Early Modern Actors And Shakespeare S Theatre

Author : Evelyn Tribble
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781472576057

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Early Modern Actors and Shakespeare's Theatre by Evelyn Tribble Pdf

What skills did Shakespeare's actors bring to their craft? How do these skills differ from those of contemporary actors? Early Modern Actors and Shakespeare's Theatre: Thinking with the Body examines the 'toolkit' of the early modern player and suggests new readings of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries through the lens of their many skills. Theatre is an ephemeral medium. Little remains to us of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries: some printed texts, scattered documents and records, and a few scraps of description, praise, and detraction. Because most of what survives are printed playbooks, students of English theatre find it easy to forget that much of what happened on the early modern stage took place within the gaps of written language: the implicit or explicit calls for fights, dances, military formations, feats of physical skill, song, and clowning. Theatre historians and textual editors have often ignored or denigrated such moments, seeing them merely as extraneous amusements or signs that the text has been 'corrupted' by actors. This book argues that recapturing a positive account of the skills and expertise of the early modern players will result in a more capacious understanding of the nature of theatricality in the period.

Author : Evelyn B. Tribble
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Acting
ISBN : 1472576063

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Early Modern Actors and Shakespeare's Theatre by Evelyn B. Tribble Pdf

Author : Farah Karim Cooper,Tiffany Stern
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408157053

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Shakespeare's Theatres and the Effects of Performance by Farah Karim Cooper,Tiffany Stern Pdf

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 : Douglas Bruster,Robert Weimann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134313709

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Prologues to Shakespeare's Theatre by Douglas Bruster,Robert Weimann Pdf

This eye-opening study draws attention to the largely neglected form of the early modern prologue. Reading the prologue in performed as well as printed contexts, Douglas Bruster and Robert Weimann take us beyond concepts of stability and autonomy in dramatic beginnings to reveal the crucial cultural functions performed by the prologue in Elizabethan England. While its most basic task is to seize the attention of a noisy audience, the prologue's more significant threshold position is used to usher spectators and actors through a rite of passage. Engaging competing claims, expectations and offerings, the prologue introduces, authorizes and, critically, straddles the worlds of the actual theatrical event and the 'counterfeit' world on stage. In this way, prologues occupy a unique and powerful position between two orders of cultural practice and perception. Close readings of prologues by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, including Marlowe, Peele and Lyly, demonstrate the prologue's role in representing both the world in the play and playing in the world. Through their detailed examination of this remarkable form and its functions, the authors provide a fascinating perspective on early modern drama, a perspective that enriches our knowledge of the plays' socio-cultural context and their mode of theatrical address and action.

Author : Simon Smith,Emma Whipday
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108489058

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Playing and Playgoing in Early Modern England by Simon Smith,Emma Whipday Pdf

Offers a new, interdisciplinary account of early modern drama through the lens of playing and playgoing.

Author : John H. Astington
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781139788519

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Actors and Acting in Shakespeare's Time by John H. Astington Pdf

John Astington brings the acting style of the Shakespearean period to life, describing and analysing the art of the player in the English professional theatre between Richard Tarlton and Thomas Betterton. The book pays close attention to the cultural context of stage playing, the critical language used about it, and the kinds of training and professional practice employed in the theatre at various times over the course of roughly one hundred years - 1558–1660. Perfect for courses, this survey takes into account recent discoveries about actors and their social networks, about apprenticeship and company affiliations, and about playing outside the major centre of theatre, London. Astington considers the educational tradition of playing, in schools, universities, legal inns, and choral communities, in comparison to the work of the professional players. A comprehensive biographical dictionary of all major professional players of the Shakespearean period is included as a handy reference guide.

Author : Pascale Aebischer,Kathryn Prince
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : English drama
ISBN : 1139793071

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Performing Early Modern Drama Today: The actors' Renaissance season at the Blackfriars Playhouse by Pascale Aebischer,Kathryn Prince Pdf

"While much attention has been devoted to performances of Shakespeare's plays today, little has been focused on modern productions of the plays of his contemporaries, such as Marlowe, Webster and Jonson. Performing Early Modern Drama Today offers an overview of early modern performance, featuring chapters by academics, teachers, and practitioners, incorporating a variety of approaches. The book examines modern performances in both Britain and America and includes interviews with influential directors, close analysis of particular stage and screen adaptations and detailed appendices of professional and amateur productions. Chapters examine intellectual and practical opportunities to analyse what is at stake when the plays of Shakespeare's contemporaries are performed by ours"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Stephen Orgel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781317796213

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The Authentic Shakespeare by Stephen Orgel Pdf

In this lavishly illustrated book, one of the most important and influential scholars of the Renaissance stage brings together essays that have changed the way we think about the age of Shakespeare. His subjects are varied and interconnected: the theater as social phenomenon, the development of the stage as an architectural presence and a cultural institution, the changing use of setting and costume, the changing status of the acting profession, the complex relation of theater to the political life of the age. Most of all, The Authentic Shakespeare is about how the modern constructs the past, how the texts that were performed on the Elizabethan stage became the books and editions that are, for our time, Renaissance drama. Many essays in The Authentic Shakespeare have become classics. Collected here for the first time, they essential reading for students of the Renaissance stage and the history of the book.

