Shakespeare And The Institution Of Theatre

Author : E. Sheen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230234529

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Shakespeare and the Institution of Theatre by E. Sheen Pdf

This innovative book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Shakespearean theatre, presented in a series of imaginative readings of plays from every period of the playwright's career, from Two Gentlemen of Verona and The Taming of the Shrew to King Lear and The Tempest , mapping a new approach to ideas of the theatre as an institution.

Author : Farah Karim Cooper,Tiffany Stern
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408174647

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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 : Colin Chambers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004-02-24
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781134616329

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Inside the Royal Shakespeare Company by Colin Chambers Pdf

This is the inside story of the Royal Shakespeare Company - a running historical critique of a major national institution and its location within British culture, as related by a writer who is uniquely placed to tell the tale. It describes what happened to a radical theatrical vision and explores British society's inability to sustain that vision. Spanning four decades and four artistic directors, Inside the Royal Shakespeare Company is a multi-layered chronicle that traces the company's history, offers investigation into its working methods, its repertoire, its people and its politics, and considers what the future holds for this bastion of high culture now in crisis. Inside the Royal Shakespeare Company is compelling reading for anyone who wishes to explore behind the scenes and consider the changing role of theatre in modern cultural life. It offers a timely analysis of the fight for creative expression within any artistic or cultural organisation, and a vital document of our times.

Author : Peter Thomson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136113567

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Shakespeare's Theatre by Peter Thomson Pdf

Reviews of the First Edition `...valuable and enjoyable reading for all studying Shakespeare's plays.' Following in the patternestablished by John Russell Brown for the excellent series (Theatre and Production Studies), he provides first an account of Shakespeare's company, then a study of three individual plays Twelfth Night, Hamlet and Macbeth as performed by the company. Peter Thomson writes in a crisp, sharp, enlivening style.' TLS '`...the best analysis yet of Elizabethan acting practices, excavated form the texts themselves rather than reconstructed on basis of one monolithic theory, and an essay on Hamlet that is a model of Critical intelligence and theatrical invention.' Yearbook of English Studies `Synthesizes the important facts and summarizes projects with a vigorous prose style, and expertly applies his experience in both practical drama and academic teaching to his discussion.' Review of English Studies

Author : W. B. Worthen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-23
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108498135

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Theatre, Technicity, Shakespeare by W. B. Worthen Pdf

Worthen uses contemporary Shakespeare performance to explore the technicity of theatre: its changing work as an intermedial technology.

Author : Michael Dobson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 52,9 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 : Martin Wiggins
Publisher : Oxford Shakespeare Topics
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0198711603

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Shakespeare and the Drama of His Time by Martin Wiggins Pdf

'Extremely informative... There are some nice touches here, and Wiggins is good on the effects of the cultural shifts that he describes, making telling comparisons such as: 'To the Elizabethans, Marlowe's plays must have had all the aural impact of a symphony orchestra taking over from a barrel-organ'.' -Modern Language Review'Oxford University Press offer a mix of engagingly written introductions to a variety of Topics intended largely for undergraduates. Each author has clearly been reading and listening to the most recent scholarship, but they wear their learning lightly.' -Ruth Morse, Times Literary Supplement'Provides a superb, concise, and approachable overview of Shakespeare's contextual place among the plays and playwrights of early modern London.' -Sixteenth Century JournalOxford Shakespeare Topics (General Editors Peter Holland and Stanley Wells) provide students, teachers, and interested readers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship, including some general anthologies relating to Shakespeare. This book examines the plays of Shakespeare in their context as part of English Renaissance drama as a whole. Separate chapters deal with the origins of that drama; tragedy; comedy; the artistic conventions of play-writing in the period; and tragicomedy. Throughout, Shakespeare's plays are shown to be intimately associated with those of his contemporaries, notably Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Kyd, George Chapman, Ben Jonson, John Marston, and John Fletcher.

Author : Michael Bristol,Kathleen McLuskie,Christopher Holmes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781134601202

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

First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Paul Yachnin,Patricia Badir
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317056492

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Shakespeare and the Cultures of Performance by Paul Yachnin,Patricia Badir Pdf

Theatrical performance, suggest the contributors to this volume, can be an unpredictable, individual experience as well as a communal, institutional or cultural event. The essays collected here use the tools of theatre history in their investigation into the phenomenology of the performance experience, yet they are also careful to consider the social, ideological and institutional contingencies that determine the production and reception of the living spectacle. Thus contributors combine a formalist interest in the affective and aesthetic dimensions of language and spectacle with an investment in the material cultures that both produced and received Shakespeare's plays. Six of the chapters focus on early modern cultures of performance, looking specifically at such topics as the performance of rusticity; the culture of credit; contract and performance; the cultivation of Englishness; religious ritual; and mourning and memory. Building upon and interrelating with the preceding essays, the last three chapters deal with Shakespeare and performance culture in modernity. They focus on themes including literary and theatrical performance anxiety; cultural iconicity; and the performance of Shakespearean lateness. This collection strives to bring better understanding to Shakespeare's imaginative investment in the relationship between theatrical production and the emotional, intellectual and cultural effects of performance broadly defined in social terms.

