts themselves, Bevington brings Shakespeare’s original stagings to life. He explains how the Elizabethan playhouse conveyed a sense of place using minimal scenery, from the Forest of Arden in As You Like It to the tavern in Henry IV, Part I. Moving beyond Shakespeare’s lifetime, Bevington shows the prodigious lengths to which eighteenth- and nineteenth-century companies went to produce spectacular effects, from flying witches in Macbeth to terrifying storms punctuating King Lear. To bring the book into the present, Bevington considers recent productions on both stage and screen, when character and language have taken precedence over spectacle. This volume brings a lifetime of study to bear on a remarkably underappreciated aspect of Shakespeare’s art. “An eminent Shakespeare scholar and author, Bevington offers a concise, lucid, and unique overview of the history of Shakespeare in various modes of performance, from stage to film to television.”—Choice “Even veteran Shakespeareans will profit from the varied reminders of how important performance and staging have always been to the interpretation of the plays.”—Renaissance Quarterly
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Bevington, David Martin was born on May 13, 1931 in New York City. Son of Merle Mowbray and Helen (Smith) Bevington.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard University, 1952; Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1957; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1959.
Instructor English, Harvard University, 1959-1961; assistant professor, University of Virginia, 1961-1965; associate professor, University of Virginia, 1965-1966; professor, University of Virginia, 1966-1967; visiting professor, University of Chicago, 1967-1968; professor, University of Chicago, since 1968; Phyllis Fay Horton professor in the Humanities, University of Chicago, since 1985. Visiting professor New York University Summer School, 1963, Harvard University Summer School, 1967, U. Hawaii Summer School, 1970, Northwestern University, 1974.
( Many readers first encounter Shakespeare’s plays in a b...)
(THE Comlete works of Shakespeare Fifth Edition)
(Book by Bevington, David M.)
("Medieval Drama".)
Served with United States Navy, 1952-1955. Member Modern Language Association, American Association of University Professors, Renaissance Society of America, Shakespeare Association American (president 1976-1977, 95-96), American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society, British Academy.
Married Margaret Bronson Brown, June 4, 1953. Children: Stephen, Philip, Katharine, Sarah.