Shakespeares Plays In Performance
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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 on Theatre
| Author | : William Shakespeare |
| Publisher | : Hal Leonard Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 2013-04-01 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 1623160332 |
(Book). Shakespeare was a man of the theatre to his core, so it is no surprise that he repeatedly contemplated the nuts and bolts of his craft in his plays and poems. Shakespeare scholar Nick de Somogyi here draws together all the cherishable set pieces including "All the world's a stage," Hamlet's encounters with the Players, and Bottom's amateur theatricals along with many other oblique but no less revealing glances, and further insights into theatre practice by Shakespeare's contemporaries and rivals. De Somogyi's commentary takes us through the entire process of Shakespeare's theatrical production, from its casting and auditions, via rehearsals, costumes, and props, to its premiere and audience reception. Shakespeare on Theatre eavesdrops on the urgently whispered noises-off in the "tiring-house" and inhales the heady aroma of the Globe's first audiences.
Cutting Plays for Performance
| Author | : Toby Malone |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 156 |
| Release | : 2021-12-09 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1000488519 |
Cutting Plays for Performance offers a practical guide for cutting a wide variety of classical and modern plays. This essential text offers insight into the various reasons for cutting, methods to serve different purposes (time, audience, story), and suggests ways of communicating cuts to a production team. Dealing with every aspect of the editing process, it covers structural issues, such as plot beats, rhetorical concepts, and legal considerations, why and when to cut, how to cut with a particular goal in mind such as time constraints, audience and storytelling, and ways of communicating cuts to a production team. A set of practical worksheets to assist with the planning and execution of cuts, as well as step-by-step examples of the process from beginning to end in particular plays help to round out the full range of skills and techniques that are required when approaching this key theatre-making task. This is the first systematic guide for those who need to cut play texts. Directors, dramaturgs, and teachers at every level from students to seasoned professionals will find this an indispensable tool throughout their careers.
Shakespeare's Theatres and the Effects of Performance
| Author | : Farah Karim Cooper |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 317 |
| Release | : 2015-01-05 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 1408157055 |
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.
Shakespeare's Plays in Performance
| Author | : John Russell Brown |
| Publisher | : Hal Leonard Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9781557831361 |
A former Associate Director for London's National Theatre invites readers to behold the fuller meaning of Shakespearean text as played, inviting them to seek their insights in Shakespeare's natural habitat: the stage. Includes considerations of recent productions at the Hartford Stage, Theatre for a New Audience, and the New York Shakespeare Festival.
Shakespeare's Theatre
| Author | : Peter Thomson |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 221 |
| Release | : 2013-06-17 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1136113568 |
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
Understanding Shakespeare's Plays in Performance
| Author | : Jay L. Halio |
| Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
| Total Pages | : 120 |
| Release | : 1988 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780719026997 |
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.
Shakespeare and Feminist Performance
| Author | : Sarah Werner |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 146 |
| Release | : 2005-07-08 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1134588038 |
How do performances of Shakespeare change the meanings of the plays? In this controversial new book, Sarah Werner argues that the text of a Shakespeare play is only one of the many factors that give a performance its meaning. By focusing on The Royal Shakespeare Company, Werner demonstrates how actor training, company management and gender politics fundamentally affect both how a production is created and the interpretations it can suggest. Werner concentrates particularly on: The influential training methods of Cicely Berry and Patsy Rodenburg The history of the RSC Women's Group Gale Edwards' production of The Taming of the Shrew She reveals that no performance of Shakespeare is able to bring the plays to life or to realise the playwright's intentions without shaping them to mirror our own assumptions. By examining the ideological implications of performance practices, this book will help all interested in Shakespeare's plays to explore what it means to study them in performance.
