Shakespeare The Elizabethan Plays
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Author | : Louis Montrose |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1996-06 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780226534831 |
Examines the role of Elizabethan drama in the shape of cultural belief, values, and understanding of political authority.
Author | : John Barton |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2010-11-10 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0307773914 |
Playing Shakespeare is the premier guide to understanding and appreciating the mastery of the world’s greatest playwright. Together with Royal Shakespeare Company actors–among them Patrick Stewart, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Ben Kingsley, and David Suchet–John Barton demonstrates how to adapt Elizabethan theater for the modern stage. The director begins by explicating Shakespeare’s verse and prose, speeches and soliloquies, and naturalistic and heightened language to discover the essence of his characters. In the second section, Barton and the actors explore nuance in Shakespearean theater, from evoking irony and ambiguity and striking the delicate balance of passion and profound intellectual thought, to finding new approaches to playing Shakespeare’s most controversial creation, Shylock, from The Merchant of Venice. A practical and essential guide, Playing Shakespeare will stand for years as the authoritative favorite among actors, scholars, teachers, and students.
Author | : R. E Pritchard |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2003-04-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0750952822 |
A collection of some of the best, wittiest and most unusual excerpts from 16th- and 17th-century writing. "Shakespeare's England" brings to life the variety, the energy and the harsh reality of England at this time. Providing a portrait of the age, it includes extracts from a wide variety of writers, taken from books, plays, poems, letters, diaries and pamphlets by and about Shakespeare's contemporaries. These include William Harrison and Fynes Moryson (providing descriptions of England), Nicholas Breton (on country life), Isabella Whitney and Thomas Dekker (on London life), Nashe (on struggling writers), Stubbes (with a Puritan view of Elizabethan enjoyments), Harsnet and Burton (on witches and spirits), John Donne (meditations on prayer and death), King James I (on tobacco) and Shakespeare himself.
Author | : David McInnis |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2021-03-25 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1108843263 |
Explores Shakespeare's plays in their most immediate context: the hundreds of plays known to original audiences, but lost to us.
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.
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 | : 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
Author | : Richard Hosley |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2017-03-27 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1351775057 |
The twenty-eight essays of this collection, first published in 1962, are the work of distinguished British, Canadian, and American scholars. The essays range widely over the field of Elizabethan drama, concentrating attention on Shakespeare and Marlowe but not neglecting earlier dramatists such as Kyd and Greene or later ones such as Heywood and Massinger. Among the general topics treated are the staging of the interludes, intrigue in Elizabethan tragedy, and Jacobean stage pastoralism. This title will be of interest to students of English literature.
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.
Author | : Lloyd Edward Kermode |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2009-03-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521899532 |
Examines a variety of plays between 1550-1600 to demonstrate how they asserted ideas and ideals of 'Englishness' for audiences.