Shakespeare S Authentic Performance Texts

Author : Graham Watts
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780786497201

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Shakespeare's Authentic Performance Texts by Graham Watts Pdf

When we pick up a copy of a Shakespeare play, we assume that we hold in our hands an original record of his writing. We don't. Present-day printings are an editor's often subjective version of the script. Around 25 percent of any Shakespeare play will have been altered, and this creates an enormous amount of confusion. The only authentic edition of Shakespeare's works is the First Folio, published by his friends and colleagues in 1623. This volume makes the case for printing and staging the plays as set in the First Folio, which preserved actor cues that helped players understand and perform their roles. The practices of modern editors are critiqued. Also included are sections on analyzing and acting the text, how a complex character can be created using the First Folio, and a director's approach to rehearsing Shakespeare with various exercises for both professional and student actors. In conclusion, all of the findings are applied to Measure for Measure.

Author : Graham Watts
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476618722

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Shakespeare's Authentic Performance Texts by Graham Watts Pdf

When we pick up a copy of a Shakespeare play, we assume that we hold in our hands an original record of his writing. We don't. Present-day printings are an editor's often subjective version of the script. Around 25 percent of any Shakespeare play will have been altered, and this creates an enormous amount of confusion. The only authentic edition of Shakespeare's works is the First Folio, published by his friends and colleagues in 1623. This volume makes the case for printing and staging the plays as set in the First Folio, which preserved actor cues that helped players understand and perform their roles. The practices of modern editors are critiqued. Also included are sections on analyzing and acting the text, how a complex character can be created using the First Folio, and a director's approach to rehearsing Shakespeare with various exercises for both professional and student actors. In conclusion, all of the findings are applied to Measure for Measure.

Author : William B. Worthen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1997-09-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521558999

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Shakespeare and the Authority of Performance by William B. Worthen Pdf

How the idea of Shakespearean authority is still invested in the activities of directing, acting, and scholarship.

Author : Richard Dutton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198777748

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Shakespeare, Court Dramatist by Richard Dutton Pdf

'Shakespeare, Court Dramatist' outlines the symbiotic relationship between Shakespeare and the court and shows how it affected his writing, forging plays like 'Romeo and Juliet' and 'Hamlet' into the versions we know best today.

Author : Stephen Orgel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781317796213

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The Authentic Shakespeare by Stephen Orgel Pdf

In this lavishly illustrated book, one of the most important and influential scholars of the Renaissance stage brings together essays that have changed the way we think about the age of Shakespeare. His subjects are varied and interconnected: the theater as social phenomenon, the development of the stage as an architectural presence and a cultural institution, the changing use of setting and costume, the changing status of the acting profession, the complex relation of theater to the political life of the age. Most of all, The Authentic Shakespeare is about how the modern constructs the past, how the texts that were performed on the Elizabethan stage became the books and editions that are, for our time, Renaissance drama. Many essays in The Authentic Shakespeare have become classics. Collected here for the first time, they essential reading for students of the Renaissance stage and the history of the book.

Author : James C. Bulman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781134819188

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Shakespeare, Theory and Performance by James C. Bulman Pdf

Shakespeare, Theory and Performance is a groundbreaking collection of seminal essays which apply the abstract theory of Shakespearean criticism to the practicalities of performance. Bringing together the key names from both realms, the collection reflects a wide range of sources and influences, from traditional literary, performance and historical criticism to modern cultural theory. Together they raise questions about the place of performance criticism in modern and often competing debates of cultural materialism, new historicism, feminism and deconstruction. An exciting and fascinating volume, it will be important reading for students and scholars of literary and theatre studies alike.

Author : Andrew James Hartley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107048553

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Shakespeare on the University Stage by Andrew James Hartley Pdf

This collection is the first study of student Shakespeare productions at universities and colleges across the world.

Author : Jelena Marelj
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350061408

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Shakespearean Character by Jelena Marelj Pdf

Why do we continue to experience many of Shakespeare's dramatic characters as real people with personal histories, individual personalities, and psychological depth? What is it that makes Falstaff seem to jump off the page, and what gives Hamlet his complexity? Shakespearean Character: Language in Performance examines how the extraordinary lifelikeness of some of Shakespeare's most enigmatic and self-conscious characters is produced through language. Using theories drawn from linguistic pragmatics, this book claims that our impression of characters as real people is an effect arising from characters' pragmatic use of language in combination with the historical and textual meanings that Shakespeare conveys to his audience by dramatic and meta-dramatic means. Challenging the notion of interiority attributed to Shakespeare's characters by many contemporary critics, theatre professionals, and audiences, the book demonstrates that dramatic characters possess anteriority which gives us the impression that they exist outside of- and prior to- the play-texts as real people. Jelena Marelj's study examines five linguistically self-conscious characters drawn from the genres of history, tragedy and comedy, which continue to be subjects of extensive critical debate: Falstaff, Cleopatra, Henry V, Katherine from The Taming of the Shrew, and Hamlet. She shows that by inferring Shakespeare's intentions through his characters' verbal exchanges and the discourses of the play, the audience becomes emotionally involved with or repulsed by characters and it is this emotional response that makes these characters strikingly memorable and intimately human. Shakespearean Character will equip readers for further work on the genealogy of Shakespearean character, including minor characters, stock characters, and allegorical characters.

