Early Modern Actors And Shakespeares Theatre
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Author |
: Evelyn Tribble |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 238 |
Release |
: 2017-02-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781472576057 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1472576055 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Early Modern Actors and Shakespeare's Theatre by : Evelyn Tribble
What skills did Shakespeare's actors bring to their craft? How do these skills differ from those of contemporary actors? Early Modern Actors and Shakespeare's Theatre: Thinking with the Body examines the 'toolkit' of the early modern player and suggests new readings of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries through the lens of their many skills. Theatre is an ephemeral medium. Little remains to us of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries: some printed texts, scattered documents and records, and a few scraps of description, praise, and detraction. Because most of what survives are printed playbooks, students of English theatre find it easy to forget that much of what happened on the early modern stage took place within the gaps of written language: the implicit or explicit calls for fights, dances, military formations, feats of physical skill, song, and clowning. Theatre historians and textual editors have often ignored or denigrated such moments, seeing them merely as extraneous amusements or signs that the text has been 'corrupted' by actors. This book argues that recapturing a positive account of the skills and expertise of the early modern players will result in a more capacious understanding of the nature of theatricality in the period.
Author |
: Evelyn B. Tribble |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2017 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1472576063 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781472576064 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis Early Modern Actors and Shakespeare's Theatre by : Evelyn B. Tribble
Author |
: Farah Karim Cooper |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 317 |
Release |
: 2015-01-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781408157053 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1408157055 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shakespeare's Theatres and the Effects of Performance by : Farah Karim Cooper
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 |
: Richard Dutton |
Publisher |
: OUP Oxford |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2011-10-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0199697868 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780199697861 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theatre by : Richard Dutton
An international team of scholars examines the theatrical world in which Shakespeare worked, tracing the social, political, and patronage pressures under which actors operated. They also explore the practicalities of playing: acquiring scripts, theatres, rehearsing, lighting, music, props, boy actors, and the role of women in an 'all-male' world.
Author |
: Douglas Bruster |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 181 |
Release |
: 2004-08-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134313716 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134313713 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Prologues to Shakespeare's Theatre by : Douglas Bruster
This remarkable study shows how prologues ushered audience and actors through a rite of passage and how they can be seen to offer rich insight into what the early modern theatre was thought capable of achieving.
Author |
: Evelyn Tribble |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 142 |
Release |
: 2017-02-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781472576040 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1472576047 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis Early Modern Actors and Shakespeare's Theatre by : Evelyn Tribble
What skills did Shakespeare's actors bring to their craft? How do these skills differ from those of contemporary actors? Early Modern Actors and Shakespeare's Theatre: Thinking with the Body examines the 'toolkit' of the early modern player and suggests new readings of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries through the lens of their many skills. Theatre is an ephemeral medium. Little remains to us of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries: some printed texts, scattered documents and records, and a few scraps of description, praise, and detraction. Because most of what survives are printed playbooks, students of English theatre find it easy to forget that much of what happened on the early modern stage took place within the gaps of written language: the implicit or explicit calls for fights, dances, military formations, feats of physical skill, song, and clowning. Theatre historians and textual editors have often ignored or denigrated such moments, seeing them merely as extraneous amusements or signs that the text has been 'corrupted' by actors. This book argues that recapturing a positive account of the skills and expertise of the early modern players will result in a more capacious understanding of the nature of theatricality in the period.
Author |
: Robert Henke |
Publisher |
: University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages |
: 217 |
Release |
: 2015-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781609383619 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1609383613 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Poverty and Charity in Early Modern Theater and Performance by : Robert Henke
Whereas previous studies of poverty and early modern theatre have concentrated on England and the criminal rogue, Poverty and Charity in Early Modern Theatre and Performance takes a transnational approach, which reveals a greater range of attitudes and charitable practices regarding the poor than state poor laws and rogue books suggest. Close study of German and Latin beggar catalogues, popular songs performed in Italian piazzas, the Paduan actor-playwright Ruzante, the commedia dell’arte in both Italy and France, and Shakespeare demonstrate how early modern theatre and performance could reveal the gap between official policy and actual practices regarding the poor. The actor-based theatre and performance traditions examined in this study, which persistently explore felt connections between the itinerant actor and the vagabond beggar, evoke the poor through complex and variegated forms of imagination, thought, and feeling. Early modern theatre does not simply reflect the social ills of hunger, poverty, and degradation, but works them through the forms of poverty, involving displacement, condensation, exaggeration, projection, fictionalization, and marginalization. As the critical mass of medieval charity was put into question, the beggar-almsgiver encounter became more like a performance. But it was not a performance whose script was prewritten as the inevitable exposure of the dissembling beggar. Just as people’s attitudes toward the poor could rapidly change from skepticism to sympathy during famines and times of acute need, fictions of performance such as Edgar’s dazzling impersonation of a mad beggar in Shakespeare’s King Lear could prompt responses of sympathy and even radical calls for economic redistribution.
Author |
: Brett Gamboa |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 303 |
Release |
: 2018-05-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108417433 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108417434 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shakespeare's Double Plays by : Brett Gamboa
Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. 'Improbable fictions: Shakespeare's plays without the plays; 2. Versatility and verisimilitude on sixteenth-century stages; 3. Doubling in The Winter's Tale; 4. Dramaturgical directives and Shakespeare's cast size; 5. Doubling in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Romeo and Juliet; 6. Where the boys aren't; 7. Doubling in Twelfth Night and Othello; Epilogue: Ragozine and Shakespearean substitution; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.
Author |
: Robert I. Lublin |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 210 |
Release |
: 2016-05-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317159018 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317159012 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis Costuming the Shakespearean Stage by : Robert I. Lublin
Although scholars have long considered the material conditions surrounding the production of early modern drama, until now, no book-length examination has sought to explain what was worn on the period's stages and, more importantly, how articles of apparel were understood when seen by contemporary audiences. Robert Lublin's new study considers royal proclamations, religious writings, paintings, woodcuts, plays, historical accounts, sermons, and legal documents to investigate what Shakespearean actors actually wore in production and what cultural information those costumes conveyed. Four of the chapters of Costuming the Shakespearean Stage address 'categories of seeing': visually based semiotic systems according to which costumes constructed and conveyed information on the early modern stage. The four categories include gender, social station, nationality, and religion. The fifth chapter examines one play, Thomas Middleton's A Game at Chess, to show how costumes signified across the categories of seeing to establish a play's distinctive semiotics and visual aesthetic.
Author |
: Simon Smith |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 307 |
Release |
: 2022-03-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108489058 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108489052 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis Playing and Playgoing in Early Modern England by : Simon Smith
Offers a new, interdisciplinary account of early modern drama through the lens of playing and playgoing.