Pre-restoration Stage Studies
Author : William John Lawrence
Publisher :
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 23,56 MB
Release : 1927
Category : English drama
ISBN :
Author : William John Lawrence
Publisher :
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 23,56 MB
Release : 1927
Category : English drama
ISBN :
Author : William John Lawrence
Publisher :
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 24,56 MB
Release : 1967
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Author : William John Lawrence
Publisher :
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 47,40 MB
Release : 1967
Category : English drama
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Author : Stanley Wells
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 48,26 MB
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0191090107
This volume presents a winning selection of the very best essays from the long and distinguished career of Stanley Wells, one of the most well-known and respected Shakespeare scholars in the world. Wells's accomplishments include editing the entire canon of Shakespeare plays for the ground-breaking Oxford Shakespeare, and over his lifetime he has made significant contributions to debates over literary criticism of the works, genre study, textual theory, Shakespeare's afterlife in the theatre, and contemporary performance. The volume is introduced by Peter Holland, and its thirty chapters are divided into themed sections: 'Shakespearian Influences', 'Essays on Particular Works', 'Shakespeare in the Theatre', and 'Shakespeare's Text'. An afterword by Margreta de Grazia concludes the volume.
Author : Deborah Payne Fisk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 13,18 MB
Release : 2000-05-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521588126
Fourteen specially commissioned essays provide essential information about staging, playwrights, themes and genres in the drama of the Restoration.
Author : North Carolina State University. Graduate School
Publisher :
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 15,28 MB
Release : 1920
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Author : Cécile de Banke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 44,20 MB
Release : 2014-08-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1317652800
An absorbing and original addition to Shakespeareana, this handbook of production is for all lovers of Shakespeare whether producer, player, scholar or spectator. In four sections, Staging, Actors and Acting, Costume, Music and Dance, it traces Shakespearean production from Elizabethan times to the 1950s when the book was originally published. This book suggests that Shakespeare should be performed today on the type of stage for which his plays were written. It analyses the development of the Elizabethan stage, from crude inn-yard performances to the building and use of the famous Globe. Since the Globe saw the enactment of some of the Bard’s greatest dramas, its construction, properties, stage devices, and sound effects are reviewed in detail with suggestions on how a producer can create the same effects on a modern or reconstructed Elizabethan stage. Shakespeare’s plays were written to fit particular groups of actors. The book gives descriptions of the men who formed the acting companies of Elizabethan London and of the actors of Shakespeare’s own company, giving insights into the training and acting that Shakespeare advocated. With full descriptions and pages of reproductions, the costume section shows the types of dress necessary for each play, along with accessories and trimmings. A table of Elizabethan fabrics and colours is included. The final section explores the little-known and interesting story of the integral part of music and dance in Shakespeare’s works. Scene by scene the section discusses appropriate music or song for each play and supplies substitute ideas for Elizabethan instruments. Various dances are described – among them the pavan, gailliard, canary and courante. This book is an invaluable wealth of research, with extensive bibliographies and extra information.
Author : University of North Carolina (1793-1962)
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 19,78 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Research
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Author : Brett Gamboa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 33,10 MB
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1108278779
In the first comprehensive study of how Shakespeare designed his plays to suit his playing company, Brett Gamboa demonstrates how Shakespeare turned his limitations to creative advantage, and how doubling roles suited his unique sense of the dramatic. By attending closely to their dramaturgical structures, Gamboa analyses casting requirements for the plays Shakespeare wrote for the company between 1594 and 1610, and describes how using the embedded casting patterns can enhance their thematic and theatrical potential. Drawing on historical records, dramatic theory, and contemporary performance this innovative work questions received ideas about early modern staging and provides scholars and contemporary theatre practitioners with a valuable guide to understanding how casting can help facilitate audience engagement. Supported by an appendix of speculative doubling charts for plays, illustrations, and online resources, this is a major contribution to the understanding of Shakespeare's dramatic craft.
Author : George Watson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1322 pages
File Size : 35,38 MB
Release : 1974-08-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521200042
More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 1 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.