Shakespeare S Globe Rebuilt

Author : J. R. Mulryne,Margaret Shewring,Andrew Gurr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1997-06-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0521599881

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Shakespeare's Globe Rebuilt by J. R. Mulryne,Margaret Shewring,Andrew Gurr Pdf

The rebuilding of the Globe theatre (1599-1613) on London's Bankside, a few yards from the site of the playhouse in which many of Shakespeare's plays were first performed, must rank as one of the most imaginative enterprises of recent decades. It has aroused intense interest among scholars and the general public worldwide. This book offers a fully illustrated account of the research that has gone into the Globe reconstruction, drawing on the work of leading scholars, theatre people and craftsmen to provide an authoritative view of the twenty years of research and the hundreds of practical decisions entailed. Documents of the period are explored afresh; the techniques of timber-framed building and the decorative practices of Elizabethan craftsmen explained; and all of this reconciled with the requirements of the actors and restrictions of modern architectural design. The result is a book that will fascinate scholarly readers and laymen alike.

Author : J. R. Mulryne,Margaret Shewring,Andrew Gurr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1997-06-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0521599881

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Shakespeare's Globe Rebuilt by J. R. Mulryne,Margaret Shewring,Andrew Gurr Pdf

The rebuilding of the Globe theatre (1599-1613) on London's Bankside, a few yards from the site of the playhouse in which many of Shakespeare's plays were first performed, must rank as one of the most imaginative enterprises of recent decades. It has aroused intense interest among scholars and the general public worldwide. This book offers a fully illustrated account of the research that has gone into the Globe reconstruction, drawing on the work of leading scholars, theatre people and craftsmen to provide an authoritative view of the twenty years of research and the hundreds of practical decisions entailed. Documents of the period are explored afresh; the techniques of timber-framed building and the decorative practices of Elizabethan craftsmen explained; and all of this reconciled with the requirements of the actors and restrictions of modern architectural design. The result is a book that will fascinate scholarly readers and laymen alike.

Author : Andrew Gurr,Francis Reid,John Orrell
Publisher : New York : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015017698971

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Rebuilding Shakespeare's Globe by Andrew Gurr,Francis Reid,John Orrell Pdf

Describes the recent undertaking to rebuild the Globe theater in London and the intense research required for the search for the "real" Globe.

Author : Andrew Gurr,Farah Karim-Cooper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107040632

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Moving Shakespeare Indoors by Andrew Gurr,Farah Karim-Cooper Pdf

This book examines the conditions of the original performances in seventeenth-century indoor theatres.

Author : Daniel Hahn,Rosemary Linnell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 095364801X

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Shakespeare's Globe Exhibition by Daniel Hahn,Rosemary Linnell Pdf

Author : Catharine Arnold
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781471125713

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Globe by Catharine Arnold Pdf

The life of William Shakespeare, Britain's greatest dramatist, was inextricably linked with the history of London. Together, the great writer and the great city came of age and confronted triumph and tragedy. Triumph came when Shakespeare's company, the Chamberlain's Men, opened the Globe playhouse on Bankside in 1599, under the patronage of Queen Elizabeth I. Tragedy touched the lives of many of his contemporaries, from fellow playwright Christopher Marlowe to the disgraced Earl of Essex, while London struggled against the ever-present threat of riots, rebellions and outbreaks of plague. Globetakes its readers on a tour of London through Shakespeare's life and work. In fascinating detail, Catharine Arnold tells how acting came of age, how troupes of touring players were transformed from scruffy vagabonds into the finely-dressed 'strutters' of the Globe itself. We learn about James Burbage, founder of the original Theatre, in Shoreditch, who carried timbers across the Thames to build the Globe among the bear-gardens and brothels of Bankside. And of the terrible night in 1613 when the theatre caught fire during a performance of King Henry VIII. Rebuilt once more, the Globe continued to stand as a monument to Shakespeare's genius until 1642 when it was destroyed on the orders of Oliver Cromwell. And finally we learn how 300 years later, Shakespeare's Globe opened once more upon the Bankside, to great acclaim, rising like a phoenix from the flames. Arnold creates a vivid portrait of Shakespeare and his London from the bard's own plays and contemporary sources, combining a novelist's eye for detail with a historian's grasp of his unique contribution to the development of the English theatre. This is a portrait of Shakespeare, London, the man and the myth.

Author : Susan Cooper
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 5 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780689845789

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King of Shadows by Susan Cooper Pdf

Only in the world of the theater can Nat Field find an escape from the tragedies that have shadowed his young life. So he is thrilled when he is chosen to join an American drama troupe traveling to London to perform A Midsummer Night's Dream in a new replica of the famous Globe theater. Shortly after arriving in England, Nat goes to bed ill and awakens transported back in time four hundred years -- to another London, and another production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Amid the bustle and excitement of an Elizabethan theatrical production, Nat finds the warm, nurturing father figure missing from his life -- in none other than William Shakespeare himself. Does Nat have to remain trapped in the past forever, or give up the friendship he's so longed for in his own time?

