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Author | : Ralph Berry |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2014-08-13 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1317646436 |
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These studies take stage history as a means of knowing the play. Half of the studies deal with casting - doubling, chorus and the crowd, the star of Hamlet and Measure for Measure. Then the transformations of dramatis personae are analyzed and The Tempest is viewed through the changing relationships of Prospero, Ariel and Caliban. Some of Shakespeare’s most original strategies for audience control are studied, such as Cordelia's asides in King Lear, Richard II’s subversive laughter and the scenic alternation of pleasure and duty in Henry IV. Performance is the realization of identity. The book draws on major productions up to 1992, just before the book was originally published.
Author | : Richard Schoch |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2021-05-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 110878867X |
Download A Short History of Shakespeare in Performance Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : E. Lin |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2012-09-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137006501 |
Download Shakespeare and the Materiality of Performance Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Winner of the MRDS 2013 David Bevington Award for Best New Book in Early Drama Studies! Drawing on a wide variety of primary sources, Lin reconstructs playgoers' typical ways of thinking and feeling and demonstrates how these culturally-trained habits of mind shaped dramatic narratives and the presentational dynamics of onstage action.
Author | : Paul Edward Yachnin |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780754655855 |
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Using the tools of theatre history in their investigation into the phenomenology of the performance experience, the essays here also consider the social, ideological and institutional contingencies that determine the production and reception of the living spectacle. The contributors strive to bring better understanding to Shakespeare's imaginative investment in the relationship between theatrical production and the emotional, intellectual and cultural effects of performance broadly defined in social terms.
Author | : David Bevington |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2009-05 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0226044793 |
Download This Wide and Universal Theater Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This study examines how Shakespeare's plays have been transformed for the stage by the demands of theatrical spaces and staging conventions.
Author | : Farah Karim Cooper |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2015-01-05 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1408157055 |
Download Shakespeare's Theatres and the Effects of Performance Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
How did Elizabethan and Jacobean acting companies create their visual and aural effects? What materials were available to them and how did they influence staging and writing? What impact did the sensations of theatre have on early modern audiences? How did the construction of the playhouses contribute to technological innovations in the theatre? What effect might these innovations have had on the writing of plays? Shakespeare's Theatres and The Effects of Performance is a landmark collection of essays by leading international scholars addressing these and other questions to create a unique and comprehensive overview of the practicalities and realities of the theatre in the early modern period.
Author | : Sarah Werner |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2005-07-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1134588038 |
Download Shakespeare and Feminist Performance Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 Women's 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 playwright's intentions without shaping them to mirror our own assumptions. By examining the ideological implications of performance practices, this book will help all interested in Shakespeare's plays to explore what it means to study them in performance.
Author | : Delia Jarrett-Macauley |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2016-08-05 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1317429443 |
Download Shakespeare, Race and Performance Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
What does it mean to study Shakespeare within a multicultural society? And who has the power to transform Shakespeare? The Diverse Bard explores how Shakespeare has been adapted by artists born on the margins of the Empire, and how actors of Asian and African-Caribbean origin are being cast by white mainstream directors. It examines how notions of 'race' define the contemporary British experience, including the demands of traditional theatre, and it looks at both the playtexts themselves and contemporary productions. Editor Delia Jarrett-Macauley assembles a stunning collection of classic texts and new scholarship by leading critics and practitioners, to provide the first comprehensive critical and practical analysis of this field.
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 | : Pascale Aebischer |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2022-01-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108952186 |
Download Viral Shakespeare Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This Element offers a first-person phenomenological history of watching productions of Shakespeare during the pandemic year of 2020. The first section of the Element explores how Shakespeare 'went viral' during the first lockdown of 2020 and considers how the archival recordings of Shakespeare productions made freely available by theatres across Europe and North America impacted on modes of spectatorship and viewing practices, with a particular focus on the effect of binge-watching Hamlet in lockdown. The Element's second section documents two made-for-digital productions of Shakespeare by Oxford-based Creation Theatre and Northern Irish Big Telly, two companies who became leaders in digital theatre during the pandemic. It investigates how their productions of The Tempest and Macbeth modelled new platform-specific ways of engaging with audiences and creating communities of viewing at a time when, in the UK, government policies were excluding most non-building-based theatre companies and freelancers from pandemic relief packages.