Henry VIII.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 38,70 MB
Release : 1786
Category :
ISBN :
Acting Companies and their Plays in Shakespeare’s London
Author : Siobhan Keenan
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 12,77 MB
Release : 2014-05-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1472575679
Book Description
Acting Companies and their Plays in Shakespeare's London explores the intimate and dynamic relationship between acting companies and playwrights in this seminal era in English theatre history. Siobhan Keenan's analysis includes chapters on the traditions and workings of contemporary acting companies, playwriting practices, stages and staging, audiences and patrons, each illustrated with detailed case studies of individual acting companies and their plays, including troupes such as Lady Elizabeth's players, 'Beeston's Boys' and the King's Men and works by Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, Brome and Heywood. We are accustomed to focusing on individual playwrights: Acting Companies and their Plays in Shakespeare's London makes the case that we also need to think about the companies for which dramatists wrote and with whose members they collaborated, if we wish to better understand the dramas of the English Renaissance stage.
Shakespeare on Theatre
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,39 MB
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1623160332
Book Description
(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.
The Works of William Shakespeare
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 45,66 MB
Release : 1623
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
Shakespeare in the Theatre: The King's Men
Author : Lucy Munro
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 13,8 MB
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1474262627
Book Description
Created when James I granted royal patronage to the former Chamberlain's Men in 1603, the King's Men were the first playing company to exercise a transformative influence on Shakespeare's plays. Not only did Shakespeare write his plays with them in mind, but they were also the first group to revive his plays, and the first to have them revised, either by Shakespeare himself or by other dramatists after his retirement. Drawing on theatre history, performance studies, cultural history and book history, Shakespeare in the Theatre: The King's Men reappraises the company as theatre artists, analysing in detail the performance practices, cultural contexts and political pressures that helped to shape and reshape Shakespeare's plays between 1603 and 1642. Reconsidering casting and acting styles, staging and playing venues, audience response, influence and popularity, and local, national and international politics, the book presents case-studies of performances of Macbeth, The Tempest, The Winter's Tale, Richard II, Henry VIII, Othello and Pericles alongside a broader reappraisal of the repertory of the company and the place of Shakespeare's plays within it.
The Shakespearean Stage 1574–1642
Author : Andrew Gurr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 24,53 MB
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1316284166
Book Description
For almost forty years The Shakespearean Stage has been considered the liveliest, most reliable and most entertaining overview of Shakespearean theatre in its own time. It is the only authoritative book that describes all the main features of the original staging of Shakespearean drama in one volume: the acting companies and their practices, the playhouses, the staging and the audiences. Thoroughly revised and updated, this fourth edition contains fresh materials about how specific plays by Shakespeare were first staged, and provides new information about the companies that staged them and their playhouses. The book incorporates everything that has been discovered in recent years about the early modern stage, including the archaeology of the Rose and the Globe. Also included is an invaluable appendix, listing all the plays known to have been performed at particular playhouses and by specific companies.
The Duchess of Malfi
Author : John Webster
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,49 MB
Release : 1997-06-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780719043574
Book Description
More widely studied and more frequently performed than ever before, John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi is here presented in an accessible and thoroughly up-to-date edition. Based on the Revels Plays text, the notes have been augmented to cast further light both on Webster's amazing dialogue and on the stage action. An entirely new introduction sets the tragedy in the context of pre-Civil War England and gives a revealing view of its imagery and dramatic action. From its well-documented early performances to the two productions seen in the West End of London in the 1995-96 season, a stage history gives an account of the play in performance. Students, actors, directors and theatre-goers will all find here a reappraisal of Webster's artistry in the greatest age of English theatre, which highlights why it has lived on stage with renewed force in the last decades of the twentieth century.
The First English Actresses
Author : Elizabeth Howe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 33,33 MB
Release : 1992-06-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521422109
Book Description
This book describes how and why women were permitted to act on the public stage after 1660 in England.
The Best Actors in the World
Author : David Grote
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 41,37 MB
Release : 2002-07-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Book Description
"Grote describes the company's reorganization as the King's Men, which led to the writing of Shakespeare's great tragedies, as well as the trials of the plague years, Shakespeare's retirement from the stage, the development of writers to replace him, and the burning of the Globe.".
Shakespeare and Lost Plays
Author : David McInnis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 13,82 MB
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1108843263
Book Description
Explores Shakespeare's plays in their most immediate context: the hundreds of plays known to original audiences, but lost to us.
