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Who Hears in Shakespeare?

Author : Laury Magnus,Walter W. Cannon
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611474749

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Who Hears in Shakespeare? by Laury Magnus,Walter W. Cannon Pdf

This volume, examining the ways in which Shakespeare's plays are designed for hearers as well as spectators, has been prompted by recent explorations of the auditory dimension of early modern drama by such scholars as Andrew Gurr, Bruce Smith, and James Hirsh. To look at the dynamics of hearing in Shakespeare's plays involves a paradigm shift that changes how we understand virtually everything about them, from the architecture of the buildings, to playing spaces, to blocking, and to larger interpretative issues, including our understanding of character based on players' responses to what they hear, mishear, or refuse to hear. Who Hears in Shakespeare? Auditory Worlds on Stage and Screen is comprised of three sections on Shakespeare's texts and performance history: "The Poetics of Hearing and the Early Modern Stage"; "Metahearing: Hearing, Knowing, and Audiences, Onstage and Off"; and "Transhearing: Hearing, Whispering, Overhearing, and Eavesdropping in Film and Other Media." Chapters by noted scholars explore the complex reactions and interactions of onstage and offstage audiences and show how Shakespearean stagecraft, actualized on stage and adapted on screen, revolves around various situations and conventions of hearing--soliloquies, asides, avesdropping, overhearing, and stage whispers. In short, Who Hears in Shakespeare? enunciates Shakespeare's nuanced, powerful stagecraft of hearing. The volume ends with Stephen Booth's afterword, his inspiring meditation on hearing that considers Shakespearean "audiences" and their responses to what they hear--or don't hear--in Shakespeare's plays.

Shakespeare’s Auditory Worlds

Author : Laury Magnus,Walter W. Cannon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781683932017

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Shakespeare’s Auditory Worlds by Laury Magnus,Walter W. Cannon Pdf

Inspired by the verbal exuberance and richness of all that can be heard by audiences both on and off Shakespeare’s stages, Shakespeare’s Auditory Worlds examines such special listening situations as overhearing, eavesdropping, and asides. It breaks new ground by exploring the complex relationships between sound and sight, dialogue and blocking, dialects and other languages, re-voicings, and, finally, nonverbal or metaverbal relationships inherent in noise, sounds, and music, staging interstices that have been largely overlooked in the critical literature on aurality in Shakespeare. Its contributors include David Bevington, Ralph Alan Cohen, Steve Urkowitz, and Leslie Dunn, and, in a concluding “Virtual Roundtable” section, six seasoned repertory actors of the American Shakespeare Center as well, who discuss their nuanced hearing experiences on stage. Their “hearing” invites us to understand the multiple dimensions of Shakespeare’s auditory world from the vantage point of actors who are listening “in the round” to what they hear from their onstage interlocutors, from offstage and backstage cues, from the musicians’ galleries, and often most interestingly, from their audiences.

Shakespeare's Auditory Worlds

Author : Laury Magnus,Walter W. Cannon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1683932021

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Shakespeare's Auditory Worlds by Laury Magnus,Walter W. Cannon Pdf

Shakespeare's Auditory Worlds examines special listening situations like overhearing, eavesdropping, and asides; it explores complex relationships between sound and sight, dialogue and blocking, non-English languages, and non-verbal relationships inherent in noise, sounds, and music, ending with a discussion with ASC Actors.

Who Hears in Shakespeare?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Listening in literature
ISBN : 6613636452

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Who Hears in Shakespeare? by Anonim Pdf

This volume examines the ways in which Shakespeare's plays are designed for hearers as well as spectators and shows how Shakespeare's stagecraft, actualized both on stage and screen, revolves around various hearing conventions such as soliloquies, asides, eavesdropping, overhearing, and stage whispers. In short, Who Hears in Shakespeare? enunciates Shakespeare's nuanced, powerful stagecraft of hearing.

Performing Shakespearean Appropriations

Author : Darlena Ciraulo,Matthew Kozusko,Robert Sawyer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-29
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781683933618

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Performing Shakespearean Appropriations by Darlena Ciraulo,Matthew Kozusko,Robert Sawyer Pdf

This collection of essays brings together innovative scholarship on Shakespeare’s afterlives in tribute to Christy Desmet. Contributors explore the production and consumption of Shakespeare in acts of adaptation and appropriation across a range of performance topics, from book history to the novel to television, cinema, and digital media.

Shakespeare and the Digital World

Author : Christie Carson,Peter Kirwan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107064362

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Shakespeare and the Digital World by Christie Carson,Peter Kirwan Pdf

This collection brings the broad discussion about digital humanities into focus through Shakespeare in research, teaching, publishing and performance.

