Performing Early Modern Drama Today
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Author |
: Pascale Aebischer |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 263 |
Release |
: 2012-10-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781139788533 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1139788531 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Performing Early Modern Drama Today by : Pascale Aebischer
While much attention has been devoted to performances of Shakespeare's plays today, little has been focused on modern productions of the plays of his contemporaries, such as Marlowe, Webster and Jonson. Performing Early Modern Drama Today offers an overview of early modern performance, featuring chapters by academics, teachers and practitioners, incorporating a variety of approaches. The book examines modern performances in both Britain and America and includes interviews with influential directors, close analysis of particular stage and screen adaptations and detailed appendices of professional and amateur productions. Chapters examine intellectual and practical opportunities to analyse what is at stake when the plays of Shakespeare's contemporaries are performed by ours. Whether experimenting with original performance practices or contemporary theatrical and cinematic ones, productions of early modern drama offer an inspiring, sometimes unusual, always interesting perspective on the plays they interpret for modern audiences.
Author |
: Pascale Aebischer |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 263 |
Release |
: 2012-10-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780521193351 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0521193354 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Performing Early Modern Drama Today by : Pascale Aebischer
Recent performances of early modern plays are analysed in essays by practitioners and academics, featuring critical, pedagogical and practical approaches.
Author |
: Pascale Aebischer |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 247 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1139777173 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781139777179 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Performing Early Modern Drama Today: Early modern drama on screen by : Pascale Aebischer
"While much attention has been devoted to performances of Shakespeare's plays today, little has been focused on modern productions of the plays of his contemporaries, such as Marlowe, Webster and Jonson. Performing Early Modern Drama Today offers an overview of early modern performance, featuring chapters by academics, teachers, and practitioners, incorporating a variety of approaches. The book examines modern performances in both Britain and America and includes interviews with influential directors, close analysis of particular stage and screen adaptations and detailed appendices of professional and amateur productions. Chapters examine intellectual and practical opportunities to analyse what is at stake when the plays of Shakespeare's contemporaries are performed by ours"--Provided by publisher.
Author |
: Pascale Aebischer |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 247 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1139793071 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781139793070 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Performing Early Modern Drama Today: The actors' Renaissance season at the Blackfriars Playhouse by : Pascale Aebischer
"While much attention has been devoted to performances of Shakespeare's plays today, little has been focused on modern productions of the plays of his contemporaries, such as Marlowe, Webster and Jonson. Performing Early Modern Drama Today offers an overview of early modern performance, featuring chapters by academics, teachers, and practitioners, incorporating a variety of approaches. The book examines modern performances in both Britain and America and includes interviews with influential directors, close analysis of particular stage and screen adaptations and detailed appendices of professional and amateur productions. Chapters examine intellectual and practical opportunities to analyse what is at stake when the plays of Shakespeare's contemporaries are performed by ours"--Provided by publisher.
Author |
: Harry R. McCarthy |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 169 |
Release |
: 2020-11-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108897754 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108897754 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis Performing Early Modern Drama Beyond Shakespeare by : Harry R. McCarthy
This Element provides the first in-depth study of the present-day all-boy company, Edward's Boys, who are based at King Edward VI School ('Shakespeare's School') in Stratford-upon-Avon. Since 2005, the company has produced a wide array of early modern plays, providing the most substantial repertory of early modern drama available for examination by scholars. The Element provides a comprehensive account of the company's practices, drawing on extensive rehearsal and performance observation, evidence from the company's archive, and interviews with actors and key company personnel. The Element takes account of the company's particular educational and strongly interpersonal environment, suggesting that these factors have a distinctive shaping force on their performance practice. In the hands of Edward's Boys, the Element argues, early modern drama becomes the source of company creation, ensemble practice, and virtuosic physical play, inviting us to reimagine what it means – and takes – to perform these plays today.
Author |
: Pascale Aebischer |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 247 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1139778692 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781139778695 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis Performing Early Modern Drama Today: 'A freshly creepy reality' : Jacobean tragedy and realist acting on the contemporary stage by : Pascale Aebischer
"While much attention has been devoted to performances of Shakespeare's plays today, little has been focused on modern productions of the plays of his contemporaries, such as Marlowe, Webster and Jonson. Performing Early Modern Drama Today offers an overview of early modern performance, featuring chapters by academics, teachers, and practitioners, incorporating a variety of approaches. The book examines modern performances in both Britain and America and includes interviews with influential directors, close analysis of particular stage and screen adaptations and detailed appendices of professional and amateur productions. Chapters examine intellectual and practical opportunities to analyse what is at stake when the plays of Shakespeare's contemporaries are performed by ours"--Provided by publisher.
Author |
: Pascale Aebischer |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 247 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1139783149 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781139783149 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Performing Early Modern Drama Today: Dido, Queen of Carthage : site-specific Marlowe by : Pascale Aebischer
"While much attention has been devoted to performances of Shakespeare's plays today, little has been focused on modern productions of the plays of his contemporaries, such as Marlowe, Webster and Jonson. Performing Early Modern Drama Today offers an overview of early modern performance, featuring chapters by academics, teachers, and practitioners, incorporating a variety of approaches. The book examines modern performances in both Britain and America and includes interviews with influential directors, close analysis of particular stage and screen adaptations and detailed appendices of professional and amateur productions. Chapters examine intellectual and practical opportunities to analyse what is at stake when the plays of Shakespeare's contemporaries are performed by ours"--Provided by publisher.
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 |
: 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.
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.