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Author : John Christian S. Poulsen,William Shakespeare
Publisher : Five Rivers Chapmanry
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 198827415X

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Shakespeare for Readers' Theatre by John Christian S. Poulsen,William Shakespeare Pdf

Shakespeare for Readers' Theatre, Volume 2 contains four scripts with some of the greatest villains from the world's best playwright. This book abridges into Readers' Theatre format the plays Othello, Richard III, King Lear, and Merry Wives of Windsor, with memorable lines the likes of Richard III who states straight up "I am determined to prove a villain." Volume 2 holds 20 minute and 45 minute versions of each play as well as a director's version with suggestions for making productions more audience ready. This book is built for individuals or groups who want to examine or perform Shakespeare in a condensed and dynamic format. Praise for Volume 1 This book perfectly meets my needs. I am using it this year with my middle school gifted students who must perform a 10-20 minute Shakespeare scene. I love the readers theatre approach and so do my students. - Amazon

Author : John Christian S. Poulsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 192740018X

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Shakespeare for Readers' Theatre by John Christian S. Poulsen Pdf

In the first title of a series, three of Shakespeare's most beloved plays are presented: "Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, " as well as "Midsummer Night's Dream, " and have been condensed while keeping Shakespeare's beautiful language.

Author : Jennifer L. Kroll
Publisher : Libraries Unlimited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2003-06-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781563089466

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Simply Shakespeare by Jennifer L. Kroll Pdf

Thirteen scripts from Weekly Reader's Read magazine feature age-appropriate play adaptations from some of Shakespeare's greatest and best-known works.

Author : John Brown
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136083891

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What is Theatre? by John Brown Pdf

This major introductory textbook is from one of the leading educators working in theatre today. What Is Theatre? will make its reader a better playgoer, responding more fully to performance, with a keener appreciation of all the resources of theatre-acting, design, direction, organization, theatre buildings, and audiences. By focusing on the best professional practice and the most helpful learning processes, Dr. Brown shows how to read a play-text and to see and hear its potential for performance. Throughout this book, suggestions are given for student essays and class discussions, to help both instructor and reader to clarify their thoughts on all aspects of theatre-going. While the main focus is on present-day theatre in North America, history is used to illuminate current practice. Theatres in Europe and Asia also feature in the discussion. A view is given of all contributors to performance, with special emphasis placed on actors and the plays they perform. This textbook is not tied to a few specific play-texts, but designed to be effective regardless of which play a student sees or reads. In Part Two, leading practitioners of different generations and cultural backgrounds describe their own work, providing a variety of perspectives on the contemporary theatre. All this is supplemented by nearly 100 black and white and color illustrations from productions, working drawings, and plans. This new text engages its readers in the realities of the theatre; it is up-to-date, comprehensive, and packed with practical advice for understanding how theatre works and how plays come alive in performance. John Russell Brown is professor of Theatre at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and has taught at a variety of colleges including New York and Stanford Universities. For 15 years he was an associate director of the National Theatre in London, and he has directed plays in many other theatres including Cincinnati Playhouse, the Empty Space in Seattle, and the Clurman Theatre in New York. Professor Brown has written extensively about theatre, especially about Shakespeare and contemporary theatre. He is editor of The Oxford Illustrated History of Theatre.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : On The Mark Press
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781770723573

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Shakespeare Shorts Gr. 4-6 Readers' Theatre by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jean-Christophe Mayer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107138339

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Shakespeare's Early Readers by Jean-Christophe Mayer Pdf

This is the first dedicated account of the ways in which Shakespeare's texts were read in the two centuries after they were produced. A close examination of rare, often unpublished material offers a reconsideration of the role of readers in the history of Shakespeare's rise to fame.

Author : Daniel Homer Rich,William Shakespeare
Publisher : Trieste Publishing
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0649647785

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The Globe Theater Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice. As Originally Performed by Shakespeare's Company. Edited for the Student with Introduction and Notes by Daniel Homer Rich,William Shakespeare Pdf

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. Our readers see the books the same way that their first readers did decades or a hundred or more years ago. Books from that period are often spoiled by imperfections that did not exist in the original. Imperfections could be in the form of blurred text, photographs, or missing pages. It is highly unlikely that this would occur with one of our books. Our extensive quality control ensures that the readers of Trieste Publishing's books will be delighted with their purchase. Our staff has thoroughly reviewed every page of all the books in the collection, repairing, or if necessary, rejecting titles that are not of the highest quality. This process ensures that the reader of one of Trieste Publishing's titles receives a volume that faithfully reproduces the original, and to the maximum degree possible, gives them the experience of owning the original work.We pride ourselves on not only creating a pathway to an extensive reservoir of books of the finest quality, but also providing value to every one of our readers. Generally, Trieste books are purchased singly - on demand, however they may also be purchased in bulk. Readers interested in bulk purchases are invited to contact us directly to enquire about our tailored bulk rates.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : On The Mark Press
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781770723566

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Shakespeare Shorts Gr. 2-4 Readers' Theatre by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kathy A. East,Rebecca L. Thomas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780313094569

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Across Cultures by Kathy A. East,Rebecca L. Thomas Pdf

Compiled by two experienced librarians, Across Cultures introduces you to more than 400 recent fiction and nonfiction multicultural resources for preschool through grade 6 and encourages you to make literature about diversity an integral part of your program of instruction. Arranged in thematic groupings (Identity and Self-Image, Family and Friends, Traditions, Exploring the Past in Diverse Communities, for example), this lively volume links diverse peoples, themes, and issues. It presents both annotations and practical advice on programming strategies. Connections are made to projects, graphic organizers, and activities.

