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Author | : Richard Schoch |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2021-05-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 110878867X |
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This short history of Shakespeare in global performance-from the re-opening of London theatres upon the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 to our present multicultural day-provides a comprehensive overview of Shakespeare's theatrical afterlife and introduces categories of analysis and understanding to make that afterlife intellectually meaningful. Written for both the advanced student and the practicing scholar, this work enables readers to situate themselves historically in the broad field of Shakespeare performance studies and equips them with analytical tools and conceptual frameworks for making their own contributions to the field.
Author | : Dennis Kennedy |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2001-12-20 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521785488 |
Download Looking at Shakespeare Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Most studies of the performance of Shakespeare's work concentrate on how the text has been played and what meanings have been conveyed through acting and interpretive directing. Dennis Kennedy demonstrates that much of audience response is determined by the visual representation, which is normally more immediate and direct than the aural conveyance of a text. Ranging widely over productions in Britain, Europe, Japan and North America, Kennedy gives a thorough account of the main scenographic movements of the century, investigating how the visual relates to Shakespeare on the stage. The second edition of this acclaimed history includes a new chapter on Shakespeare performance in the 1990s, bringing the story up to date by drawing on examples from a wide international field. There are more than twenty new illustrations, some of them in colour (bringing the total number of illustrations to almost 200), and previous references have been updated.
Author | : David Wiles |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2003-10-02 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521012744 |
Download A Short History of Western Performance Space Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This innovative book provides a historical account of performance space within the theatrical traditions of western Europe. David Wiles takes a broad-based view of theatrical activity as something that occurs in churches, streets, pubs and galleries as much as in buildings explicitly designed to be 'theatres'. He traces a diverse set of continuities from Greece and Rome to the present, including many areas that do not figure in standard accounts of theatre history.
Author | : Martha Idell Fletcher Bellinger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Robert Speaight |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1978 |
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Download Shakespeare on the stage Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : William Shakespeare |
Publisher | : Hal Leonard Corporation |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2013-04-01 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1623160332 |
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(Book). Shakespeare was a man of the theatre to his core, so it is no surprise that he repeatedly contemplated the nuts and bolts of his craft in his plays and poems. Shakespeare scholar Nick de Somogyi here draws together all the cherishable set pieces including "All the world's a stage," Hamlet's encounters with the Players, and Bottom's amateur theatricals along with many other oblique but no less revealing glances, and further insights into theatre practice by Shakespeare's contemporaries and rivals. De Somogyi's commentary takes us through the entire process of Shakespeare's theatrical production, from its casting and auditions, via rehearsals, costumes, and props, to its premiere and audience reception. Shakespeare on Theatre eavesdrops on the urgently whispered noises-off in the "tiring-house" and inhales the heady aroma of the Globe's first audiences.
Author | : Pascale Aebischer |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2020-04-30 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1108420486 |
Download Shakespeare, Spectatorship and the Technologies of Performance Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Examining how technological developments in performance practices affect spectator experience of Shakespeare and early modern drama.
Author | : James C. Bulman |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 656 |
Release | : 2017-11-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0191510823 |
Download The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Performance Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Shakespearean performance criticism has undergone a sea change in recent years, and strong tides of discovery are continuing to shift the contours of the discipline. The essays in this volume, written by scholars from around the world, reveal how these critical cross-currents are influencing the ways we now view Shakespeare in performance. The volume is organised in four Parts. Part I interrogates how Shakespeare continues to achieve contemporaneity for Western audiences by exploring modes of performance, acting styles, and aesthetic choices regarded as experimental. Part II tackles the burgeoning field of reception: how and why audiences respond to performances as they do, or actors to the conditions in which they perform; how immersive productions turn spectators into actors; how memory and cognition shape and reshape the performances we think we saw. Part III addresses the ways in which revolutions in technology have altered our views of Shakespeare, both through the mediums of film and sound recording, and through digitalizing processes that have generated a profound reconsideration of what performance is and how it is accessed. The final Part grapples with intercultural Shakespeare, considering not only matters of cultural hegemony and appropriation in a 'global' importation of non-Western productions to Europe and North America, but also how Shakespeare has been made 'local' in performances staged or filmed in African, Asian, and Latin American countries. Together, these ground-breaking essays attest to the richness and diversity of Shakespearean performance criticism as it is practiced today, and they point the way to critical continents not yet explored.
Author | : Bill Barclay |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2017-04-13 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1107139333 |
Download Shakespeare, Music and Performance Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume traces the uses of music in Shakespearean performance from the first Globe and Blackfriars to contemporary, global productions.
Author | : Amanda Eubanks Winkler |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2023-01-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1009241249 |
Download Performing Restoration Shakespeare Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Performing Restoration Shakespeare embraces the performative and musical qualities of Restoration Shakespeare (1660–1714), drawing on the expertise of theatre historians, musicologists, literary critics, and - importantly - theatre and music practitioners. The volume advances methodological debates in theatre studies and musicology by advocating an alternative to performance practices aimed at reviving 'original' styles or conventions, adopting a dialectical process that situates past performances within their historical and aesthetic contexts, and then using that understanding to transform them into new performances for new audiences. By deploying these methodologies, the volume invites scholars from different disciplines to understand Restoration Shakespeare on its own terms, discarding inhibiting preconceptions that Restoration Shakespeare debased Shakespeare's precursor texts. It also equips scholars and practitioners in theatre and music with new - and much needed - methods for studying and reviving past performances of any kind, not just Shakespearean ones.