Shakespeare and the Play Scripts of Private Prayer

Author : Ceri Sullivan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192599261

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Shakespeare and the Play Scripts of Private Prayer by Ceri Sullivan Pdf

Early modern private prayer is skilled at narrative and drama. In manuals and sermons on how to pray, collections of model prayers, scholarly treatises about biblical petitions, and popular tracts about life crises prompting calls to God, prayer is valued as a powerful agent of change. Model prayers create stories about people in distinct ranks and jobs, with concrete details about real-life situations. These characters may act in play-lets, or appear in the middle of difficulties, or voice a suite of petitions from all sides of a conflict. Thinking of early modern private prayers as dramatic dialogues rather than lyric monologues raises the question of whether play-going and praying were mutually reinforcing practices. Could dramatists deploying prayer on stage rely on having audience members who were already expert at making up roles for themselves in prayer, and who expected their petitions to have the power to intervene in major events? Does prayer's focus on cause and effect structure the historiography of Shakespeare's Henry VI, Richard III, Richard II, Henry V, and Henry VIII?

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Author : Evelyn Gajowski,Phyllis Rackin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317698340

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The Merry Wives of Windsor by Evelyn Gajowski,Phyllis Rackin Pdf

The Merry Wives of Windsor has recently experienced a resurgence of critical interest. At times considered one of Shakespeare’s weaker plays, it is often dismissed or marginalized; however, developments in feminist, ecocritical and new historicist criticism have opened up new perspectives and this collection of 18 essays by top Shakespeare scholars sheds fresh light on the play. The detailed introduction by Phyllis Rackin and Evelyn Gajowski provides a historical survey of the play and ties into an evolving critical and cultural context. The book’s sections look in turn at female community/female agency; theatrical alternatives; social and theatrical contexts; desire/sexuality; nature and performance to provide a contemporary critical analysis of the play.

Like a King

Author : Christina Gutierrez-Dennehy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781683932550

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Like a King by Christina Gutierrez-Dennehy Pdf

Like a King: Casting Shakespeare’s Histories for Citizens and Subjects is a dual examination of Shakespeare’s history plays in their early modern production contexts and of the ways the histories can speak directly to twenty-first-century American political and social concerns. Author and production director Christina Gutierrez-Dennehy examines how strategic doubled and re-gendered casting can animate the underlying questions of Richard II, Henry V, and King John in vital and immediate ways for American audiences. Examining evidence from both the archive and the rehearsal room, Gutierrez-Dennehy explores the texts as repositories for dialogues about power, gender, identity, nationhood, and leadership. With the American political system as its backdrop, Like a King argues that productions of Shakespeare’s histories can interrogate and explore the relationships between citizens, subjects, and their leaders.

Multisensory Shakespeare and Specialized Communities

Author : Sheila T. Cavanagh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350296435

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Multisensory Shakespeare and Specialized Communities by Sheila T. Cavanagh Pdf

How can theatre and Shakespearean performance be used with different communities to assist personal growth and development, while advancing social justice goals? Employing an integrative approach that draws from science, actor training, therapeutical practices and current research on the senses, this study reveals the work being done by drama practitioners with a range of specialized populations, such as incarcerated people, neurodiverse individuals, those with physical or emotional disabilities, veterans, people experiencing homelessness and many others. With insights drawn from visits to numerous international programs, it argues that these endeavors succeed when they engage multiple human senses and incorporate kinesthetic learning, thereby tapping into the diverse benefits associated with artistic, movement and mindfulness practices. Neither theatre nor Shakespeare is universally beneficial, but the syncretic practices described in this book offer tools for physical, emotional and collaborative undertakings that assist personal growth and development, while advancing social justice goals. Among the practitioners and companies whose work is examined here are programs from the Shakespeare in Prison Network, the International Opera Theater, Blue Apple Theatre, Flute Theatre, DeCruit and Feast of Crispian programs for veterans, Extant Theatre and prison programs in Kolkata and Mysore, India.

