Shakespeare As Prompter

Author : Murray Cox,Alice Theilgaard
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1853021598

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Shakespeare as Prompter by Murray Cox,Alice Theilgaard Pdf

Prompting is the thematic thread that pervades the pages of this book. Its primary connotation is that of the prompter who is urgently called into action, at moments of anxiety, when narrative begins to fail. The central dynamic issue concerns the amending imagination as a prompting resource which, through creativity and the aesthetic imperative, can be invoked in this therapeutic space when the patient - through fear, resistance or distraction - is unable to continue with his story. Psychotherapy can be regarded as a process in which the patient is enabled to do for himself what he cannot do on his own. Shakespeare - as the spokesman for all other poets and dramatists - prompts the therapist in the incessant search for those resonant rhythms and mutative metaphors which augment empathy and make for deeper communication and which also facilitates transference interpretation and resolution. The cadence of the spoken word and the different laminations of silence always call for more finely tuned attentiveness than the therapist, unprompted, can offer. The authors show how Shakespeare can prompt therapeutic engagement with "inaccessible" patients who might otherwise be out of therapeutic reach. At the same time, they demonstrate that the clinical, off-stage world of therapy can also prompt the work of the actor in his on-stage search for representational precision.

Author : Peter Holland,Director Shakespeare Institute and Professor of Shakespeare Studies Peter Holland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521863803

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Shakespeare, Memory and Performance by Peter Holland,Director Shakespeare Institute and Professor of Shakespeare Studies Peter Holland Pdf

This collection by leading Shakespeare scholars, first published in 2006, brings together memory and performance.

Author : Louise McConnell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 157958215X

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Dictionary of Shakespeare by Louise McConnell Pdf

William Shakespeare is acknowledged to be the greatest writer in the English language. This new dictionary includes more than 1,500 entries that cover: Shakespeare's theatre and stagecraft; Elizabethan history and society; all of Shakespeare's plays and poems; his main characters; and terms used in critical reviews.Each of the encyclopedic entries provides a clear explanation of the term, its origins, relevance and use. Dictionary of Shakespeare has been carefully written in a non-technical way to insure that all levels of student and researcher will find the entries clear and uncomplicated.The entries help explain the terms used in Shakespeare's texts and in their execution and so provides the historical context required to give the reader a full background of the term. This feature sets the dictionary apart from others on the same subject that concentrate either on single plays or on the biographies of his characters. No other title explains so great a range of theatrical, historical, and"Shakespearean" terms.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1777
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1055918973

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Othello by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Brian N. Tebbutt
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532693144

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Pastor John by Brian N. Tebbutt Pdf

Puzzled by John? This exciting book illuminates the Gospel in a completely fresh way. Reading and working with it will deepen fellowship and skill in pastoral care. The text is mined for gems of insight into ourselves, and as a rich resource of ample illustrative material for preachers and teachers. Poetry, prose, and hymn references abound. Pastor John elucidates the first four chapters of John's Gospel, presenting new insights into the text in a way that involves us in the story. When we read, we come nearer to Jesus, who is always with us anyway! A guide is provided for understanding ourselves, experienced by sharing with each other. Precise guidance is given for workshops, where all contribute something of themselves in the light of the text. This experience of John's Gospel is illuminated using the latest way of reading the text. What the story means is conveyed in detailed Bible study. It becomes real for us, and this reality is explored by understanding the process of reading and observing our reactions to the text. John's Christ becomes central to who we are.

Author : Tiffany Stern
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198186816

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Rehearsal from Shakespeare to Sheridan by Tiffany Stern Pdf

Up until now, facts about theatrical rehearsal have been considered irrecoverable. But in this groundbreaking new study, Tiffany Stern gathers together two centuries' worth of historical material which shows how actors received and responded to their parts, and how rehearsal affected thecreation and revision of plays. Plotting theatrical change over time, from the mid-sixteenth to the late eighteenth century, this book will revolutionize the fields of textual and theatre history alike.

Author : Bill Kincaid
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351136167

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Performing Shakespeare Unrehearsed by Bill Kincaid Pdf

Performing Shakespeare Unrehearsed: A Practical Guide to Acting and Producing Spontaneous Shakespeare outlines how Shakespeare’s plays can be performed effectively without rehearsal, if all the actors understand a set of performance guidelines and put them into practice. Each chapter is devoted to a specific guideline, demonstrating through examples how it can be applied to pieces of text from Shakespeare’s First Folio, how it creates blocking and stage business, and how it enhances story clarity. Once the guidelines have been established, practical means of production are discussed, providing the reader with sufficient step-by-step instruction to prepare for Unrehearsed performances. This book is written for the actor and performer.

