Shakespeare in the London Theatre 1855-58
Author | : Theodor Fontane |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Theodor Fontane |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Stanley Wells |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780195160932 |
From the entry of Shakespeare's birth in the Stratford church register to a Norwegian production of Macbeth in which the hero was represented by a tomato, this enthralling and splendidly illustrated book tells the story of Shakespeare's life, his writings, and his afterlife. Drawing on a lifetime's experience of studying, teaching, editing, and writing about Shakespeare, Stanley Wells combines scholarly authority with authorial flair in a book that will appeal equally to the specialist and the untutored enthusiast. Chapters on Shakespeare's life in Stratford and in London offer a fresh view of the development of the writer's career and personality. At the core of the book lies a magisterial study of the writings themselves--how Shakespeare set about writing a play, his relationships with the company of actors with whom he worked, his developing mastery of the literary and rhetorical skills that he learned at the Stratford grammar school, the essentially theatrical quality of the structure and language of his plays. Subsequent chapters trace the fluctuating fortunes of his reputation and influence. Here are accounts of adaptations, productions, and individual performances in England and, increasingly, overseas; of great occasions such as the Garrick Jubilee and the tercentenary celebrations of 1864; of the spread of Shakespeare's reputation in France and Germany, Russia and America, and, more recently, the Far East; of Shakespearian discoveries and forgeries; of critical reactions, favorable and otherwise, and of scholarly activity; of paintings, music, films and other works of art inspired by the plays; of the plays' use in education and the political arena, and of the pleasure and intellectual stimulus that they have given to an increasingly international public. Shakespeare, said Ben Jonson, was not of an age but for all time. This is a book about him for our time.
Author | : Adele Lee |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2020-12-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1000295354 |
This collection explores the consequences of accentism—an under-researched issue that intersects with racism and classism—in the Shakespeare industry across languages and cultures, past and present. It adopts a transmedia and transhistorical approach to a subject that has been dominated by the study of "Original Pronunciation." Yet the OP project avoids linguistically "foreign" characters such as Othello because of the additional complications their "aberrant" speech poses to the reconstruction process. It also evades discussion of contemporary, global practices and, underpinning the enterprise, is the search for an aural "purity" that arguably never existed. By contrast, this collection attends to foreign speech patterns in both the early modern and post-modern periods, including Indian, East Asian, and South African, and explores how accents operate as "metasigns" reinforcing ethno-racial stereotypes and social hierarchies. It embraces new methodologies, which includes reorienting attention away from the visual and onto the aural dimensions of performance.
Author | : Clive Barker |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2000-08-17 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521789028 |
New Theatre Quarterly provides a lively international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet, and where prevailing dramatic assumptions can be subjected to vigorous critical questioning. It shows that theatre history has a contemporary relevance, that theatre studies need a methodology, and that theatre criticism needs a language. The journal publishes news, analysis and debate within the field of theatre studies. Articles in volume 62 include: Staging and Storytelling, Theatre and Film: Richard III at Stratford; The Theatrical Biosphere and Ecologies of Performance; The Afro-Caribbean Identity and the English Stage; A Riposte to David Mamet: Heresy and Common Sense in True and False; Form as Weapon: the Political Function of Song in Urban Zimbabwean Theatre; 'Aphrodite Speaks': on the recent Performance Art of Carolee Schneemann; Theatre and Urban Space: the Case of Birmingham Rep; Across Two Eras: Slovak Theatre from Communism to Independence; Whatever Happened to Gay Theatre?
Author | : Adrian Poole |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2014-03-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1408143720 |
Adrian Poole examines the Victorian's obsession with Shakespeare, his impact upon the era's consciousness, and the expression of this in their drama, novels and poetry. The book features detailed discussion of the interpretations and applications of Shakespeare by major figures such as Dickens and Hardy, Tennyson and Browning, as well as those less well-known.
Author | : Gail Marshall |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2024-05-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1040129064 |
Features actors who were significant in their development of new and innovative ways of performing Shakespeare. This title contains extracts from diaries, memoirs, private letters, and obituaries that present a contemporary account of their acting achievements and personal lives.
Author | : Richard Foulkes |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2006-12-14 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521034425 |
Explores the political and social uses of Shakespeare through the nineteenth and into the twentieth century.
Author | : Barbara Hodgdon |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 704 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1405150238 |
A Companion to Shakespeare and Performance provides astate-of-the-art engagement with the rapidly developing field ofShakespeare performance studies. Redraws the boundaries of Shakespeare performance studies. Considers performance in a range of media, including in print,in the classroom, in the theatre, in film, on television and video,in multimedia and digital forms. Introduces important terms and contemporary areas of enquiry inShakespeare and performance. Raises questions about the dynamic interplay betweenShakespearean writing and the practices of contemporary performanceand performance studies. Written by an international group of major scholars, teachers,and professional theatre makers.
Author | : Kerry Powell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2004-02-19 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521795364 |
This Companion is designed for readers interested in the creation, production and interpretation of Victorian and Edwardian theatre in its own time and on the contemporary stage. The volume opens with an introduction surveying the theatre of the time, followed by an essay contextualizing the theatre within the culture as a whole. Succeeding chapters examine performance, production, and theatre, including the music, the actors, stagecraft and the audience; plays and playwriting and issues of class and gender. Chapters also deal with comedy, farce, melodrama, and the economics of the theatre.
Author | : Stuart Sillars |
Publisher | : Oxford Shakespeare Topics |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2013-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199668086 |
Shakespeare and the Victorians explores the place of Shakespeare in Victorian culture, and shows how the plays and the man became central to all levels of Victorian life and thought.