Capuletta

Capuletta
Author: George Melville Baker
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 1868
Genre:
ISBN:

The Mimic Stage

The Mimic Stage
Author: George Melville Baker
Publisher:
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1869
Genre: Amateur plays
ISBN:

Shakespeare and Amateur Performance

Shakespeare and Amateur Performance
Author: Michael Dobson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2011-04-28
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1139496816

From the Hamlet acted on a galleon off Africa to the countless outdoor productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream that now defy each English summer, Shakespeare and Amateur Performance explores the unsung achievements of those outside the theatrical profession who have been determined to do Shakespeare themselves. Based on extensive research in previously unexplored archives, this generously illustrated and lively work of theatre history enriches our understanding of how and why Shakespeare's plays have mattered to generations of rude mechanicals and aristocratic dilettantes alike: from the days of the Theatres Royal to those of the Little Theatre Movement, from the pioneering Winter's Tale performed in eighteenth-century Salisbury to the Merchant of Venice performed by Allied prisoners for their Nazi captors, and from the how-to book which transforms Mercutio into Yankee Doodle to the Napoleonic counterspy who used Richard III as a tool of surveillance.

Emily Dickinson's Shakespeare

Emily Dickinson's Shakespeare
Author: Páraic Finnerty
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2006
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

"Through analysis of letters, journals, diaries, records, periodicals, newspapers, and marginalia, Finnerty juxtaposes Dickinson's engagement with Shakespeare with the responses of her contemporaries. Her Shakespeare emerges as an immoral dramatist and highly moral poet; a highbrow symbol of class and cultivation and a lowbrow popular entertainer; an impetus behind the emerging American theater criticism and an English author threatening American creativity; a writer culturally approved for women and yet one whose authority women often appropriated to critique their culture. Such a context allows the explication of Dickinson's specific references to Shakespeare and further conjecture about how she most likely read him."--BOOK JACKET.