Shakespeare In Action

Author : Bella Merlin,Tina Packer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Theatrical companies
ISBN : 0367086840

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Shakespeare & Company by Bella Merlin,Tina Packer Pdf

Shakespeare & Company: When Action is Eloquence is the first comprehensive insight into this internationally acclaimed company founded in 1978 in Lenox, Massachusetts, by actor-director Tina Packer and voice pioneer Kristin Linklater, with the transformative power of Shakespeare's language at its heart. Why act Shakespeare? What's his relevance in the twenty-first century? Compelling answers to these questions lie at the center of this highly accessible journey into Shakespeare & Company's aesthetics and practice. Drawing on hitherto unpublished material - including notebooks, lectures, interviews, rehearsal diaries - and the Company's newly collated archive, this book provides insight into a working theatre company and sheds light on the role Shakespeare plays in our modern world. It also details: Shakespeare & Company's founding and early history Its aesthetic based on the Elizabethan theatre's principles of the Art of Rhetoric; Structure of the Verse; Voice and Movement; Clown; Fight; and Actor/Audience Relationship Vocational components of its Training Intensives Practical pedagogy of its Education programs Insights into its unique approaches to Performance Impact and legacy of its three lifetime founding members: Dennis Krausnick (Director of Training), Kevin G. Coleman (Director of Education) and Tina Packer (founding artistic director). Actors, directors, students, educators, scholars and theatre-lovers alike will find practical acting strategies, inspirational approaches to theatre making and lively insights into the sustaining of a unique and robust theatre company that has been thriving for over 40 years.

Author : Jaq Bessell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,5 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 : Irvin Leigh Matus
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780486320793

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Shakespeare, In Fact by Irvin Leigh Matus Pdf

Virtuoso presentation of available evidence of the Bard's life. "Written with wit and panache, this erudite tome dismantles the arguments claiming that someone other than Shakespeare wrote his plays." — Publishers Weekly.

Author : Dennis Kennedy,Yong Li Lan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-04
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521515528

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Shakespeare in Asia by Dennis Kennedy,Yong Li Lan Pdf

Contributors from a wide variety of backgrounds debate how and why Shakespeare has been used and reinvented in contemporary Asia.

Author : David Bevington
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780226044798

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This Wide and Universal Theater by David Bevington Pdf

This study examines how Shakespeare's plays have been transformed for the stage by the demands of theatrical spaces and staging conventions.

Author : Eric C. Brown,Estelle Rivier-Arnaud
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 54,7 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 : John Barton
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780307773913

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Playing Shakespeare by John Barton Pdf

Playing Shakespeare is the premier guide to understanding and appreciating the mastery of the world’s greatest playwright. Together with Royal Shakespeare Company actors–among them Patrick Stewart, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Ben Kingsley, and David Suchet–John Barton demonstrates how to adapt Elizabethan theater for the modern stage. The director begins by explicating Shakespeare’s verse and prose, speeches and soliloquies, and naturalistic and heightened language to discover the essence of his characters. In the second section, Barton and the actors explore nuance in Shakespearean theater, from evoking irony and ambiguity and striking the delicate balance of passion and profound intellectual thought, to finding new approaches to playing Shakespeare’s most controversial creation, Shylock, from The Merchant of Venice. A practical and essential guide, Playing Shakespeare will stand for years as the authoritative favorite among actors, scholars, teachers, and students.

Author : Susan Lynne Knutson
Publisher : Critical Perspectives on Canad
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0887548938

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Canadian Shakespeare by Susan Lynne Knutson Pdf

Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English sets out to make the best critical and scholarly work in the field readily available. The series publishes the work of scholars and crities who have traced the coming-into-prominence of a vibrant theatrical community in English Canada. --Book Jacket.

Author : Keith Gregor
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443867702

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Shakespeare and Tyranny by Keith Gregor Pdf

This book brings together a selection of essays on the reception and dissemination of Shakespeare’s plays in England and beyond from the 17th century to the present. Written from the perspective of a nation or cluster of nations in which Shakespeare has been used either to reflect, legitimize or challenge different versions of authoritarian rule, each of the chapters offers a picture of Shakespeare as unwitting commentator on some of the most significant and unsettling political events in Europe and elsewhere. Illustrating and analyzing changing attitudes to Shakespeare and his work in various tyrannical and post-tyrannical contexts in both Western and Eastern Europe, North Africa and South America, the volume provides insights into issues like the role of censorship and self-censorship in the revision and production of Shakespearean material; institutional controls on the dissemination and publication of Shakespeare’s work; assumptions and techniques in the staging of his plays; state intervention in the elaboration of a Shakespeare “canon”; the role of Shakespeare in the construction of identity under tyranny; and the pertinence or otherwise of the subversion/containment paradigm following events such as the collapse of communism and the so-called “Arab Spring”.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781623160333

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Shakespeare on Theatre by William Shakespeare Pdf

(Book). Shakespeare was a man of the theatre to his core, so it is no surprise that he repeatedly contemplated the nuts and bolts of his craft in his plays and poems. Shakespeare scholar Nick de Somogyi here draws together all the cherishable set pieces including "All the world's a stage," Hamlet's encounters with the Players, and Bottom's amateur theatricals along with many other oblique but no less revealing glances, and further insights into theatre practice by Shakespeare's contemporaries and rivals. De Somogyi's commentary takes us through the entire process of Shakespeare's theatrical production, from its casting and auditions, via rehearsals, costumes, and props, to its premiere and audience reception. Shakespeare on Theatre eavesdrops on the urgently whispered noises-off in the "tiring-house" and inhales the heady aroma of the Globe's first audiences.

Author : Simon Palfrey,Tiffany Stern
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 40,6 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 : Michael Goldman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781400854806

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Acting and Action in Shakespearean Tragedy by Michael Goldman Pdf

This intensely personal book develops a new approach to the study of action in drama. Michael Goldman eloquently applies a method based on a crucial fact: our experience of a play in the theater is almost exclusively our experience of acting. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : William Poel
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547349822

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Shakespeare in the Theatre by William Poel Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Shakespeare in the Theatre" by William Poel. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Scott Newstok
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780691227696

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How to Think Like Shakespeare by Scott Newstok Pdf

"This book offers a short, spirited defense of rhetoric and the liberal arts as catalysts for precision, invention, and empathy in today's world. The author, a professor of Shakespeare studies at a liberal arts college and a parent of school-age children, argues that high-stakes testing and a culture of assessment have altered how and what students are taught, as courses across the arts, humanities, and sciences increasingly are set aside to make room for joyless, mechanical reading and math instruction. Students have been robbed of a complete education, their imaginations stunted by this myopic focus on bare literacy and numeracy. Education is about thinking, Newstok argues, rather than the mastery of a set of rigidly defined skills, and the seemingly rigid pedagogy of the English Renaissance produced some of the most compelling and influential examples of liberated thinking. Each of the fourteen chapters explores an essential element of Shakespeare's world and work, aligns it with the ideas of other thinkers and writers in modern times, and suggests opportunities for further reading. Chapters on craft, technology, attention, freedom, and related topics combine past and present ideas about education to build a case for the value of the past, the pleasure of thinking, and the limitations of modern educational practices and prejudices"--

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Theater
ISBN : IND:30000070339803

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Shakespeare in Southern Africa by Anonim Pdf