Author : Aliki
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000-08-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780064437226

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William Shakespeare & the Globe by Aliki Pdf

From Hamlet to Romeo and Juliet to A Midsummer Night′s Dream, Shakespeare′s celebrated works have touched people around the world. Aliki combines literature, history, biography, archaeology, and architecture in this richly detailed and meticulously researched introduction to Shakespeare′s world-his life in Elizabethan times, the theater world, and the Globe, for which he wrote his plays. Then she brings history full circle to the present-day reconstruction of the Globe theater. Ages 8+

Author : Diana Devlin
Publisher : Oberon Books
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1786827093

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Sam Wanamaker by Diana Devlin Pdf

Actor. Director. Visionary. The fascinating life of Sam Wanamaker is explored for the first time in this biography by Diana Devlin, who worked closely with Wanamaker during the last twenty years of his life. Sam Wanamaker (1909 - 1993) is best known as the man who spent the last twenty-five years of his life campaigning to reconstruct Shakespeare's Globe near its original site in London. Born in the USA, he trained as an actor in Chicago and began his career during the golden age of radio drama, before moving on to Broadway. A vocal left wing activist, Wanamaker moved to the UK during the turbulent era of the anti-Communist witch hunts. Having crossed the Atlantic, he carved a successful international career as actor, producer and director. He directed the opening production at the Sydney Opera House. With his staunch sense of purpose, he made as many enemies as friends: charismatic and persuasive, he was also stubborn and domineering. But above all, he was a man of great vision, and it was that vision that inspired many to help make his dream of Shakespeare's Globe come into being, which opened to much fanfare in 1997

Author : Pascale Aebischer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108420488

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Shakespeare, Spectatorship and the Technologies of Performance by Pascale Aebischer Pdf

Examining how technological developments in performance practices affect spectator experience of Shakespeare and early modern drama.

Author : David Robson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Theaters
ISBN : 1601525435

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Shakespeare's Globe Theater by David Robson Pdf

Information about the theater where Shakespeare's plays were first staged, and one of the most famous theaters in history.

Author : Morgan Lloyd Malcolm
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350200272

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Emilia by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm Pdf

'A spicy work of biographical conjecture ... It's also a rousing reminder of the countless creative women who have been written out of history or have had to fight relentlessly to make themselves heard.' EVENING STANDARD 'The great virtue of Lloyd Malcolm's speculative history lies in its passion and anger: it ends with a blazing address to the audience that is virtually a call to arms. It is throughout, however, a highly theatrical piece ... In rescuing Emilia from the shades, [the play] gives her dramatic life and polemical potency.' GUARDIAN The little we know of Emilia Bassano Lanier (1569 - 1645) is that she may have been the Dark Lady of Shakespeare's Sonnets, mistress of Lord Chamberlain, one of the first English female poets to be published, a mother, teacher who founded a school for women, and radical feminist with North African ancestry. Living at a time when women had such limited opportunities, Emilia Lanier is therefore a fascinating subject for this speculative history. In telling her story, Morgan Lloyd Malcolm represents the stories of women everywhere whose narratives have been written out of history. Originally commissioned for Shakespeare's Globe with an all-female cast, Emilia is published here as a Methuen Drama Student Edition with commentary and notes by Elizabeth Schafer, Professor of Drama at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.

Author : Bruce Haynes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007-07-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780195189872

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The End of Early Music by Bruce Haynes Pdf

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Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781722525101

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The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare Pdf

The Merchant of Venice, is an intriguing drama of love, greed, and revenge. Believed to have been written in 1596, it is classified as a comedy, but while it shares certain aspects with Shakespeare's other romantic comedies, the play is perhaps remembered more for its dramatic scenes, and especially for the character of Shylock, a vengeful Venetian moneylender. At its heart, the play contrasts the characters of Shylock, with the gracious, level-headed Portia, a wealthy young woman, besieged by suitors. One suitor in particular, Antonio, a merchant in Venice, must default on a large loan provided by Shylock, who insists on the enforcement of the binding contract that will cost the life of Antonio, inciting Portia to mount a memorable defense. In this richly plotted drama, Shylock, whom Shakespeare endowed with the depth and vitality of his greatest characters, is not alone in his villainy. In fact, the large cast of ambitious and scheming characters demonstrates in scene after scene, that honesty is a quality often strained where matters of love and money are concerned. In many of the play’s productions, Shylock gives such powerful expression to his alienation due to the hatred around him that, he emerges as the hero. The suspense and gravity of the play's main plot, along with its romance, have made The Merchant of Venice an audience favorite and one of the most studied and performed of Shakespeare's plays.

Author : Herman Gollob
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781400076307

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Me and Shakespeare by Herman Gollob Pdf

On the eve of retiring from a successful publishing career, Herman Gollob attends a wonderful Broadway production of Hamlet starring Ralph Fiennes. Galvanized by the splendor of the language, the drama and the acting, he discovers an insatiable passion for all things Shakespeare. He reads broadly and deeply about the plays, discusses them with some of the great actors, directors, and teachers of our time, and soon finds himself teaching a popular Shakespeare class at a small New Jersey college. Gollob’s quest leads him to Shakespeare’s birthplace in Stratford-on-Avon; to the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.; to a summer course on Shakespeare at Oxford; and to London’s recently rebuilt Globe Theatre. As he pursues his glorious new obsession, Gollob reflects on his family’s bittersweet history, his encounters with writers, and the emergence of a Jewish identity that inspires some original ideas about Shakespeare’s plays. Me and Shakespeare is a joyful memoir that attests to the power of literature to re-invigorate our lives at any age.