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Author | : Andrew Gurr |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 559 |
Release | : 2009-03-26 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1316284166 |
Download The Shakespearean Stage 1574–1642 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
For almost forty years The Shakespearean Stage has been considered the liveliest, most reliable and most entertaining overview of Shakespearean theatre in its own time. It is the only authoritative book that describes all the main features of the original staging of Shakespearean drama in one volume: the acting companies and their practices, the playhouses, the staging and the audiences. Thoroughly revised and updated, this fourth edition contains fresh materials about how specific plays by Shakespeare were first staged, and provides new information about the companies that staged them and their playhouses. The book incorporates everything that has been discovered in recent years about the early modern stage, including the archaeology of the Rose and the Globe. Also included is an invaluable appendix, listing all the plays known to have been performed at particular playhouses and by specific companies.
Author | : Andrew James Hartley |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1107048559 |
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This collection is the first study of student Shakespeare productions at universities and colleges across the world.
Author | : Joel Berkowitz |
Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2005-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1587294087 |
Download Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The professional Yiddish theatre started in 1876 in Eastern Europe; with the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881, masses of Eastern European Jews began moving westward, and New York—Manhattan’s Bowery and Second Avenue—soon became the world’s center of Yiddish theatre. At first the Yiddish repertoire revolved around comedies, operettas, and melodramas, but by the early 1890s America's Yiddish actors were wild about Shakespeare. In Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage, Joel Berkowitz knowledgeably and intelligently constructs the history of this unique theatrical culture. The Jewish King Lear of 1892 was a sensation. The year 1893 saw the beginning of a bevy of Yiddish versions of Hamlet; that year also saw the first Yiddish production of Othello. Romeo and Juliet inspired a wide variety of treatments. The Merchant of Venice was the first Shakespeare play published in Yiddish, and Jacob Adler received rave reviews as Shylock on Broadway in both 1903 and 1905. Berkowitz focuses on these five plays in his five chapters. His introduction provides an orientation to the Yiddish theatre district in New York as well as the larger picture of Shakespearean production and the American theatre scene, and his conclusion summarizes the significance of Shakespeare’s plays in Yiddish culture.
Author | : Stanley Wells |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 559 |
Release | : 2002-05-30 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1139826484 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Stage Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This 2002 Companion is designed for readers interested in past and present productions of Shakespeare's plays, both in and beyond Britain. The first six chapters describe aspects of the British performing tradition in chronological sequence, from the early staging of Shakespeare's own time, through to the present day. Each relates Shakespearean developments to broader cultural concerns and adopts an individual approach and focus, on textual adaptation, acting, stages, scenery or theatre management. These are followed by three explorations of acting: tragic and comic actors and women performers of Shakespeare roles. A section on international performance includes chapters on interculturalism, on touring companies and on political theatre, with separate accounts of the performing traditions of North America, Asia and Africa. Over forty pictures illustrate peformers and productions of Shakespeare from around the world. An amalgamated list of items for further reading completes the book.
Author | : David Bevington |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2009-05 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0226044793 |
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This study examines how Shakespeare's plays have been transformed for the stage by the demands of theatrical spaces and staging conventions.
Author | : Peter Lake |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 683 |
Release | : 2016-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300222718 |
Download How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The politics of virtue -- Honour and its enemies: women on top - again -- Anti-popery -- Divided we fall: the politics of faction in time of war -- CHAPTER 6 Richard III: political ends, providential means -- The making of a Machiavel -- Monstrous bodies and providential signs -- Signs and prophecies -- The audience as 'high all- seer' -- Ambiguities of 'evil counsel' -- From providence to predestination: the return of legitimacy -- Richard III as a guide to the past, present and future -- CHAPTER 7 Going Roman: Richard III and Titus Andronicus compared
Author | : Andrew James Hartley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : College and school drama |
ISBN | : 9781316202265 |
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"Featuring essays from seventeen international scholars, this exciting new collection is the first sustained study of Shakespeare on the university and college stage. Treating the subject both historically and globally, the essays describe theatrical conditions which fit neither the professional nor the amateur models and show how student performances provide valuable vehicles for artistic construction and intellectual analysis. The book redresses the neglect of this distinctive form of Shakespeare performance, opening up new ways of thinking about the nature and value of university production and its ability to draw unique audiences. Looking at productions across the world - from Asia to Europe and North America - it will interest scholars as well as upper-level students in areas such as Shakespeare studies, performance studies and theatre history"--
Author | : Darryl Chalk |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2019-06-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3030144283 |
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This collection of essays considers what constituted contagion in the minds of early moderns in the absence of modern germ theory. In a wide range of essays focused on early modern drama and the culture of theater, contributors explore how ideas of contagion not only inform representations of the senses (such as smell and touch) and emotions (such as disgust, pity, and shame) but also shape how people understood belief, narrative, and political agency. Epidemic thinking was not limited to medical inquiry or the narrow study of a particular disease. Shakespeare, Thomas Middleton, Ben Jonson, Thomas Dekker and other early modern writers understood that someone might be infected or transformed by the presence of others, through various kinds of exchange, or if exposed to certain ideas, practices, or environmental conditions. The discourse and concept of contagion provides a lens for understanding early modern theatrical performance, dramatic plots, and theater-going itself.
Author | : W. B. Worthen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2020-04-23 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1108498132 |
Download Theatre, Technicity, Shakespeare Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Worthen uses contemporary Shakespeare performance to explore the technicity of theatre: its changing work as an intermedial technology.
Author | : Seth Lerer |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2018-11-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 022658254X |
Download Shakespeare's Lyric Stage Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
What does it mean to have an emotional response to poetry and music? And, just as important but considered less often, what does it mean not to have such a response? What happens when lyric utterances—which should invite consolation, revelation, and connection—somehow fall short of the listener’s expectations? As Seth Lerer shows in this pioneering book, Shakespeare’s late plays invite us to contemplate that very question, offering up lyric as a displaced and sometimes desperate antidote to situations of duress or powerlessness. Lerer argues that the theme of lyric misalignment running throughout The Tempest, The Winter’s Tale, Henry VIII, and Cymbeline serves a political purpose, a last-ditch effort at transformation for characters and audiences who had lived through witch-hunting, plague, regime change, political conspiracies, and public executions. A deep dive into the relationship between aesthetics and politics, this book also explores what Shakespearean lyric is able to recuperate for these “victims of history” by virtue of its disjointed utterances. To this end, Lerer establishes the concept of mythic lyricism: an estranging use of songs and poetry that functions to recreate the past as present, to empower the mythic dead, and to restore a bit of magic to the commonplaces and commodities of Jacobean England. Reading against the devotion to form and prosody common in Shakespeare scholarship, Lerer’s account of lyric utterance’s vexed role in his late works offers new ways to understand generational distance and cultural change throughout the playwright’s oeuvre.