A View of the English Stage

A View of the English Stage
Author: William Hazlitt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 282
Release: 1818
Genre: Acting
ISBN:

Collected dramatic criticism by William Hazlitt, one of the highest regarded critic and essayists in the history of the English language.

Feminist Views on the English Stage

Feminist Views on the English Stage
Author: Elaine Aston
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2003-11-24
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1139441531

Feminist Views on the English Stage, first published in 2003, is an exciting and insightful study on drama from a feminist perspective, one that challenges an idea of the 1990s as a 'post-feminist' decade and pays attention to women's playwriting marginalized by a 'renaissance' of angry young men. Working through a generational mix of writers, from Sarah Kane, the iconoclastic 'bad girl' of the stage, to the 'canonical' Caryl Churchill, Elaine Aston charts the significant political and aesthetic changes in women's playwriting at the century's end. Aston also explores writing for the 1990s in theatre by Sarah Daniels, Bryony Lavery, Phyllis Nagy, Winsome Pinnock, Rebecca Prichard, Judy Upton and Timberlake Wertenbaker.

Thinking Through Place on the Early Modern English Stage

Thinking Through Place on the Early Modern English Stage
Author: Andrew Bozio
Publisher:
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2020
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0198846568

The way that characters in early modern theatrical performance think through their surroundings is important in our understanding of perception, memory, and other forms of embodied affective thought. This book explores this concept in dramatic works by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Beaumont, and Jonson.

Gaming the Stage

Gaming the Stage
Author: Gina Bloom
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2018-07-10
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 0472053817

Illuminates the fascinating, intertwined histories of games and the Early Modern theater

Magic on the Early English Stage

Magic on the Early English Stage
Author: Philip Butterworth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2005-10-06
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780521825139

An original investigation into conjuring tricks and stage magic on the medieval stage.

The Place of the Stage

The Place of the Stage
Author: Steven Mullaney
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1995
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780472083466

Probes English society in the age of Shakespeare

Magical Transformations on the Early Modern English Stage

Magical Transformations on the Early Modern English Stage
Author: Professor Lisa Hopkins
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2014-10-28
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 147243286X

Considering a variety of questions centering on magic and, or in, performance, this volume furthers the debate about the cultural work performed by representations of magic on the early modern English stage. Collectively the essays show that the idea of transformation applies not only to the objects and subjects of magic, but that the plays themselves can be seen as working to effect transformation in the ways that they challenge contemporary assumptions and stereotypes.