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Author | : Michael Hattaway |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2013-04-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1135032661 |
Elizabethan Popular Theatre surveys the Golden Age of English popular theatre: the 1590s, the age of Marlowe and the young Shakespeare. The book describes the staging practices, performance conditions and acting techniques of the period, focusing on five popular dramas: The Spanish Tragedy, Mucedorus, Edward II, Doctor Faustus and Titus Andronicus, as well as providing a comprehensive history of a variety of contemporary playhouse stages, performances, and players.
Author | : Michael Hattaway |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2013-04-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1135032653 |
Elizabethan Popular Theatre surveys the Golden Age of English popular theatre: the 1590s, the age of Marlowe and the young Shakespeare. The book describes the staging practices, performance conditions and acting techniques of the period, focusing on five popular dramas: The Spanish Tragedy, Mucedorus, Edward II, Doctor Faustus and Titus Andronicus, as well as providing a comprehensive history of a variety of contemporary playhouse stages, performances, and players.
Author | : Scott McMillin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Blakemore G. Evans |
Publisher | : New Amsterdam Books |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 1998-04-21 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1461710790 |
The purpose of this absorbing collection is to illuminate the world of the theatre by setting it squarely in its historical context. To that end, Professor Evans draws on the whole spectrum of Elizabethan-Jacobean writing, from official documents to diaries and letters. Part I, The Theatre and the World, deals, through contemporary writings, with the drama itself, the audiences and their responses, theatrical companies, acting and actors, and buildings and technical matters. Part II, The Worlds and the Theatre, illustrates how the problems of everyday life, complicated as they were by moral, religious, social, political, and economic issues, provided an ever-fruitful source of materials to the dramatists who practiced their craft during this extraordinarily creative period.
Author | : Adam Woog |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : |
Discusses the development of the English theater during the Elizabethan era, including the origins of Elizabethan theater and dramas, the influence of the queen and the church, and the impact of various playwrights and actors.
Author | : Scott McMillin |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 2019-06-30 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1501742647 |
The manuscript of the Elizabethan play Sir Thomas More has intrigued scholars for over a century because three of its pages may have been written by Shakespeare. The Elizabethan Theatre and "The Book of Sir Thomas More" sets aside the timeworn question of authorship and considers the play in a new framework, one which by focusing on questions of the theatre attempts to free Elizabethan theatre history from the grip of its most famous author. Bringing to bear on the manuscript the perspective of a theatre historian and the resources of textual scholarship, Scott McMillin departs from most critical accounts, which have judged Sir Thomas More unfinished. Rather, McMillin addresses the manuscript as a coherent and finished work that achieves its intended purpose: to serve as a prompt book in the Elizabethan playhouse. His systematic analysis of the Sir Thomas More manuscript shows that the company for which it was written was unusually large, that it had a lead actor of outstanding capability, and that in its staging of the play it probably made use of visual repetition as an ironic device. He concludes that the theatre company of the period that most closely matched this description was Lord Strange's men, a company, incidentally, for which Shakespeare himself was known to have written in the early 1590s. Textual scholars, theatre historians, and students and scholars of Elizabethan drama will welcome The Elizabethan Theatre and "The Book of Sir Thomas More."
Author | : Jean MacIntyre |
Publisher | : University of Alberta |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780888642264 |
The scripts of the Admiral's Men (later Prince Henry's Men), the Chamberlain's Men (later the King's Men) boy actors and Worcester's/Queen Anne's Men are examined in detail to document the differing costume practices of these companies, especially the ways in which in their earlier days they reconciled visual splendor with the greatest possible economy.
Author | : G.R. Hibbard |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1978-06-17 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1349029114 |
Author | : Alan C. Dessen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521311618 |
Alan Dessen reconstructs the stage in the Elizabethan era from scrutinising four hundred manuscripts.
Author | : Emma Smith |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2016-03-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317034449 |
Engaging with histories of the book and of reading, as well as with studies of material culture, this volume explores ’popularity’ in early modern English writings. Is ’popular’ best described as a theoretical or an empirical category in this period? How can we account for the gap between modern canonicity and early modern print popularity? How might we weight the evidence of popularity from citations, serial editions, print runs, reworkings, or extant copies? Is something that sells a lot always popular, even where the readership for print is only a small proportion of the population, or does popular need to carry something of its etymological sense of the public, the people? Four initial chapters sketch out the conceptual and evidential issues, while the second part of the book consists of ten short chapters-a ’hit parade’- in which eminent scholars take a genre or a single exemplar - play, romance, sermon, or almanac, among other categories-as a means to articulate more general issues. Throughout, the aim is to unpack and interrogate assumptions about the popular, and to decentre canonical narratives about, for example, the sermons of Donne or Andrewes over Smith, or the plays of Shakespeare over Mucedorus. Revisiting Elizabethan literary culture through the lenses of popularity, this collection allows us to view the subject from an unfamiliar angle-in which almanacs are more popular than sonnets and proclamations more numerous than plays, and in which authors familiar to us are displaced by names now often forgotten.