Shakespeare's Theatres and the Effects of Performance
Title | Shakespeare's Theatres and the Effects of Performance PDF eBook |
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.
Shakespeare's Theatres and the Effects of Performance
Title | Shakespeare's Theatres and the Effects of Performance PDF eBook |
Author | Farah Karim Cooper |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 317 |
Release | 2015-01-05 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1408174642 |
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.
Shakespeare on Theatre
Title | Shakespeare on Theatre PDF eBook |
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.
Shakespeare and the Cultures of Performance
Title | Shakespeare and the Cultures of Performance PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Edward Yachnin |
Publisher | Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | 232 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780754655855 |
Using the tools of theatre history in their investigation into the phenomenology of the performance experience, the essays here also consider the social, ideological and institutional contingencies that determine the production and reception of the living spectacle. The contributors strive to bring better understanding to Shakespeare's imaginative investment in the relationship between theatrical production and the emotional, intellectual and cultural effects of performance broadly defined in social terms.
Moving Shakespeare Indoors
Title | Moving Shakespeare Indoors PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Gurr |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 307 |
Release | 2014-03-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107040639 |
This book examines the conditions of the original performances in seventeenth-century indoor theatres.
Stages of Play
Title | Stages of Play PDF eBook |
Author | Michael W. Shurgot |
Publisher | University of Delaware Press |
Total Pages | 284 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780874136142 |
Rather than arguing for a "unified response" among spectators, as many scholars do, the book argues that when the plays are performed on thrust stages, the audience's reactions are actually seminal to the plays' intended dramatic effects.
Shakespeare's Plays in Performance
Title | Shakespeare's Plays in Performance PDF eBook |
Author | John Russell Brown |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 300 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Theater |
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