Venus’s Palace

Author : Reut Barzilai
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-20
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781000849523

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Venus’s Palace by Reut Barzilai Pdf

This book lays bare the dialogue between Shakespeare and critics of the stage and positions it as part of an ongoing cultural, ethical, and psychological debate about the effects of performance on actors and on spectators. In so doing, the book makes a substantial contribution both to the study of representations of theatre in Shakespeare’s plays and to the understanding of ethical concerns about acting and spectating—then, and now. The book opens with a comprehensive and coherent analysis of the main early modern English anxieties about theater and its power. These are read against twentieth- and twenty-first-century theories of acting, interviews with actors, and research into the effects of media representation on spectator behaviour, all of which demonstrate the lingering relevance of antitheatrical claims and the personal and philosophical implications of acting and spectating. The main part of the book reveals Shakespeare’s responses to major antitheatrical claims about the powerful effects of poetry, music, playacting, and playgoing. It also demonstrates the evolution of Shakespeare’s view of these claims over the course of his career: from light-hearted parody in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, through systematic contemplation in Hamlet, to acceptance and dramatization in The Tempest. This study will be of great interest to scholars and students of theater, English literature, history, and culture.

Double Shakespeares

Author : Cary M. Mazer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611478440

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Double Shakespeares by Cary M. Mazer Pdf

Double Shakespeares examines contemporary performances of Shakespeare plays that employ the “emotional realist” traditions of acting that were codified by Stanislavski over a century ago. These performances recognize the inescapable doubleness of realism: that the actor may aspire to be the character but can never fully do so. This doubleness troubled the late-nineteenth-century actors and theorists who first formulated realist modes of acting; and it equally troubles theorists and theatre practitioners today. The book first looks at contemporary performances that foreground the doubleness of the actor’s body, particularly through cross-dressing. It then examines narratives of Shakespearean rehearsal—both fictional representations of rehearsal in film and video, and eye-witness narratives of actual rehearsals—and how they show us the process by which the actor does or does not “become” the character. And, finally, it looks at modern performances that “frame” Shakespeare’s play as a play-within-a-play, showing the audience both the character in the Shakespeare play-within and the actor in the frame-play acting that character.

Shakespeare and the Soliloquy in Early Modern English Drama

Author : A. D. Cousins,Daniel Derrin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107172548

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Shakespeare and the Soliloquy in Early Modern English Drama by A. D. Cousins,Daniel Derrin Pdf

This is the first book to provide students and scholars with a truly comprehensive guide to the early modern soliloquy.

The Text, the Play, and the Globe

Author : Joseph Candido
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611478228

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The Text, the Play, and the Globe by Joseph Candido Pdf

The purpose of this book is to honor the scholarly legacy of Charles R. Forker with a series of essays that address the problem of literary influence in original ways and from a variety of perspectives. The emphasis throughout is on the sort of careful, exhaustive, evidence-based scholarship to which Forker dedicated his entire professional life. Although wide-ranging and various by design, the essays in this book never lose sight of three discrete yet overlapping areas of literary inquiry that create a unity of perspective amid the diversity of approaches: 1) the formation of play texts, textual analysis, and editorial practice; 2) performance history and the material playing conditions from Shakespeare’s time to the present, including film as well as stage representations; and 3) the world, both cultural and literary, in which Shakespeare and his contemporaries worked and to which they bequeathed an artistic legacy that continues to be re-interpreted and re-defined by a whole new set of cultural and literary pressures. Eschewing any single, predetermined ideological perspective, the essays in this book call our attention to how the simplest questions or observations can open up provocative and unexpected scholarly vistas. In so doing, they invite us into a subtly re-configured world of literary influence that draws us into new, often unexpected, ways of seeing and understanding the familiar.

Designers' Shakespeare

Author : John Russell Brown,Stephen Di Benedetto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-05
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781317911784

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Designers' Shakespeare by John Russell Brown,Stephen Di Benedetto Pdf

Theatre Design involves everything seen on stage: not only scenery but costumes, wigs, makeup, properties, lighting, sound, even the shape and material of the stage itself. Designers’ Shakespeare presents and analyses the work of a half-dozen leading practitioners of this specialist art. By focusing specifically on their Shakespearean work, it also offers a fresh, exciting perspective on some of the best-known drama of all time. Shakespeare’s plays offer an unusual range of opportunities to designers. As they were written for a theatre which gave no opportunity for scenic support or embellishment, designers are freed from any compulsion to imitate original practices. This has resulted in the extraordinarily diverse range of works presented in this volume, which considers among others the work of Josef Svoboda, Karl-Ernst Herrmann, Ming Cho Lee, Alison Chitty, Robert Wilson, Societas Raffaello Sanzio, Filter Theatre, Catherine Zuber, John Bury , Christopher Morley, Ralph Koltai and Sean Kenny. Designers’ Shakespeare joins Actors’ Shakespeare and Directors’ Shakespeare as essential reading for lovers of Shakespeare from theatre-goers and students to directors and theatre designers.