Author : Margaret Webster
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780486311326

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Shakespeare Without Tears by Margaret Webster Pdf

Covers Elizabethan theater, later changes in theatrical practice, scholarly interpretations, staging problems, analysis of principal characters. "Not an obscure or otherwise dull page in the book." — N.Y. Times Book Review.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The New Shakespeare, Richard Ii by Anonim Pdf

Author : Daniel E. Harmon
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781680488159

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William Shakespeare by Daniel E. Harmon Pdf

The "bard of Avon," as he is remembered, earned popularity and fortune during his lifetime more than four hundred years ago. Today, William Shakespeare is more famous than ever. He wrote or cowrote thirty-eight stage comedies, tragedies, and historical dramas. He also penned many romantic poems. Some of the world's best-known literary quotations come from his writings. Young readers will discover why many historians consider him the greatest playwright of all time.

Author : Alfred W. Pollard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108015349

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Shakespeare's Fight with the Pirates and the Problems of the Transmission of His Text by Alfred W. Pollard Pdf

First published in 1915, this controversial textual analysis overturned earlier views about the reliability of the Quartos of Shakespeare's plays.

Author : Danielle Rosvally,Donovan Sherman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781350318496

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Early Modern Liveness by Danielle Rosvally,Donovan Sherman Pdf

What does it mean for early modern theatre to be 'live'? How have audiences over time experienced a sense of 'liveness'? This collection extends discussions of liveness to works from the 16th and 17th centuries, both in their initial incarnations and contemporary adaptations. Drawing on theatre and performance studies, as well as media theory, this volume uses the concept of liveness to consider how early modern theatre – including non-Western and non-traditional performance – employs embodiment, materiality, temporality and perception to impress on its audience a sensation of presence. The volume's contributors adopt varying approaches and cover a range of topics from material and textual studies, to early modern rehearsal methods, to digital and VR theatre, to the legacy of Shakespearean performance in global theatrical repertoires. This collection uses both early modern and contemporary performance practices to challenge our understanding of live performance. Productions and adaptions discussed include the Royal Shakespeare Company's Dream (2021), CREW's Hands on Hamlet (2017), Kit Monkman's Macbeth (2018), Arslanköy Theatre Company's Kraliçe Lear (2019), and a season of productions by the Original Practice Shakespeare Festival. Early Modern Liveness looks beyond theatrical events as primary sites of interpretive authority and examines the intimate and ephemeral experience of encountering early modern theatre in its diverse manifestations.

Author : Simon Palfrey,Tiffany Stern
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199272051

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Shakespeare in Parts by Simon Palfrey,Tiffany Stern Pdf

A truly groundbreaking collaboration of original theatre history with exciting literary criticism, Shakespeare in Parts is the first book fully to explore the original form in which Shakespeare's drama overwhelmingly circulated. This was not the full play-text; it was not the public performance. It was the actor's part, consisting of the bare cues and speeches of each individual role. With group rehearsals rare or non-existent, the cued part alone had to furnish the actor with his character. But each such part-text was riddled with gaps and uncertainties. The actor knew what he was going to say, but not necessarily when, or why, or to whom; he may have known next to nothing of any other part. Starting with a comprehensive history of the part in early modern theatre, Simon Palfrey and Tiffany Stern's work provides a unique keyhole onto hitherto forgotten practices and techniques. It not only discovers a newly active, choice-ridden actor, but a new Shakespeare.

Author : Paul Menzer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781472584991

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Shakespeare in the Theatre: The American Shakespeare Center by Paul Menzer Pdf

The original Blackfriars closed its doors in the 1640s, ending over half-a-century of performances by men and boys. In 2001, in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, it opened once again. The reconstructed Blackfriars, home to the American Shakespeare Center, represents an old playhouse for the new millennium and therefore symbolically registers the permanent revolution in the performance of Shakespeare. Time and again, the industry refreshes its practices by rediscovering its own history. This book assesses how one American company has capitalised on history and in so doing has forged one of its own to become a major influence in contemporary Shakespearean theatre.

Author : Paul Barry
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786459872

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A Lifetime with Shakespeare by Paul Barry Pdf

Written by the only American to direct and fight-choreograph all of Shakespeare's plays, this text represents an expert and practical guide to the Bard's oeuvre. From the Henry VI plays through The Tempest, each play is explored in its full theatrical complexity, with particular attention paid to directorial and acting challenges, character quirks and development, and the particularities of Shakespearean language. Directing successes are recounted, but the failures are not shied away from, making this work indispensable for anyone interested in producing plays by Shakespeare.