Author : Evelyn Tribble
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781472576040

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Early Modern Actors and Shakespeare's Theatre by Evelyn Tribble Pdf

What skills did Shakespeare's actors bring to their craft? How do these skills differ from those of contemporary actors? Early Modern Actors and Shakespeare's Theatre: Thinking with the Body examines the 'toolkit' of the early modern player and suggests new readings of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries through the lens of their many skills. Theatre is an ephemeral medium. Little remains to us of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries: some printed texts, scattered documents and records, and a few scraps of description, praise, and detraction. Because most of what survives are printed playbooks, students of English theatre find it easy to forget that much of what happened on the early modern stage took place within the gaps of written language: the implicit or explicit calls for fights, dances, military formations, feats of physical skill, song, and clowning. Theatre historians and textual editors have often ignored or denigrated such moments, seeing them merely as extraneous amusements or signs that the text has been 'corrupted' by actors. This book argues that recapturing a positive account of the skills and expertise of the early modern players will result in a more capacious understanding of the nature of theatricality in the period.

Author : Michael Bristol,Kathleen McLuskie,Christopher Holmes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005-07-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134601196

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Shakespeare and Modern Theatre by Michael Bristol,Kathleen McLuskie,Christopher Holmes Pdf

The book gathers together a particularly strong line-up of contributors from across the literary-performative divide to examine the relationship between Shakespeare, the 'culture industries', modernism and live performance.

Author : Will Tosh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350013872

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Playing Indoors by Will Tosh Pdf

What have we discovered about performance practice in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse since the opening of the intimate candlelit theatre at Shakespeare's Globe? Playing Indoors reveals the results of a two-year study into the performance of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama in this unique theatre, drawing together insights into early modern stage practice and the observations of today's actors and spectators. A history of the experiences of artists and audience members who experienced the space first, the book is also a study of the significance of re-imagined theatres like the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse and the Globe. Accessibly written and intended for a wide audience of students, scholars, artists and theatre-goers, Playing Indoors is a valuable contribution to the young field of early modern practice-as-research.

Author : Robert I. Lublin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781317159001

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Costuming the Shakespearean Stage by Robert I. Lublin Pdf

Although scholars have long considered the material conditions surrounding the production of early modern drama, until now, no book-length examination has sought to explain what was worn on the period's stages and, more importantly, how articles of apparel were understood when seen by contemporary audiences. Robert Lublin's new study considers royal proclamations, religious writings, paintings, woodcuts, plays, historical accounts, sermons, and legal documents to investigate what Shakespearean actors actually wore in production and what cultural information those costumes conveyed. Four of the chapters of Costuming the Shakespearean Stage address 'categories of seeing': visually based semiotic systems according to which costumes constructed and conveyed information on the early modern stage. The four categories include gender, social station, nationality, and religion. The fifth chapter examines one play, Thomas Middleton's A Game at Chess, to show how costumes signified across the categories of seeing to establish a play's distinctive semiotics and visual aesthetic.

Author : Laurie Johnson,John Sutton,Evelyn Tribble
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134449217

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Embodied Cognition and Shakespeare's Theatre by Laurie Johnson,John Sutton,Evelyn Tribble Pdf

This collection considers issues that have emerged in Early Modern Studies in the past fifteen years relating to understandings of mind and body in Shakespeare’s world. Informed by The Body in Parts, the essays in this book respond also to the notion of an early modern ‘body-mind’ in which Shakespeare and his contemporaries are understood in terms of bodily parts and cognitive processes. What might the impact of such understandings be on our picture of Shakespeare’s theatre or on our histories of the early modern period, broadly speaking? This book provides a wide range of approaches to this challenge, covering histories of cognition, studies of early modern stage practices, textual studies, and historical phenomenology, as well as new cultural histories by some of the key proponents of this approach at the present time. Because of the breadth of material covered, full weight is given to issues that are hotly debated at the present time within Shakespeare Studies: presentist scholarship is presented alongside more historically-focused studies, for example, and phenomenological studies of material culture are included along with close readings of texts. What the contributors have in common is a refusal to read the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries either psychologically or materially; instead, these essays address a willingness to study early modern phenomena (like the Elizabethan stage) as manifesting an early modern belief in the embodiment of cognition.

Author : Robert Henke
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781609383619

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Poverty and Charity in Early Modern Theater and Performance by Robert Henke Pdf

Whereas previous studies of poverty and early modern theatre have concentrated on England and the criminal rogue, Poverty and Charity in Early Modern Theatre and Performance takes a transnational approach, which reveals a greater range of attitudes and charitable practices regarding the poor than state poor laws and rogue books suggest. Close study of German and Latin beggar catalogues, popular songs performed in Italian piazzas, the Paduan actor-playwright Ruzante, the commedia dell’arte in both Italy and France, and Shakespeare demonstrate how early modern theatre and performance could reveal the gap between official policy and actual practices regarding the poor. The actor-based theatre and performance traditions examined in this study, which persistently explore felt connections between the itinerant actor and the vagabond beggar, evoke the poor through complex and variegated forms of imagination, thought, and feeling. Early modern theatre does not simply reflect the social ills of hunger, poverty, and degradation, but works them through the forms of poverty, involving displacement, condensation, exaggeration, projection, fictionalization, and marginalization. As the critical mass of medieval charity was put into question, the beggar-almsgiver encounter became more like a performance. But it was not a performance whose script was prewritten as the inevitable exposure of the dissembling beggar. Just as people’s attitudes toward the poor could rapidly change from skepticism to sympathy during famines and times of acute need, fictions of performance such as Edgar’s dazzling impersonation of a mad beggar in Shakespeare’s King Lear could prompt responses of sympathy and even radical calls for economic redistribution.

Author : Harry R. McCarthy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009098953

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Boy Actors in Early Modern England by Harry R. McCarthy Pdf

This innovative study draws on theatre history and present-day performance to re-appraise the remarkable skills of early modern boy actors.