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Shakespeare's Lost Playhouse

Author : Laurie Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351578820

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Shakespeare's Lost Playhouse by Laurie Johnson Pdf

The playhouse at Newington Butts has long remained on the fringes of histories of Shakespeare’s career and of the golden age of the theatre with which his name is associated. A mile outside London, and relatively disused by the time Shakespeare began his career in the theatre, this playhouse has been easy to forget. Yet for eleven days in June, 1594, it was home to the two companies that would come to dominate the London theatres. Thanks to the ledgers of theatre entrepreneur, Philip Henslowe, we have a record of this short venture. Shakespeare's Lost Playhouse is an exploration of a brief moment in time when the focus of the theatrical world in England was on this small playhouse. To write this history, Laurie Johnson draws on archival studies, archaeology, environmental studies, geography, social, political, and cultural studies as well as methods developed within literary and theatre history to expand the scope of our understanding of the theatres, the rise of the playing business, and the formations of the playing companies.

Shakespeare's Lost Playhouse

Author : Lawrence Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Theater
ISBN : 1138296333

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Shakespeare's Lost Playhouse by Lawrence Johnson Pdf

The playhouse at Newington Butts has long remained on the fringes of histories of Shakespeare's career and of the golden age of the theatre with which his name is associated. Yet for eleven days in June, 1594, it was home to the two companies that would come to dominate the London theatres.

Shakespeare and Lost Plays

Author : David McInnis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108843263

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Shakespeare and Lost Plays by David McInnis Pdf

Explores Shakespeare's plays in their most immediate context: the hundreds of plays known to original audiences, but lost to us.

Shakespeare's Lost Play

Author : Gregory Doran
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1848422083

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Shakespeare's Lost Play by Gregory Doran Pdf

Gregory Doran's account of his quest to re-discover Cardenio, the lost play written by Shakespeare and John Fletcher. A thrilling act of literary detection that takes him from the Bodleian Library in Oxford, via Cervantes' Spain to the stage of the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford. Fully illustrated throughout, Shakespeare's Lost Play tells a fascinating story, which, like the play itself, will engross Shakespeare buffs and theatregoers alike. Doran's much-praised production of Cardenio for the Royal Shakespeare Company marked the culmination of years spent searching for a famously 'lost' play co-authored by William Shakespeare. In this book, Doran takes us with him on his quest to unearth every extant clue and then into the rehearsal room as he pieces together a play unseen since its first performance in 1613. The result, as the Guardian attested, is 'an extraordinary and theatrically powerful piece, one that should both please audiences and keep academic scholars in work for years'.

New Directions in Early Modern English Drama

Author : Aidan Norrie,Mark Houlahan
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781501514029

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New Directions in Early Modern English Drama by Aidan Norrie,Mark Houlahan Pdf

This collection examines some of the people, places, and plays at the edge of early modern English drama. Recent scholarship has begun to think more critically about the edge, particularly in relation to the canon and canonicity. This book demonstrates that the people and concepts long seen as on the edge of early modern English drama made vital contributions both within the fictive worlds of early modern plays, and without, in the real worlds of playmakers, theaters, and audiences. The book engages with topics such as child actors, alterity, sexuality, foreignness, and locality to acknowledge and extend the rich sense of playmaking and all its ancillary activities that have emerged over the last decade. The essays by a global team of scholars bring to life people and practices that flourished on the edge, manifesting their importance to both early modern audiences, and to current readers and performers.

Revisiting Shakespeare’s Lost Play

Author : Deborah C. Payne
Publisher : Springer
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319465142

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Revisiting Shakespeare’s Lost Play by Deborah C. Payne Pdf

This collection of essays centres on Double Falsehood, Lewis Theobald’s 1727 adaptation of the “lost” play of Cardenio, possibly co-authored by John Fletcher and William Shakespeare. In a departure from most scholarship to date, the contributors fold Double Falsehood back into the milieu for which it was created rather than searching for traces of Shakespeare in the text. Robert D. Hume’s knowledge of theatre history permits a fresh take on the forgery question as well as the Shakespeare authorship controversy. Diana Solomon’s understanding of eighteenth-century rape culture and Jean I. Marsden’s command of contemporary adaptation practices both emphasise the play’s immediate social and theatrical contexts. And, finally, Deborah C. Payne’s familiarity with the eighteenth-century stage allows for a reconsideration of Double Falsehood as integral to a debate between Theobald, Alexander Pope, and John Gay over the future of the English drama.