Author : Peter Reynolds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:638780981

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Shakespeare: Text Into Performance by Peter Reynolds Pdf

Author : Margaret Jane Kidnie
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780415308670

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Shakespeare and the Problem of Adaptation by Margaret Jane Kidnie Pdf

Kidnie brings current debates in performance criticism in contact with recent developments in textual studies to explore what it is that distinguishes Shakespearean work from its apparent other, the adaptation.

Author : John Jowett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192562616

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Shakespeare and Text by John Jowett Pdf

Shakespeare and Text is built on the research and experience of a leading expert on Shakespeare editing and textual studies. The first edition has proved its value as an indispensable and unique guide to its topic. It takes Shakespeare readers to the very foundation of his work, explaining how his plays first took shape in the theatre where writing was part of a larger collective enterprise. The account examines the early modern printing industry that produced the earliest surviving texts of Shakespeare's plays. It describes the roles of publisher and printer, the controls exerted through the Stationers' Company, and the technology of printing. A chapter is devoted to the book that gathered Shakespeare's plays together for the first time, the First Folio of 1623. Shakespeare and Text goes on to survey the major developments in textual studies over the past century. It builds on the recent upsurge of interest in textual theory, and deals with issues such as collaboration, the instability of the text, the relationship between theatre culture and print culture, and the book as a material object. Later chapters examine the current critical edition, explaining the procedures that transform early texts in to a very different cultural artefact, the edition in which we regularly encounter Shakespeare. The new revised edition, which builds on Jowett's research for the New Oxford Shakespeare, engages with scholarship of the past decade, work that has transformed our understanding of textual versions, has opened up the taxonomy of Shakespeare's texts, and has significantly extended the picture of Shakespeare as a co-author. A new chapter describes digital text, digital editing, and their interface with the traditional media.

Author : David Foley McCandless
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015040036629

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Gender and Performance in Shakespeare's Problem Comedies by David Foley McCandless Pdf

The book provides a unique and invigorating example of how performance criticism can illuminate these difficult, sometimes overlooked tragicomedies.

Author : Stephen Orgel
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812298369

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The Invention of Shakespeare, and Other Essays by Stephen Orgel Pdf

In The Invention of Shakespeare, and Other Essays Stephen Orgel brings together twelve essays that consider the complex nature of Shakespearean texts, which often include errors or confusions, and the editorial and interpretive strategies for dealing with them in commentary or performance.

Author : Andrew James Hartley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : College and school drama
ISBN : 1316202267

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Shakespeare on the University Stage by Andrew James Hartley Pdf

"Featuring essays from seventeen international scholars, this exciting new collection is the first sustained study of Shakespeare on the university and college stage. Treating the subject both historically and globally, the essays describe theatrical conditions which fit neither the professional nor the amateur models and show how student performances provide valuable vehicles for artistic construction and intellectual analysis. The book redresses the neglect of this distinctive form of Shakespeare performance, opening up new ways of thinking about the nature and value of university production and its ability to draw unique audiences. Looking at productions across the world - from Asia to Europe and North America - it will interest scholars as well as upper-level students in areas such as Shakespeare studies, performance studies and theatre history"--

Author : Aileen Gonsalves,Tracy Irish
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350118416

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Shakespeare and Meisner by Aileen Gonsalves,Tracy Irish Pdf

This practical handbook is invaluable for anyone performing, teaching, studying or simply wanting a new way to enjoy Shakespeare. It provides an outline of Meisner's work and legacy, a discussion of that legacy in the light of the enduring global popularity of Shakespeare, and a wealth of practical exercises drawn from Meisner's techniques. Shakespeare writes about the truth in human relationships and human hearts. Sanford Meisner's work unlocks truthful acting. They would seem a perfect match. Yet, following Meisner's note to his actors that 'text is your greatest enemy', Shakespeare and Meisner are often considered 'strange bedfellows'. The rhetorical complexity of Shakespeare's text can often be perceived as rules an actor must learn in order to perform Shakespeare 'properly'. Meisner's main rule is that 'you can't say ouch until you've been pinched': in other words, an actor must genuinely feel something in order to react in a performance which is alive to the moment. This book explores how actors can use Meisner's tools of 'acting is reacting' to discover the infinite freedom within the apparent constraints of Shakespeare's text.