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Author : Pascale Aebischer,Kathryn Prince
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521193351
Recent performances of early modern plays are analysed in essays by practitioners and academics, featuring critical, pedagogical and practical approaches.
Author : Pascale Aebischer,Kathryn Prince
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139788533
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. Whether experimenting with original performance practices or contemporary theatrical and cinematic ones, productions of early modern drama offer an inspiring, sometimes unusual, always interesting perspective on the plays they interpret for modern audiences.
Author : Pascale Aebischer,Kathryn Prince
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : English drama
ISBN : 1139777173
"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 : Pascale Aebischer,Kathryn Prince
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : English drama
ISBN : 1139793071
"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 : Pamela Bickley,Jenny Stevens
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472577139
Where does Shakespeare fit into the drama of his day? Getting to know the work of Shakespeare's contemporaries offers an insight into Elizabethan and Jacobean preoccupations and the theatrical climate of the early modern period. This book provides an essential overview of some major dramatic works from their stage origins to today's screen productions. Each chapter includes: a detailed analysis of a play by Shakespeare considered alongside a key work by one other significant playwright of the day (including The Merchant of Venice, Volpone, The Spanish Tragedy, Titus Andronicus, Othello, The Changeling, Romeo and Juliet, The Duchess of Malfi, Measure for Measure, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, The Taming of the Shrew, The Tragedy of Mariam, Doctor Faustus and Hamlet); close reading of the texts; a discussion of early modern theatrical practices; a focus on one ground-breaking example of early modern drama on screen; suggestions for links with other early modern texts and further reading. This is an ideal introduction for students of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, providing a route map to the very latest developments in early modern drama studies while fostering confident and independent critical thinking about a range of canonical texts. -- from back cover.
Author : Pascale Aebischer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107024939
Pascale Aebischer provides the only comprehensive analysis of early modern drama on screen, expanding the scope of Shakespearean performance studies.
Author : Simon Smith,Emma Whipday
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108489058
Offers a new, interdisciplinary account of early modern drama through the lens of playing and playgoing.
Author : Harry R. McCarthy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108810233
This Element provides the first in-depth study of the present-day all-boy company, Edward's Boys, who are based at King Edward VI School ('Shakespeare's School') in Stratford-upon-Avon. Since 2005, the company has produced a wide array of early modern plays, providing the most substantial repertory of early modern drama available for examination by scholars. The Element provides a comprehensive account of the company's practices, drawing on extensive rehearsal and performance observation, evidence from the company's archive, and interviews with actors and key company personnel. The Element takes account of the company's particular educational and strongly interpersonal environment, suggesting that these factors have a distinctive shaping force on their performance practice. In the hands of Edward's Boys, the Element argues, early modern drama becomes the source of company creation, ensemble practice, and virtuosic physical play, inviting us to reimagine what it means - and takes - to perform these plays today.
Author : Will Tosh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350013865
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 : Pamela Bickley,Jenny Stevens
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472577160
Where does Shakespeare fit into the drama of his day? Getting to know the work of Shakespeare's contemporaries offers an insight into Elizabethan and Jacobean preoccupations and the theatrical climate of the early modern period. This book provides an essential overview of some major dramatic works from their stage origins to today's screen productions. Each chapter includes: · a detailed analysis of a play by Shakespeare considered alongside a key work by one other significant playwright of the day (including The Merchant of Venice, Volpone, The Spanish Tragedy, Titus Andronicus, Othello, The Changeling, Romeo and Juliet, The Duchess of Malfi, Measure for Measure, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, The Taming of the Shrew, The Tragedy of Mariam, Doctor Faustus and Hamlet) · close reading of the text · discussion of early modern theatrical practices · a focus on one ground-breaking example of early modern drama on screen · suggestions for links with other early modern texts and further reading This book provides a route map to the very latest developments in early modern drama studies, fostering confident and independent thinking, making it an ideal introduction for students of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
Author : Associate Professor of Early Modern Performance Studies Pascale Aebischer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : English drama
ISBN : 1107250188
Pascale Aebischer provides the only comprehensive analysis of early modern drama on screen, expanding the scope of Shakespearean performance studies.
Author : Mark Netzloff,Bradley D. Ryner,Darlene Farabee
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611495133
This collection brings together essays on the topics of Shakespeare, theater history, and early English drama in performance by scholars influenced by the pioneering work of Lois Potter.
Author : Robert Henke
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781609383619
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 : Leslie C. Dunn
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030572082
Performing Disability in Early Modern English Drama investigates the cultural work done by early modern theatrical performances of disability. Proffering an expansive view of early modern disability in performance, the contributors suggest methodologies for finding and interpreting it in unexpected contexts. The volume also includes essays on disabled actors whose performances are changing the meanings of disability in Shakespeare for present-day audiences. By combining these two areas of scholarship, this text makes a unique intervention in early modern studies and disability studies alike. Ultimately, the volume generates a conversation that locates and theorizes the staging of particular disabilities within their historical and literary contexts while considering continuity and change in the performance of disability between the early modern period and our own.
Author : Douglas Bruster,Robert Weimann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134313716
This remarkable study shows how prologues ushered audience and actors through a rite of passage and how they can be seen to offer rich insight into what the early modern theatre was thought capable of achieving.