Shakespeare In The Theatre The American Shakespeare Center

Author : Paul Menzer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781472585004

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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 Menzer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,7 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 : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BNC:1001933371

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The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Roberta Krensky Cooper
Publisher : Associated University Presses
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0918016886

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The American Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford 1955-1985 by Roberta Krensky Cooper Pdf

Author : Thomas Heywood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010153752

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The First and Second Parts of the Fair Maid of the West by Thomas Heywood Pdf

Author : Charles Ney
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781474239851

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Directing Shakespeare in America by Charles Ney Pdf

In this first substantive study of directing Shakespeare in the USA, Charles Ney compares and contrasts directors working at major companies across the country. Because of the complexities of directing Shakespeare for audiences today, a director's methods, values and biases are more readily perceptible in their work on Shakespeare than in more contemporary work. Directors disclose their interpretation of the text, their management of the various stages of production, how they go about supervising rehearsals and share tactics. This book will be useful to students wanting to develop skills, practitioners who want to learn from what other directors are doing, and scholars and students studying production practice and performance.

Author : Rick Elice
Publisher : Disney Editions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1423184343

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Peter and the Starcatcher (Acting Edition) by Rick Elice Pdf

The hilarious script for the Broadway play Peter and the Starcatcher is in the perfect format for performers and theater lovers. Actors will relish the opportunity to perfect the complex dialogue while fans of the play will delight in the humor and intricacies of the text.

Author : Ralph Alan Cohen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : PSU:000063194036

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ShakesFear and how to Cure it by Ralph Alan Cohen Pdf

This book is the new definitive guide to teaching students to love Shakespeare. ShakesFear proceeds from a very simple premise: William Shakespeare's plays were written for audiences to enjoy and not for readers to trudge through. Noted Shakespeare scholar Ralph Cohen's life is devoted to the notion that only through performance does the depth and complexity of Shakespeare's world comes to life. In this book, Dr. Cohen walks teachers through the process of making Shakespeare fun in the classroom by staging scenes and plays. He uses tricks and "ploys," arguments, and hypothetical questions to tease students into falling in love with the characters first, then the plays, and eventually the literature. - Publisher.

Author : Joel Berkowitz
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781587294082

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Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage by Joel Berkowitz Pdf

The professional Yiddish theatre started in 1876 in Eastern Europe; with the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881, masses of Eastern European Jews began moving westward, and New York—Manhattan’s Bowery and Second Avenue—soon became the world’s center of Yiddish theatre. At first the Yiddish repertoire revolved around comedies, operettas, and melodramas, but by the early 1890s America's Yiddish actors were wild about Shakespeare. In Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage, Joel Berkowitz knowledgeably and intelligently constructs the history of this unique theatrical culture. The Jewish King Lear of 1892 was a sensation. The year 1893 saw the beginning of a bevy of Yiddish versions of Hamlet; that year also saw the first Yiddish production of Othello. Romeo and Juliet inspired a wide variety of treatments. The Merchant of Venice was the first Shakespeare play published in Yiddish, and Jacob Adler received rave reviews as Shylock on Broadway in both 1903 and 1905. Berkowitz focuses on these five plays in his five chapters. His introduction provides an orientation to the Yiddish theatre district in New York as well as the larger picture of Shakespearean production and the American theatre scene, and his conclusion summarizes the significance of Shakespeare’s plays in Yiddish culture.

Author : Paul Menzer
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1575910772

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Inside Shakespeare by Paul Menzer Pdf

This collection of essays addresses questions peculiar to the Blackfriars and indoor playing: Did the Blackfriars have its own repertory? What was the place of the Blackfriars in the urban economy? What qualities did the Blackfriars share with the long tradition of great-hall performances? The essays span a range of approaches from performative to historical to textual.--Publisher's description.

Author : John Houseman,Jack Landau
Publisher : New York : Simon and Schuster
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : American Shakespeare Festival Theatre and Academy, Stratford, Conn
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004693128

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The American Shakespeare Festival by John Houseman,Jack Landau Pdf

Author : Glenn Loney,Glenn Meredith Loney,Patricia MacKay
Publisher : New York : Drama Book Specialists
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015031733242

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The Shakespeare Complex by Glenn Loney,Glenn Meredith Loney,Patricia MacKay Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Nick Hern Books
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015080881439

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Shakespeare Monologues for Men by William Shakespeare Pdf

Full of fresh speeches from Shakespeare's plays. Ideal for actors of all ages and experience.

Author : Duncan Macmillan,Jonny Donahoe
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780822235644

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Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan Macmillan,Jonny Donahoe Pdf

You’re six years old. Mum’s in hospital. Dad says she’s “done something stupid.” She finds it hard to be happy. So you start to make a list of everything that’s brilliant about the world. Everything that’s worth living for. 1. Ice cream. 2. Kung Fu movies. 3. Burning things. 4. Laughing so hard you shoot milk out your nose. 5. Construction cranes. 6. Me. You leave it on her pillow. You know she’s read it because she’s corrected your spelling. Soon, the list will take on a life of its own. A play about depression and the lengths we will go to for those we love.

Author : Joe Falocco
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781843842415

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Reimagining Shakespeare's Playhouse by Joe Falocco Pdf

Numerous attempts have been made in the modern and postmodern era to recreate the staging conventions of Shakespeare's theatre, from William Poel to the founders of the New Globe. This volume examines the work of these directors, analyzing their practical successes and failures; it also engages with the ideological critiques of early modern staging advanced by scholars such as W.B. Worthen and Ric Knowles. The author argues that rather than indulging in archaism for its own sake, the movement looked backward in a progressive attempt to address the challenges of the twentieth century. The book begins with a re-examination of the conventional view of Poel as an antiquarian crank. Subsequent chapters are devoted to Harley Granville Barker and Nugent Monck; the author argues that while Barker's major contribution was the dubious achievement of establishing the movement's reputation as an essentially literary phenomenon, Monck took the first tentative steps toward an architectural reimagining of modern performance space, an advance which led to later triumphs in early modern staging. The book than traces the sporadic and irregular development of Tyrone Guthrie's commitment to early modern practices. The final chapter looks at how competing historical theories of playhouse design influenced the construction of the Globe, while the conclusion discusses the ongoing potential of early modern staging in the new millennium.