Author : Diane Lapp,James Flood,Nancy Farnan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351760355

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Content Area Reading and Learning by Diane Lapp,James Flood,Nancy Farnan Pdf

How can teachers make content-area learning more accessible to their students? This text addresses instructional issues and provides a wealth of classroom strategies to help all middle and secondary teachers effectively enable their students to develop both content concepts and strategies for continued learning. The goal is to help teachers model, through excellent instruction, the importance of lifelong content-area learning. This working textbook provides students maximum interaction with the information, strategies, and examples presented in each chapter. This book is organized around five themes: Content Area Reading: An Overview The Teacher and the Text The Students The Instructional Program School Culture and Environment in Middle and High School Classrooms. Pedagogical features in each chapter include: a graphic organizer; a chapter overview, Think Before, Think While and Think After Reading Activities - which are designed to integrate students’ previous knowledge and experience with their new learnings about issues related to content area reading, literacy, and learning, and to serve as catalysts for thinking and discussions. This textbook is intended as a primary text for courses on middle and high school content area literacy and learning.

Author : Samiran Kumar Paul
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781649518699

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Drama and Sonnets of William Shakespeare vol. 2 by Samiran Kumar Paul Pdf

Shakespeare at best answers the needs of a particular generation in one country or another. Those needs vary: directors and actors, audiences and common readers, scholar-teachers and students do not necessarily seek the same aids for understanding. Shakespeare is an international possession, transcending nations, languages and professions. More than the Bible, which competes with the Koran, and with Indian and Chinese religious writings, Shakespeare is unique in the world’s culture, not just in the world’s theatres. Shakespeare’s literary and cultural authority is now so unquestioned that it has taken on an aura of historical inevitability and has enshrined the figure of the solitary author as the standard bearer of literary production. It is all the more important, then, to suggest that Shakespeare had a genius for timing—managing to be born in exactly the right place and at the right time to nourish his particular form of greatness. He regularly demonstrates and celebrates the ideas and ideals of Renaissance humanism, often—even in his tragic plays—presenting characters that embody the principles and ideals of Renaissance humanism, or people of tremendous self-knowledge and wit that are capable of self-expression and the practice of individual freedom. Shakespeare himself can be understood as the ultimate product of Renaissance humanism; he was an artist who openly practised and celebrated with a deep understanding of humanity and an uncanny ability for self-expression.

Author : Gillian Woods,Sarah Dustagheer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781474257480

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Stage Directions and Shakespearean Theatre by Gillian Woods,Sarah Dustagheer Pdf

What do 'stage directions' do in early modern drama? Who or what are they directing: action on the stage, or imagination via the page? Is the label 'stage direction' helpful or misleading? Do these 'directions' provide evidence of Renaissance playhouse practice? What happens when we put them at the centre of literary close readings of early modern plays? Stage Directions and Shakespearean Theatre investigates these problems through innovative research by a range of international experts. This collection of essays examines the creative possibilities of stage directions and and their implications for actors and audiences, readers and editors, historians and contemporary critics. Looking at the different ways stage directions make meaning, this volume provides new insights into a range of Renaissance plays.

Author : Judy E. Yordon
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019247662

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Experimental Theatre by Judy E. Yordon Pdf

Author : Lukas Erne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350080652

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The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Textual Studies by Lukas Erne Pdf

The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Textual Studies is a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on Shakespeare and textual studies by an international team of leading scholars. It contains chapters on all the major areas of current research, notably the Shakespeare manuscripts; the printed text and paratext in Shakespeare's early playbooks and poetry books; Shakespeare's place in the early modern book trade; Shakespeare's early readers, users, and collectors; the constitution and evolution of the Shakespeare canon from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century; Shakespeare's editors from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century; and the modern editorial reproduction of Shakespeare. The Handbook also devotes separate chapters to new directions and developments in research in the field, specifically in the areas of digital editing and of authorship attribution methodologies. In addition, the Companion contains various sections that provide non-specialists with practical help: an A-Z of key terms and concepts, a guide to research methods and problems, a chronology of major publications and events, an introduction to resources for study of the field, and a substantial annotated bibliography. The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Textual Studies is a reference work aimed at advanced undergraduate and graduate students as well as scholars and libraries, a guide to beginning or developing research in the field, an essential companion for all those interested in Shakespeare and textual studies.

Author : Tiffany Stern
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350051355

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Rethinking Theatrical Documents in Shakespeare’s England by Tiffany Stern Pdf

This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Rethinking Theatrical Documents brings together fifteen major scholars to analyse and theorise the documents, lost and found, that produced a play in Shakespeare's England. Showing how the playhouse frantically generated paratexts, it explores a rich variety of entangled documents, some known and some unknown: from before the play (drafts, casting lists, actors' parts); during the play (prologues, epilogues, title-boards); and after the play (playbooks, commonplace snippets, ballads) – though 'before', 'during' and 'after' intertwine in fascinating ways. By using collective intervention to rethink both theatre history and book history, it provides new ways of understanding plays critically, interpretatively, editorially, practically and textually.