Shakespeare S Theatres And The Effects Of Performance

Author : Farah Karim Cooper,Tiffany Stern
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408174647

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Shakespeare's Theatres and the Effects of Performance by Farah Karim Cooper,Tiffany Stern Pdf

How did Elizabethan and Jacobean acting companies create their visual and aural effects? What materials were available to them and how did they influence staging and writing? What impact did the sensations of theatre have on early modern audiences? How did the construction of the playhouses contribute to technological innovations in the theatre? What effect might these innovations have had on the writing of plays? Shakespeare's Theatres and The Effects of Performance is a landmark collection of essays by leading international scholars addressing these and other questions to create a unique and comprehensive overview of the practicalities and realities of the theatre in the early modern period.

Author : Michael W. Shurgot,Margaret E. Owens
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0874136148

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Stages of Play by Michael W. Shurgot,Margaret E. Owens Pdf

Rather than arguing for a "unified response" among spectators, as many scholars do, the book argues that when the plays are performed on thrust stages, the audience's reactions are actually seminal to the plays' intended dramatic effects.

Author : John Russell Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Theater
ISBN : IND:32000001291121

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Shakespeare's Plays in Performance by John Russell Brown Pdf

Author : Jay L. Halio
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0719026997

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Understanding Shakespeare's Plays in Performance by Jay L. Halio Pdf

Every year, hundreds of thousands of people buy tickets to see Shakespeare's plays performed. No other playwright commands the kind of interest that Shakespeare does.

Author : Andrew Gurr,Farah Karim-Cooper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 42,5 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 : Hugh Macrae Richmond
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0826477763

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Shakespeare's Theatre by Hugh Macrae Richmond Pdf

Under an alphabetical list of relevant terms, names and concepts, the book reviews current knowledge of the character and operation of theatres in Shakespeare's time, with an explanation of their origins>

Author : Andrew Gurr,Mariko Ichikawa
Publisher : Oxford Shakespeare Topics
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0198711581

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Staging in Shakespeare's Theatres by Andrew Gurr,Mariko Ichikawa Pdf

By bringing together evidence from different sources--documentary, archaeological, and the play-texts themselves--Staging Shakespeare's Theatres reconstructs the ways in which the plays were originally staged in the theaters of Shakespeare's own time, and shows how the physical possibilities and limitations of these theaters affected both the writing and the performances. The book explains the conditions under which the early playwrights and players worked, their preparation of the plays for the stage, and their rehearsal practices. It looks at the quality of evidence supplied by the surviving play-texts, and the extant to which audiences of the time differed from modern audiences; and it gives vivid examples of how Elizabethan actors made use of gestures, costumes, props, and the theater's specific design features. Stage movement is analyzed through a careful study of how exits and entrances worked on such stages. The final chapter offers a thorough examination of Hamlet as a text for performance, excitingly returning the play to its original staging at the Globe.

Author : Douglas Bruster,Robert Weimann
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0415334438

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Prologues to Shakespeare's Theatre by Douglas Bruster,Robert Weimann Pdf

This eye-opening study draws attention to the largely neglected form of the early modern prologue. Reading the prologue in performed as well as printed contexts, Douglas Bruster and Robert Weimann take us beyond concepts of stability and autonomy in dramatic beginnings to reveal the crucial cultural functions performed by the prologue in Elizabethan England. While its most basic task is to seize the attention of a noisy audience, the prologue's more significant threshold position is used to usher spectators and actors through a rite of passage. Engaging competing claims, expectations and offerings, the prologue introduces, authorizes and, critically, straddles the worlds of the actual theatrical event and the 'counterfeit' world on stage. In this way, prologues occupy a unique and powerful position between two orders of cultural practice and perception. Close readings of prologues by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, including Marlowe, Peele and Lyly, demonstrate the prologue's role in representing both the world in the play and playing in the world. Through their detailed examination of this remarkable form and its functions, the authors provide a fascinating n representing both the world in the play and playing in the world. Through their detailed examination of this remarkable form and its functions, the authors provide a fascinating perspective on early modern drama, a perspective that enriches our knowledge of the plays' socio-cultural context and their mode of theatrical address and action.

