Sir William Davenant and the Duke's Company

Sir William Davenant and the Duke's Company
Author: Amanda Eubanks Winkler
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021
Genre: English drama
ISBN: 9781350130593

"Winkler and Schoch reveals how - and why - the first generation to stage Shakespeare after Shakespeare's lifetime changed absolutely everything. As leader of the Duke's Company, Davenant's influence on its approach to Shakespeare was profound and lasting. This book provides the first performance-based account of Restoration Shakespeare, exploring the precursors to Davenant's approach to Restoration Shakespeare, the cultural context of Restoration theatre, the theatre spaces in which the Duke's Company performed, Davenant's adaptations of Shakespeare's plays, acting styles, and the lasting legacy of Davenant's approach to staging Shakespeare"--

Shakespeare in the Theatre: Sir William Davenant and the Duke’s Company

Shakespeare in the Theatre: Sir William Davenant and the Duke’s Company
Author: Amanda Eubanks Winkler
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2023-05-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1350273481

Eubanks Winkler and Schoch reveal how – and why – the first generation to stage Shakespeare after Shakespeare's lifetime changed absolutely everything. Founder of the Duke's Company, Sir William Davenant influenced how Shakespeare was performed in a profound and lasting way. This open access book provides the first performance-based account of Restoration Shakespeare, exploring the precursors to Davenant's approach to Restoration Shakespeare, the cultural context of Restoration theatre, the theatre spaces in which the Duke's Company performed, Davenant's adaptations of Shakespeare's plays, acting styles, and the lasting legacy of Davenant's approach to staging Shakespeare. The eBook editions of this work are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Queen's University Belfast.

Shakespeare in the Theatre

Shakespeare in the Theatre
Author: Amanda Eubanks Winkler
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021
Genre:
ISBN: 9781350130609

This is the first book devoted to Restoration Shakespeare in performance, focusing on the pioneering achievements of Sir William Davenant (1606-1668) and the Duke's Company, which Davenant founded as the original patentee.

Macbeth; A Tragedy. with All the Alterations, Amendments, Additions, and New Songs [By Sir William Davenant]. as It Is Now Acted at the Dukes Theatre. [Anonymous.] - Scholar's Choice Edition

Macbeth; A Tragedy. with All the Alterations, Amendments, Additions, and New Songs [By Sir William Davenant]. as It Is Now Acted at the Dukes Theatre. [Anonymous.] - Scholar's Choice Edition
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Scholar's Choice
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2015-02-14
Genre:
ISBN: 9781298017758

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The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre

The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre
Author: Deborah Payne Fisk
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2000-05-11
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780521588126

Fourteen specially commissioned essays provide essential information about staging, playwrights, themes and genres in the drama of the Restoration.

Shakespeare's Bastard

Shakespeare's Bastard
Author: Simon Andrew Stirling
Publisher: The History Press
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2016-02-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0750968567

Sir William Davenant (1606–1668) – Poet Laureate and Civil War hero – is one of the most influential and neglected figures in the history of British theatre. He introduced 'opera', actresses, scenes and the proscenium arch to the English stage. Narrowly escaping execution for his Royalist activities during the Civil War, he revived theatrical performances in London, right under Oliver Cromwell's nose. Nobody, perhaps, did more to secure Shakespeare's reputation or to preserve the memory of the Bard. Davenant was known to boast over a glass of wine that he wrote 'with the very spirit' of Shakespeare and was happy to be thought of as Shakespeare's son. By recounting the story of his eventful life backwards, through his many trials and triumphs, this biography culminates with a fresh examination of the vexed issue of Davenant's paternity. Was Sir William's mother the voluptuous and maddening 'Dark Lady' of Shakespeare's Sonnets, and was he Shakespeare's 'lovely boy'?