Shakespeare And Amateur Performance

Author : Michael Dobson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781139496810

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Shakespeare and Amateur Performance by Michael Dobson Pdf

From the Hamlet acted on a galleon off Africa to the countless outdoor productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream that now defy each English summer, Shakespeare and Amateur Performance explores the unsung achievements of those outside the theatrical profession who have been determined to do Shakespeare themselves. Based on extensive research in previously unexplored archives, this generously illustrated and lively work of theatre history enriches our understanding of how and why Shakespeare's plays have mattered to generations of rude mechanicals and aristocratic dilettantes alike: from the days of the Theatres Royal to those of the Little Theatre Movement, from the pioneering Winter's Tale performed in eighteenth-century Salisbury to the Merchant of Venice performed by Allied prisoners for their Nazi captors, and from the how-to book which transforms Mercutio into Yankee Doodle to the Napoleonic counterspy who used Richard III as a tool of surveillance.

Author : Katherine Steele Brokaw
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031332678

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Shakespeare and Community Performance by Katherine Steele Brokaw Pdf

This book explores how productions of Shakespearean plays create meaning in specific communities, with special attention to issues of access, adaptation, and activism. Instead of focusing on large professional companies, it analyzes performances put on by community theatres and grassroots companies, and in applied drama projects. It looks at Shakespearean productions created by marginalized populations in Greater London, Harlem, and Los Angeles, a Hamlet staged in the remote Faroe Islands, and eco-theatre made in California’s Yosemite National Park. The book investigates why different communities perform Shakespeare, and what challenges, opportunities, and triumphs accompany the processes of theatrical production for both the artists and the communities in which they are embedded.

Author : Eric C. Brown,Estelle Rivier-Arnaud
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443865791

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Shakespeare in Performance by Eric C. Brown,Estelle Rivier-Arnaud Pdf

The fourteen essays included in this collection offer a range of contributions from both new and well-established scholars to the topic of Shakespeare and performance. From traditional studies of theatrical history and adaptation to explorations of Shakespeare’s plays in the circus, musical extravaganzas, the cinema, and drama at large, the collection embraces a number of performance spaces, times, and media. Shakespeare in Performance includes essays looking not only at sixteenth- and seventeenth-century stagings of the plays in England, but at productions of Shakespeare across time in the United States, France, Italy, Hungary, and Africa, underscoring the multiple embodiments and voices of Shakespeare’s art and including a variety of cultural approaches. The work is ultimately occupied with a number of questions generated by these continual iterations of Shakespeare. How can we write and trace what is ephemeral? To what purpose do we maintain the memory of past performances? How does the transmediation of Shakespeare inform the most basic interpretive acts? What motivates Shakespearean theatre across political borders? What kinds of meaning are produced by décor, movement, the actor’s virtuosity, the producer’s choices, or the audience’s response? Each essay thus, to some degree, describes and voices the now unseen.

Author : Andrew James Hartley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107048553

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Shakespeare on the University Stage by Andrew James Hartley Pdf

"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 : Diana Brydon,Irene Rima Makaryk
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0802036554

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Shakespeare in Canada by Diana Brydon,Irene Rima Makaryk Pdf

Is there a distinctly Canadian Shakespeare? What is the status and function of Shakespeare in various locations within the nation: at Stratford, on CBC radio, in regional and university theatres, in Canadian drama and popular culture? Shakespeare in Canada brings insights from a little explored but extensive archive to contemporary debates about the cultural uses of Shakespeare and what it means to be Canadian. Canada's long history of Shakespeare productions and reception, including adaptations, literary reworkings, and parodies, is analysed and contextualized within the four sections of the book. A timely addition to the growing field that studies the transnational reach of Shakespeare across cultures, this collection examines the political and cultural agendas invoked not only by Shakespeare's plays, but also by his very name. In part a historical and regional survey of Shakespeare in performance, adaptation, and criticism, this is the first work to engage Shakespeare with distinctly Canadian debates addressing nationalism, separatism, cultural appropriation, cultural nationalism, feminism, and postcolonialism.

