Renaissance Acting Editions A Midsommer Nights Dreame A Midsummer Night S Dream

Author : William Shakespeare,Demitra Papadinis
Publisher : Demitra Papadinis
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Renaissance Acting Editions: A Midsommer Nights Dreame [A Midsummer Night's Dream] by William Shakespeare,Demitra Papadinis Pdf

Shakespeare's actors did not receive a copy of the entire script but instead worked from "cue-scripts" or "part scripts" which contained only the lines and cues for a single character. The Renaissance Acting Editions provide cue-scripts for those who wish to experiment with the early modern acting process. Each play in the series consists of a set of cue-scripts and an unabridged prompt-script in modern font edited and prepared from William Shakespeare's First Folio of 1623. A "platt" (a.k.a. a "plot," a running list of entrances, exits, and major stage business) and instructions for assembling a cue-script roll are also included. These editions are not direct transcriptions of the First Folio texts. Original spelling, punctuation, and verse lineation have been retained throughout, but minimal revision has been done (e.g., correction of missing entrances and exits, restoration of simultaneous dialogue, etc.) to make the scripts more user-friendly.

Author : Peter Brook
Publisher : Dramatic Publishing
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Drama
ISBN : 087129737X

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A Midsummer Night's Dream by Peter Brook Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Athens (Greece)
ISBN : NYPL:33433003252636

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A Midsummer-night's Dream by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798665652825

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A Play by William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream Annotated Edition by William Shakespeare Pdf

William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright and actor of the Renaissance era. He was an important member of the King's Men company of theatrical players from roughly 1594 onward.

Author : Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8184430019

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A Midsummer Night'S Dream by Shakespeare Pdf

A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of Shakespeare's strangest, quirkiest, and most delightful creations, and demonstrates both the extent of his learning and the expansiveness of his imagination. It is one of the most popular of his plays that marks a departure from his other works and of English Renaissance theatre. Though most of the conflict in the play stems from the troubles of romance, it is not truly a love story; it treats love as tragic, poignant, absurd and farcical, making the audience poke fun at the torments and afflictions of those in love. Shakespeare uses the motif of magic, both to embody the almost supernatural power of love (symbolized by the love potion) and to create a surreal world. Although the misuse of magic causes chaos, as when Puck mistakenly applies the love potion to Lysander's eyelids, magic ultimately resolves the play's tensions by restoring love to balance among the main Athenian characters. As the title suggests, dreams are an important theme; they are linked to the bizarre, magical mishaps in the forest, culminating in one enchanting yet ambiguous drama. However, the darker side of the play should not be ignored, nor the rapid mobility with which the actors transfer their amorous desires from one person to the other.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798665652849

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A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare Annotated Edition by William Shakespeare Pdf

William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright and actor of the Renaissance era. He was an important member of the King's Men company of theatrical players from roughly 1594 onward.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781474245210

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A Midsummer Night's Dream: Arden Performance Editions by William Shakespeare Pdf

For the first time, the world-renowned Arden Shakespeare is producing Performance Editions, aimed specifically for use in the rehearsal room. Published in association with the Shakespeare Institute, the text features easily accessible facing page notes – including short definitions of words, key textual variants, and guidance on metre and pronunciation; a larger font size for easier reading; space for writing notes and reduced punctuation aimed at the actor rather than the reader. With editorial expertise from the worlds of theatre and academia, the series has been developed in association with actors and drama students. The Series Editors are distinguished scholars Professor Michael Dobson and Dr Abigail Rokison and leading Shakespearean actor, Simon Russell Beale.

Author : Regina Buccola
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441179791

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A Midsummer Night's Dream by Regina Buccola Pdf

A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of Shakespeare's most widely studied comedies. This guide offers students an introduction to its critical and performance history, including notable stage productions, TV, and film versions as well as opera and ballet. It includes a keynote chapter outlining major areas of current research on the play and four new critical essays. Finally, a guide to critical, web-based and production-related resources and an annotated bibliography provide a basis for further individual research.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798665652948

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A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare Annotated and Illustrated Edition by William Shakespeare Pdf

William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright and actor of the Renaissance era. He was an important member of the King's Men company of theatrical players from roughly 1594 onward.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1124552130

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A midsummer night's dream by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044058246380

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A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: A midsummer nights dream (4th ed.) by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780198129288

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A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare Pdf

A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best-loved of Shakespeare's plays, and certainly the one that children are likely to encounter first; its mixture of aristocrats, workers, and fairies meeting in a wood outside Athens has a magic of its own. Simple and engaging on the surface, it isnonetheless a highly original and sophisticated work, remarkable for both its literary and its theatrical mastery. The fact that it is one of the very few of Shakespeare's plays not to draw on a narrative source suggests the degree to which it reflects his deepest imaginative concerns.In his Introduction, defining the play in both the literary and theatrical traditions to which it belongs, Peter Holland pays particular attention to dreams and dreamers, tracing the materials out of which Shakespeare constructs his world of night and shadows in the strange but enchanting amalgam hemakes of them. Both here and in the detailed commentary he draws freely upon the play's extensive performance history to illustrate the wide range of interpretations of which it is capable.

Author : Judith M. Kennedy,Richard F. Kennedy
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1999-10-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781847141750

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A Midsummer Night's Dream by Judith M. Kennedy,Richard F. Kennedy Pdf

This study traces the response to "A Midsummer Night's Dream" from Shakespeare's day to the present, including critics from Britain, Europe and America.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780393523164

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A Midsummer Night's Dream (Norton Critical Editions) by William Shakespeare Pdf

“In the pure poetry and intoxication of words, Shakespeare never rose higher than he rises in this play.” —G. K. Chesterton This Norton Critical Edition includes: • Shakespeare’s most popular comedy—with its unforgettable love triangles, woodland fairies, and magic—based on Grace Ioppolo’s conflated text (Q1 with F1 variants) and accompanied by her introduction, note on the text, and explanatory annotations. • Five illustrations. • Seven sources for the play, including those by Geoffrey Chaucer, Plutarch, and Lucius Apuleius. • Fifteen wide-ranging critical assessments, including ones by Jan Kott, Margo Hendricks, and Peter Brook. • Adaptations of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Robert Cox and Henry Purcell and Elkanah Settle. • A Selected Bibliography. About the Series Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format—annotated text, contexts, and criticism—helps students to better understand, analyze, and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780393631661

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A Midsummer Night's Dream (First International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) by William Shakespeare Pdf

“In the pure poetry and intoxication of words, Shakespeare never rose higher than he rises in this play.” —G. K. Chesterton This Norton Critical Edition includes: • Shakespeare’s most popular comedy—with its unforgettable love triangles, woodland fairies, and magic—based on Grace Ioppolo’s conflated text (Q1 with F1 variants) and accompanied by her introduction, note on the text, and explanatory annotations. • Five illustrations. • Seven sources for the play, including those by Geoffrey Chaucer, Plutarch, and Lucius Apuleius. • Fifteen wide-ranging critical assessments, including ones by Jan Kott, Margo Hendricks, and Peter Brook. • Adaptations of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Robert Cox and Henry Purcell and Elkanah Settle. • A Selected Bibliography. About the Series Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format—annotated text, contexts, and criticism—helps students to better understand, analyze, and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.