Author : Gillian Woods,Sarah Dustagheer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781474257480

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Stage Directions and Shakespearean Theatre by Gillian Woods,Sarah Dustagheer Pdf

What do 'stage directions' do in early modern drama? Who or what are they directing: action on the stage, or imagination via the page? Is the label 'stage direction' helpful or misleading? Do these 'directions' provide evidence of Renaissance playhouse practice? What happens when we put them at the centre of literary close readings of early modern plays? Stage Directions and Shakespearean Theatre investigates these problems through innovative research by a range of international experts. This collection of essays examines the creative possibilities of stage directions and and their implications for actors and audiences, readers and editors, historians and contemporary critics. Looking at the different ways stage directions make meaning, this volume provides new insights into a range of Renaissance plays.

Author : Sonia Massai
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108429627

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Shakespeare's Accents by Sonia Massai Pdf

A history of the reception of Shakespeare on the English stage focusing on the vocal dimensions of theatrical performance.

Author : R. Shaughnessy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2002-06-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781403913661

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The Shakespeare Effect by R. Shaughnessy Pdf

This lively and provocative study offers a radical reappraisal of a century of Shakespearean theatre. Topics addressed include modernist Shakespearean performance's relation with psychoanalysis, the hidden gender dynamics of the open stage movement, and the appropriation of Shakespeare himself as a dramatic fiction and theatrical icon.

Author : Peter Thomson
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Theater
ISBN : 0415051487

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Shakespeare's Theatre by Peter Thomson Pdf

Concentrating on performance, Thomson reviews the commercial and artistic priorities of Shakespeare and the brilliant and hardheaded group of actors who formed his company during the heyday of the Globe Playhouse, from 1599 to 1608.Reviews of the First Edition'...valuable and enjoyable reading for all studying Shakespeare's plays.'Following in the patternestablished by John Russell Brown for the excellent series (Theatre and Production Studies), he provides first an account of Shakespeare's company, then a study of three individual plays Twelfth Night, Hamlet and Macbeth as performed by the company. Peter Thomson writes in a crisp, sharp, enlivening style.' TLS''...the best analysis yet of Elizabethan acting practices, excavated form the texts themselves rather than reconstructed on basis of one monolithic theory, and an essay on Hamlet that is a model of Critical intelligence and theatrical invention.' Yearbook of English Studies'Synthesizes the important facts and summarizes projects with a vigorous prose style, and expertly applies his experience in both practical drama and academic teaching to his discussion.' Review of English Studies

Author : Pascale Aebischer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 51,8 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 : Catherine Silverstone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781135178314

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Shakespeare and Trauma by Catherine Silverstone Pdf

This study explores the relationship between performances of Shakespeare's plays and the ways in which they engage with traumatic events and histories. It investigates the ethical and political implications of attempts to represent trauma in performance.

Author : Evelyn Tribble
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781472576040

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Early Modern Actors and Shakespeare's Theatre by Evelyn Tribble Pdf

What skills did Shakespeare's actors bring to their craft? How do these skills differ from those of contemporary actors? Early Modern Actors and Shakespeare's Theatre: Thinking with the Body examines the 'toolkit' of the early modern player and suggests new readings of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries through the lens of their many skills. Theatre is an ephemeral medium. Little remains to us of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries: some printed texts, scattered documents and records, and a few scraps of description, praise, and detraction. Because most of what survives are printed playbooks, students of English theatre find it easy to forget that much of what happened on the early modern stage took place within the gaps of written language: the implicit or explicit calls for fights, dances, military formations, feats of physical skill, song, and clowning. Theatre historians and textual editors have often ignored or denigrated such moments, seeing them merely as extraneous amusements or signs that the text has been 'corrupted' by actors. This book argues that recapturing a positive account of the skills and expertise of the early modern players will result in a more capacious understanding of the nature of theatricality in the period.