Shakespeare's Stagecraft

Shakespeare's Stagecraft
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : 0521094356
ISBN-13 : 9780521094351
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis Shakespeare's Stagecraft by : J. L. Styan

Introduction to the study of Shakespeare's dramatic craftsmanship.

Shakespeare's Theatre

Shakespeare's Theatre
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 221
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ISBN-10 : 9781136113567
ISBN-13 : 1136113568
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis Shakespeare's Theatre by : Peter Thomson

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

Shakespeare's Theatre

Shakespeare's Theatre
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Publisher : A&C Black
Total Pages : 590
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ISBN-10 : 0826477763
ISBN-13 : 9780826477767
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis Shakespeare's Theatre by : Hugh Macrae Richmond

Under an alphabetical list of relevant terms, names and concepts, the book reviews current knowledge of the character and operation of theatres in Shakespeare's time, with an explanation of their origins>

Playwriting Playgoers in Shakespeare's Theater

Playwriting Playgoers in Shakespeare's Theater
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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 9780812249415
ISBN-13 : 0812249410
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis Playwriting Playgoers in Shakespeare's Theater by : Matteo A. Pangallo

Using a range of familiar and lesser-known print and manuscript plays, as well as literary accounts and documentary evidence, Playwriting Playgoers in Shakespeare's Theater shows how these playgoers wrote and revised to address what they assumed to be the needs of actors, readers, and the Master of the Revels; how they understood playhouse materials and practices; and how they crafted poetry for theatrical effects. The book also situates them in the context of the period's concepts of, and attitudes toward, playgoers' participation in the activity of playmaking. --Publisher description.

Radical Shakespeare

Radical Shakespeare
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 394
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ISBN-10 : 9781136575822
ISBN-13 : 1136575820
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis Radical Shakespeare by : Chris Fitter

This book argues that Shakespeare was permanently preoccupied with the brutality, corruption, and ultimate groundlessness of the political order of his state, and that the impact of original Tudor censorship, supplemented by the relatively depoliticizing aesthetic traditions of later centuries, have together obscured the consistent subversiveness of his work. Traditionally, Shakespeare’s political attitudes have been construed either as primarily conservative, or as essays in richly imaginative ambiguation, irreducible to settled viewpoints. Fitter contends that government censorship forced superficial acquiescence upon Shakespeare in establishment ideologies — monarchic, aristocratic and patriarchal — that were enunciated through rhetorical set pieces, but that Shakespeare the dramatist learned from Shakespeare the actor a variety of creative methods for sabotaging those perspectives in performance in the public theatres. Using historical contextualizations and recuperation of original performance values, the book argues that Shakespeare emerged as a radical writer not in middle age with King Lear and Coriolanus — plays whose radicalism is becoming widely recognized — but from his outset, with Henry VI and Taming of the Shrew. Recognizing Shakespeare’s allusiveness to 1590s controversies and dissident thought, and recovering the subtextual politics of Shakespeare’s distinctive stagecraft reveals populist, at times even radical meaning and a substantially new, and astonishingly interventionist, Shakespeare.

A Series of Papers on Shakespeare and the Theatre

A Series of Papers on Shakespeare and the Theatre
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : IND:32000002828350
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis A Series of Papers on Shakespeare and the Theatre by : Shakespeare Association (Great Britain)

Lighting the Shakespearean Stage, 1567 - 1642

Lighting the Shakespearean Stage, 1567 - 1642
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Publisher : SIU Press
Total Pages : 310
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ISBN-10 : 0809322757
ISBN-13 : 9780809322756
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis Lighting the Shakespearean Stage, 1567 - 1642 by : R. B. Graves

In Lighting the Shakespearean Stage, 1567–1642,R. B. Graves examines the lighting of early modern English drama from both historical and aesthetic perspectives. He traces the contrasting traditions of sunlit amphitheaters and candlelit hall playhouses, describes the different lighting techniques, and estimates the effect of these techniques both indoors and outdoors. Graves discusses the importance of stage lighting in determining the dramatic effect, even in cases where the manipulation of light was not under the direct control of the theater artists. He devotes a chapter to the early modern lighting equipment available to English Renaissance actors and surveys theatrical lighting before the construction of permanent playhouses in London. Elizabethan stage lighting, he argues, drew on both classical and medieval precedents.

Shakespeare on Theatre

Shakespeare on Theatre
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 151
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ISBN-10 : 9781317429371
ISBN-13 : 1317429370
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Synopsis Shakespeare on Theatre by : Robert Cohen

In Shakespeare on Theatre, master acting teacher Robert Cohen brilliantly scrutinises Shakespeare's implicit theories of acting, paying close attention to the plays themselves and providing a wealth of fascinating historical evidence. What he finds will surprise scholars and actors alike – that Shakespeare's drama and his practice as an actor were founded on realism, though one clearly distinct from the realism later found in Stanislavski. Shakespeare on Acting is an extraordinary introduction to the way the plays articulate a profound understanding of performance and reflect the life and times of a uniquely talented theatre-maker.

Shakespeare

Shakespeare
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Publisher : Partridge Publishing
Total Pages : 193
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ISBN-10 : 9781482838060
ISBN-13 : 1482838060
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis Shakespeare by : Dr. Surinder Mohan Devgun

William Shakespeare not only influenced the theatre of his contemporary age, but his influence on theatre comes down to our own age. His stagecraft, theatre architecture, and theatrical effects leave an indelible influence on Greek, Roman, Indian, Kabuki, and Western Theatre. This stagecraft of Shakespearean theatre helped the smooth and spontaneous flow of the action. This encompassed the human emotions and feelings. It proved purgative for the human heart. Shakespeare enlivened the printed page of the drama. The present work describes the comparative study of various theatre forms of East and West. Shakespeare successfully established a deep emotional relationship between the actors and the audience. The theatre became a passionate urge for the people with Shakespeare.