Shakespeare and the Making of Theatre

Shakespeare and the Making of Theatre
Author: Paul Edmondson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2012-10-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137284935

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.

Shakespeare and the Making of Theatre

Shakespeare and the Making of Theatre
Author: Paul Edmondson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2012-10-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 135031692X

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.

Making Shakespeare

Making Shakespeare
Author: Tiffany Stern
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2004
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 041531965X

This volume offers a lively introduction to the major issues of the stage and print history of the plays, and discusses what a Shakespeare play actually is.

Rough Magic

Rough Magic
Author: Steven Adler
Publisher: SIU Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2001
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780809323760

Broadway stage manager, director, and teacher Steven Adler discusses the history of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC). During six years of research, Adler attended more than 40 RSC productions. The text is based largely upon interviews with more than 60 members of the Company, including actors, directors, stagehands, designers, producers, stage managers, craftspeople, and administrators. Coverage includes theater facilities, budgeting, producing, directing, designing, and acting. c. Book News Inc.

This Wide and Universal Theater

This Wide and Universal Theater
Author: David Bevington
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2009-05
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0226044793

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

Shakespeare's Theatre

Shakespeare's Theatre
Author: Peter Thomson
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1992
Genre: Theater
ISBN: 9780415051484

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

Making Shakespeare

Making Shakespeare
Author: Tiffany Stern
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2004
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780415319645

This volume offers a lively introduction to the major issues of the stage and print history of the plays, and discusses what a Shakespeare play actually is.

Shakespeare the Player

Shakespeare the Player
Author: John Southworth
Publisher: The History Press
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2011-10-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0752472445

Man of the Millennium' he may be but William Shakespeare is a shadowy historical figures. His writings have been analysed exhaustively but much of his life remains a mystery. This controversial biography aims to redress the balance. To his contemporaries, Shakespeare was known not as a playwright but as an actor, yet this has been largely ignored or marginalised by most modern writers. here John Southworth overturns traditional images of the Bard and his work, arguing that Shakespeare cannot be separated from his profession as a player any more than he can be separated from his works. Only by approaching Shakespeare's life from this new angle can we hope to learn or understand anything new about him. Following Shakespeare's life as an actor as he learns his craft and begins work on his own plays, Southworth presents the Bard and his plays in their proper context for the first time. Groundbreaking, contentious and a work of deep scholarship and understanding, 'Shakespeare the Player' should change the way we think about the English language's greatest artist.

A Short History of Shakespeare in Performance

A Short History of Shakespeare in Performance
Author: Richard Schoch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2021-05-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 110878867X

This short history of Shakespeare in global performance-from the re-opening of London theatres upon the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 to our present multicultural day-provides a comprehensive overview of Shakespeare's theatrical afterlife and introduces categories of analysis and understanding to make that afterlife intellectually meaningful. Written for both the advanced student and the practicing scholar, this work enables readers to situate themselves historically in the broad field of Shakespeare performance studies and equips them with analytical tools and conceptual frameworks for making their own contributions to the field.