Cardenio

Author : William Shakespeare,John Fletcher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Drama
ISBN : 184842180X

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Cardenio by William Shakespeare,John Fletcher Pdf

Set in the heat and dust of Andalusia in seventeenth-century Spain, Cardenio is the story of a friendship betrayed, with all the elements of a thriller: disguise, dishonour and deceit. A woman is seduced, a bride is forced to the altar, and a man runs mad among the mountains of the Sierra Morena. The history of the play is every bit as thrilling, and this text is the result of a masterful act of literary archaeology by the Royal Shakespeare Company's Chief Associate Director Gregory Doran, to re-imagine a previously lost play by Shakespeare. Based on an episode in Cervantes' Don Quixote, the play known as Cardenio by Shakespeare and John Fletcher was performed at court in 1612. A copy of their collaboration has never been found; however, it is claimed that Double Falshood by Lewis Theobald is an eighteenth-century adaptation of it. Since Theobald's play misses out some crucial scenes in the plot, Doran has turned to the Cervantes original to supply the missing episodes, using the original English translation by Thomas Shelton (1612) that Fletcher and Shakespeare must themselves have read. Cardenio re-opened the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, as part of the Royal Shakespeare Company's fiftieth birthday season in 2011.

Shakespeare Studies, volume 45

Author : James R. Siemon,Diana E. Henderson
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780838644867

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Shakespeare Studies, volume 45 by James R. Siemon,Diana E. Henderson Pdf

Shakespeare Studies is an annual volume featuring the work of scholars, critics, and cultural historians from across the globe. This issue includes a Forum on the drama of the 1580s, from eleven contributors; a Next Gen Plenary, from four contributors, three articles, and reviews of sixteen books.

Reading the Road, from Shakespeare's Crossways to Bunyan's Highways

Author : Hopkins Lisa Hopkins
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : English literature
ISBN : 9781474454148

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Reading the Road, from Shakespeare's Crossways to Bunyan's Highways by Hopkins Lisa Hopkins Pdf

Explores how cultural conceptions of mobility and the road contribute to identity and culture in early modern BritainOpens new windows on early modern culture, subjectivity and perceptions around the experience of the road and how that shapes the idea of the road itselfOffers insight into the ways both the bare boards of the stage and prose narratives were used to imagine road journeys and the intersections between public and private spaceEnhances historical understanding of the literal place of theatre in the road networks around early modern LondonProvides a crucial ligature in English literary and cultural history. The present plays and prose are prolegomena to the travel literature of Montagu, Swift, Boswell and Johnson in the Hebrides, Sterne's Sentimental Journey, Fielding's Tom Jones, and peripatetic Civil War narrativesThis book brings together thirteen essays, by both established and emerging scholars, which examine the most influential meanings of roads in early modern literature and culture. Chapters develop our understanding of the place of the road in the early modern imagination and open various windows on a geography which may by its nature seem passing or trivial but is in fact central to all conceptions of movement. They also shed new light on perhaps the most astonishing achievement of early modern plays: their use of one small, bare space to suggest an amazing variety of physical and potentially metaphysical locations.

William Shakespeare's Long Lost First Play (Abridged)

Author : Reed Martin,Austin Tichenor
Publisher : Broadway Play Publishing
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0881457612

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William Shakespeare's Long Lost First Play (Abridged) by Reed Martin,Austin Tichenor Pdf

Discovered in a treasure-filled parking lot in Leicester, England (next to a pile of bones that didn't look that important), an ancient manuscript proves to be the long-lost first play written by none other than seventeen-year-old William Shakespeare from Stratford. We are totally not completely making this up. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S LONG LOST FIRST PLAY (abridged) is the literary holy grail: an actual manuscript in Shakespeare's own hand showing all his most famous characters and familiar speeches in a brand-new story. But because it's one hundred hours long and contains multiple unwieldy storylines, it was decided, as a public service, to abridge it down to a brief and palatable ninety-minute performance for this lost masterpiece. "Something wickedly funny this way comes!" The New York Times "A breathlessly irreverent, pun-filled romp!" The Washington Post "A top-notch comic deconstruction of Shakespeare!" The Stage--U K

