Shakespeare Text And Theater

Author : Jay L. Halio,Lois Potter,Arthur F. Kinney
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0874136997

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Shakespeare, Text and Theater by Jay L. Halio,Lois Potter,Arthur F. Kinney Pdf

"Jay L. Halio is internationally distinguished as an editor of Shakespeare's plays and as a critic of Shakespeare in performance. This collection, with an international list of contributors, honors both those interests and explores their interconnectedness."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Paul Edmondson,Bridget Escolme
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137284938

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Shakespeare and the Making of Theatre by Paul Edmondson,Bridget Escolme Pdf

A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of literature. Leading performance critics dismantle Shakespeare's texts, identifying theatrical cues in ways which develop understanding of the underlying theatricality of Shakespeare's plays and stimulate further performances.

Author : Lukas Erne,Margaret Jane Kidnie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2004-05-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0521830958

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Textual Performances by Lukas Erne,Margaret Jane Kidnie Pdf

This important collection brings together leading scholars to examine crucial questions regarding the theory and practice of editing Shakespeare's plays. In particular, the essays look at how best to engage editorially with evidence provided by historical research into the playhouse, author's study and printing house. How are editors of playscripts to mediate history, in its many forms, for modern users? Considering our knowledge of the past is partial (in the senses both of incomplete and ideological) where are we to draw the line between legitimate editorial assistance and unwarranted interference? In what innovative ways might current controversies surrounding the mediation of Shakespeare's drama shape future editorial practice? Focusing on key points of debate and controversy, this collection makes a vital contribution to a better understanding of how editorial practice (on the page and in cyberspace) might develop in the twenty-first century.

Author : Louis B. Wright
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1978-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 091801655X

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Folger Library, Two Decades of Growth by Louis B. Wright Pdf

Author : Andrew Gurr,Mariko Ichikawa
Publisher : Oxford Shakespeare Topics
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,6 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 : Peter Thomson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136113567

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Shakespeare's Theatre by Peter Thomson Pdf

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 : Hugh Macrae Richmond
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781847146113

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Shakespeare's Theatre by Hugh Macrae Richmond Pdf

Shakespeare's Theatre consolidates the author's forty years of experience in studying and staging Shakespeare's plays. 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. Coverage includes the practices of Elizabethan actors and script writers: methods of characterization; gesture, blocking and choreography, including music, dance and fighting; actors' rhetorical interaction with audiences; and use of costumes, stage props, and make-up. The author makes use of scripts and scholarship about original stagings of Shakespeare and suggests how those productions related to modern staging. Much of this material has developed as a result of the recent increased interest in the significance of performance for interpreting Shakespeare, including the recovery of the archaeological evidence about the original Rose and Globe Theaters. The book contains current bibliographies for each topic and consolidates these in an overall bibliography for Shakespeare and his theaters.

Author : Claire M. L. Bourne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350128163

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Shakespeare / Text by Claire M. L. Bourne Pdf

Shakespeare / Text sets new agendas for the study and use of the Shakespearean text. Written by 20 leading experts on textual matters, each chapter challenges a single entrenched binary – such as book/theatre, source/adaptation, text/paratext, canon/apocrypha, sense/nonsense, extant/ephemeral, material/digital and original/copy – that has come to both define and limit the way we read, analyze, teach, perform and edit Shakespeare today. Drawing on methods from book history, bibliography, editorial theory, library science, the digital humanities, theatre studies and literary criticism, the collection as a whole proposes that our understanding of Shakespeare – and early modern drama more broadly – changes radically when 'either/or' approaches to the Shakespearean text are reconfigured. The chapters in Shakespeare / Text make strong cases for challenging received wisdom and offer new, portable methods of treating 'the text', in its myriad instantiations, that will be useful to scholars, editors, theatre practitioners, teachers and librarians.

Author : Christopher J. Cobb
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0874139716

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The Staging of Romance in Late Shakespeare by Christopher J. Cobb Pdf

This book examines Shakespeare's response in his late plays to the challenge of making romance stories believable through theatrical representation and the kind of experience the late plays in performance seek to create for their spectators. Taking The Winter's Tale as a case study, the book's central chapters demonstrate how Shakespeare tests and transforms the techniques to create the sweeping, restorative transformations of individuals and communities that are central to both earlier dramatic romances and Shakespeare's own romance experiments. The book's three other chapters address the methodologies for study of spectator's experience through a dramatic text, the history of dramatic romance to 1610, and Shakespeare's further experiments with the staging of romance after The Winter's Tale.-

Author : Ronald L. Dotterer
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0941664929

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Shakespeare by Ronald L. Dotterer Pdf

Seventeen critics are represented in this collection of essays designed to illustrate the vitality and range of traditional and new approaches to Shakespeare studies.

Author : William B. Worthen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,6 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 : David Bevington
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780226044798

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This Wide and Universal Theater by David Bevington Pdf

This study examines how Shakespeare's plays have been transformed for the stage by the demands of theatrical spaces and staging conventions.

Author : Ladina Bezzola Lambert,Balz Engler
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0874138604

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Shifting the Scene by Ladina Bezzola Lambert,Balz Engler Pdf

The title of this collection, Shifting the Scene, adapts words from one of the Choruses in Henry V. Its essays try, without denying authority to the text and the theatre, to widen the scene of inquiry to include other institutions, like education, politics, language, and the arts, and to juxtapose the constructions of Shakespeare and his works that have been produced by them. However, as in Henry V, there is also a geographical dimension. The collection goes beyond England and the English-speaking world and focuses on Europe (including Britain). It brings together 17 essays by leading authorities and promising young scholars in the field

Author : Don Weingust
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135864101

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Acting from Shakespeare's First Folio by Don Weingust Pdf

æOriginalÆ Shakespearean theatrical architecture, texts and performance methodologies have become subjects of great popular, professional and academic theatrical interest. Acting from Shakespeare's First Folio: Theory, Text & Performance examines a.

Author : Niels Bugge Hansen,Søs Haugaard
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Drama
ISBN : 8763502615

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Charting Shakespearean Waters by Niels Bugge Hansen,Søs Haugaard Pdf

This volume contains 11 new papers on Shakespeare written by members of the Department of English at the University of Copenhagen and other Danish universities plus a few international Shakespeare scholars. They fit into an overall theme and are included because they are about Shakespeare -- as text, as theatre, in his age, and through the ages. Beside showing many different ways of thinking and writing about Shakespeare, the eleven articles fall into a pattern if read together in the order they are printed. The papers are varied and wide-ranging: contemporary contexts, tradition, language and style, performance, translation and modern appropriation.