Author : Peter Kirwan,Kathryn Prince
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350080690

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The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance by Peter Kirwan,Kathryn Prince Pdf

The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance is a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on Shakespeare and performance studies by an international team of leading scholars. It contains chapters on the key methods and questions surrounding the performance event, the audience, and the archive – the primary sources on which performance studies draws. It identifies the recurring trends and fruitful lines of inquiry that are generating the most urgent work in the field, but also contextualises these within the histories and methods on which researchers build. A central section of research-focused essays offers case studies of present areas of enquiry, from new approaches to space, bodies and language to work on the technologies of remediation and original practices, from consideration of fandoms and the cultural capital invested in Shakespeare and his contemporaries to political and ethical interventions in performance practice. A distinctive feature of the volume is a curated section focusing on practitioners, in which leading directors, writers, actors, producers, and other theatre professionals comment on Shakespeare in performance and what they see as the key areas, challenges and provocations for researchers to explore. In addition, the Handbook 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 Contemporary Performance 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, and an essential companion for all those interested in Shakespeare and performance.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1900
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:503867010

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Shakespeare's As You Like it Adapted for Amateur Performance in Girls' Schools by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Sally Barnden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108487931

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Still Shakespeare and the Photography of Performance by Sally Barnden Pdf

Examines both theatrical and staged art photographs, demonstrating their role in fixing and unfixing Shakespearean authority.

Author : David Grote
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002-07-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313012747

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The Best Actors in the World by David Grote Pdf

Shakespeare knew actors because he was one. The first book-length study of its kind, this volume investigates Shakespeare as a member of his acting company, dating and casting all the plays they presented from 1594 to 1614, and exploring the effects of actors on his writing. Much has been written about Shakespeare and a great deal is known about the Elizabethan theater. Yet little has been done to examine Shakespeare in relation to his acting company. This book casts light on Shakespeare's life in drama and the creation and staging of his plays. More precisely than any other work, it establishes the dates for his company's productions, exploring the varied and profound influences actors had on the works of Renaissance dramatists, and giving us a unique look at the man who knew his actors best of all. As a member of the newly organized Chamberlain's Men, a company that rose to fame in the London theater, Shakespeare experienced the numerous crises, both personal and political, that nearly destroyed the company at the construction of the Globe. Grote describes the company's reorganization as the King's Men, which led to the writing of Shakespeare's great tragedies, as well as the trials of the plague years, Shakespeare's retirement from the stage, the development of writers to replace him, and the burning of the Globe.

Author : Peter Holland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2003-10-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521827272

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Shakespeare Survey: Volume 56, Shakespeare and Comedy by Peter Holland Pdf

Published with academic researchers and graduate students in mind, this volume of the 'Shakespeare Survey' presents a number of contributions on the theme of Shakespeare's comedies, as well as the comedy in Shakespeare's other works.

Author : Jan Wozniak
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781474234863

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The Politics of Performing Shakespeare for Young People by Jan Wozniak Pdf

This book examines performance projects of Shakespeare's plays for young people in terms of their value for their young audiences. Using interviews with theatre workers and workshops with young people, the book argues that it is by trusting young people's experience of performances, rather than promoting a range of pre-determined textual understandings of the plays, that they might gain most benefit. It argues that by privileging the meanings young people make of Shakespeare, new and exciting interpretations of his work might be found.

Author : Stuart Sillars
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351963497

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The Shakespearean International Yearbook by Stuart Sillars Pdf

This eighth volume of The Shakespearean International Yearbook presents a special section on 'European Shakespeares', proceeding from the claim that Shakespeare's literary craft was not just native English or British, but was filtered and fashioned through a Renaissance awareness that needs to be recognized as European, and that has had effects and afterlives across the Continent. Guest editors Ton Hoenselaars and Clara Calvo have constructed this section to highlight both how the spread of 'Shakespeare' throughout Europe has brought together the energies of a wide variety of European cultures across several centuries, and how the inclusion of Shakespeare in European culture has been not only a European but also a world affair. The Shakespearean International Yearbook continues to provide an annual survey of important issues and developments in contemporary Shakespeare studies. Contributors to this issue come from the US and the UK, Spain, Switzerland and South Africa, Canada, The Netherlands, India, Portugal, Greece, France, and Hungary. In addition to the section on European Shakespeares, this volume includes essays on the genre of romance, issues of character, and other topics.

Author : W. B. Worthen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107055957

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Shakespeare Performance Studies by W. B. Worthen Pdf

This book looks at Shakespeare through performance, capturing the dialogue between performance, Shakespeare, and contemporary concerns in the humanities.

Author : James C. Bulman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199687169

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The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Performance by James C. Bulman Pdf

The series statement "Oxford handbooks to Shakespeare" taken from dust jacket.

Author : C. Dente,S. Soncini
Publisher : Springer
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137311344

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Shakespeare and Conflict by C. Dente,S. Soncini Pdf

What has been the role played by principles, patterns and situations of conflict in the construction of Shakespeare's myth, and in its European and then global spread? The fascinatingly complex picture that emerges from this collection provides new insight into Shakespeare's unique position in world literature and culture.