Shakespeare

Author : E. A. J. Honigmann
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Dramatists, English
ISBN : 0719054257

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Shakespeare by E. A. J. Honigmann Pdf

For many years scholars have puzzled over the whereabouts of the young Shakespeare. This literary detective story throws light on the problems and provides some significant answers.

Shakespeare's Lost Kingdom

Author : Charles Beauclerk
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802197146

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Shakespeare's Lost Kingdom by Charles Beauclerk Pdf

“A book for anyone who loves Shakespeare . . . One of the most scandalous and potentially revolutionary theories about the authorship of these immortal works.” —Mark Rylance, First Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre It is perhaps the greatest story never told: the truth behind the most enduring works of literature in the English language, perhaps in any language. Who was William Shakespeare? Critically acclaimed historian Charles Beauclerk has spent more than two decades researching the authorship question, and if the plays were discovered today, he argues, we would see them for what they are—shocking political works written by a court insider, someone with the monarch’s indulgence, shielded from repression in an unstable time of armada and reformation. But the author’s identity was quickly swept under the rug after his death. The official history—of an uneducated merchant writing in near obscurity, and of a virginal queen married to her country—dominated for centuries. Shakespeare’s Lost Kingdom delves deep into the conflicts and personalities of Elizabethan England, as well as the plays themselves, to tell the true story of the “Soul of the Age.” “Beauclerk’s learned, deep scholarship, compelling research, engaging style and convincing interpretation won me completely. He has made me view the whole Elizabethan world afresh. The plays glow with new life, exciting and real, infused with the soul of a man too long denied his inheritance.” —Sir Derek Jacobi

Leicester's Men and their Plays

Author : Laurie Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009366472

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Leicester's Men and their Plays by Laurie Johnson Pdf

In this first full history of the first great Elizabethan play company, Laurie Johnson shows the vital role of Leicester's Men in developing the main features of Shakespearean theatre. Unearthing new discoveries from wide-ranging primary material, he tells the fascinating stories of the lives of the earliest Elizabethan players.

Shakespeare's Secret

Author : Elise Broach
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005-05-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781429976848

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Shakespeare's Secret by Elise Broach Pdf

Hero changed into a T-shirt, grabbed a book, and padded barefoot into her sister's room. The large windows overlooked the backyard. She could see the moonlight streaming over the trees and bushes, making long, crazy shadows across the grass. Was there a diamond hidden out there somewhere? She looked at Beatrice, already settled under the covers. She wanted to tell her about the Murphys, but at the same time, she didn't. She wanted to keep the secret. To have something that belonged only to her. A missing diamond, a mysterious neighbor, a link to Shakespeare-can Hero uncover the connections? When Hero starts sixth grade at a new school, she's less concerned about the literary origins of her Shakespearean name than about the teasing she's sure to suffer because of it. So she has the same name as a girl in a book by a dusty old author. Hero is simply not interested in the connections. But that's just the thing; suddenly connections are cropping up all over, and odd characters and uncertain pasts are exactly what do fascinate Hero. There's a mysterious diamond hidden in her new house, a curious woman next door who seems to know an awful lot about it, and then, well, then there's Shakespeare. Not to mention Danny Cordova, only the most popular boy in school. Is it all in keeping with her namesake's origin-just much ado about nothing? Hero, being Hero, is determined to figure it out. In this fast-paced novel, Elise Broach weaves an intriguing literary mystery full of historical insights and discoveries. A JUNIOR LIBRARY GUILD SELECTION

Playing and Playgoing in Early Modern England

Author : Simon Smith,Emma Whipday
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108489058

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Playing and Playgoing in Early Modern England by Simon Smith,Emma Whipday Pdf

Offers a new, interdisciplinary account of early modern drama through the lens of playing and playgoing.