Author : John Tulloch
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781587296000

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Shakespeare and Chekhov in Production and Reception by John Tulloch Pdf

With a focus on the canonical institutions of Shakespeare and Chekhov, John Tulloch brings together for the first time new concepts of “the theatrical event” with live audience analysis. Using mainstream theatre productions from across the globe that were highly successful according to both critics and audiences, this book of case studies—ethnographies of production and reception—offers a combined cultural and media studies approach to analyzing theatre history, production, and audience. Tulloch positions these concepts and methodologies within a broader current theatrical debate between postmodernity and risk modernity. He also describes the continuing history of Shakespeare and Chekhov as a series of stories “currently and locally told” in the context of a blurring of academic genres that frames the two writers. Drawn from research conducted over nearly a decade in Australia, Britain, and the U.S., Shakespeare and Chekhov in Production and Reception will be of interest to students and scholars of theatre studies, media studies, and audience research.

Author : Brett Gamboa,Lawrence Switzky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000750928

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Shakespeare’s Things by Brett Gamboa,Lawrence Switzky Pdf

Floating daggers, enchanted handkerchiefs, supernatural storms, and moving statues have tantalized Shakespeare’s readers and audiences for centuries. The essays in Shakespeare’s Things: Shakespearean Theatre and the Non-Human World in History, Theory, and Performance renew attention to non-human influence and agency in the plays, exploring how Shakespeare anticipates new materialist thought, thing theory, and object studies while presenting accounts of intention, action, and expression that we have not yet noticed or named. By focusing on the things that populate the plays—from commodities to props, corpses to relics—they find that canonical Shakespeare, inventor of the human, gives way to a lesser-known figure, a chronicler of the ceaseless collaboration among persons, language, the stage, the object world, audiences, the weather, the earth, and the heavens.

Author : Richard Dutton
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118939321

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Shakespeare's Theatre: A History by Richard Dutton Pdf

Shakespeare’s Theatre: A History examines the theatre spaces used by William Shakespeare, and explores these spaces in relation to the social and political framework of the Elizabethan era. The text journeys from the performing spaces of the provincial inns, guild halls and houses of the gentry of the Bard’s early career, to the purpose-built outdoor playhouses of London, including the Globe, the Theatre, and the Curtain, and the royal courts of Elizabeth and James I. The author also discusses the players for whom Shakespeare wrote, and the positioning—or dispositioning—of audience members in relation to the stage. Widely and deeply researched, this fascinating volume is the first to draw on the most recent archaeological work on the remains of the Rose and the Globe, as well as continuing publications from the Records of Early English Drama project. The book also explores the contentious view that the ‘plot’ of The Seven Deadly Sins (part II), provides unprecedented insight into the working practices of Shakespeare’s company and includes a complete and modernized version of the ‘plot’. Throughout, the author relates the practicalities of early modern playing to the evolving systems of aristocratic patronage and royal licensing within which they developed Insightful and engaging, Shakespeare’s Theatre is ideal reading for undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars of literature and theatre studies.

Author : Jaq Bessell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474229753

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Shakespeare in Action by Jaq Bessell Pdf

- How do actors prepare a script of a Shakespeare play for performance? - Where do directors begin? - What do Shakespeare's plays offer a designer or choreographer? - How do the cast and creative team work together in rehearsals? With S

Author : Shirley S. Allen
Publisher : Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0819540293

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Samuel Phelps and Sadler's Wells Theatre by Shirley S. Allen Pdf

Author : Matthew Wagner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136661631

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Shakespeare, Theatre, and Time by Matthew Wagner Pdf

That Shakespeare thematized time thoroughly, almost obsessively, in his plays is well established: time is, among other things, a 'devourer' (Love's Labour's Lost), one who can untie knots (Twelfth Night), or, perhaps most famously, simply ‘out of joint’ (Hamlet). Yet most critical commentary on time and Shakespeare tends to incorporate little focus on time as an essential - if elusive - element of stage praxis. This book aims to fill that gap; Wagner's focus is specifically performative, asking after time as a stage phenomenon rather than a literary theme or poetic metaphor. His primary approach is phenomenological, as the book aims to describe how time operates on Shakespearean stages. Through philosophical, historiographical, dramaturgical, and performative perspectives, Wagner examines the ways in which theatrical activity generates a manifest presence of time, and he demonstrates Shakespeare’s acute awareness and manipulation of this phenomenon. Underpinning these investigations is the argument that theatrical time, and especially Shakespearean time, is rooted in temporal conflict and ‘thickness’ (the heightened sense of the present moment bearing the weight of both the past and the future). Throughout the book, Wagner traces the ways in which time transcends thematic and metaphorical functions, and forms an essential part of Shakespearean stage praxis.