Author : Douglas Bruster
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 11,16 MB
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 1134313713
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.
Author : Tiffany Stern
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 17,7 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Drama
ISBN : 041531965X
This volume offers a lively introduction to the major issues of the stage and print history of the plays, and discusses what a Shakespeare play actually is.
Author : Martha W. Driver
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 23,56 MB
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0786491655
Every generation reinvents Shakespeare for its own needs, imagining through its particular choices and emphases the Shakespeare that it values. The man himself was deeply involved in his own kind of historical reimagining. This collection of essays examines the playwright's medieval sources and inspiration, and how they shaped his works. With a foreword by Michael Almereyda (director of the Hamlet starring Ethan Hawke) and dramaturge Dakin Matthews, these thirteen essays analyze the ways in which our modern understanding of medieval life has been influenced by our appreciation of Shakespeare's plays.
Author : Niels Bugge Hansen
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 43,81 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9788763502610
This volume contains 11 new papers on Shakespeare written by members of the Department of English at the University of Copenhagen and other Danish universities plus a few international Shakespeare scholars. They fit into an overall theme and are included because they are about Shakespeare -- as text, as theatre, in his age, and through the ages. Beside showing many different ways of thinking and writing about Shakespeare, the eleven articles fall into a pattern if read together in the order they are printed. The papers are varied and wide-ranging: contemporary contexts, tradition, language and style, performance, translation and modern appropriation.
Author : Sara Munson Deats
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,35 MB
Release : 2015-04-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1441188576
Doctor Faustus, is Christopher Marlowe's most popular play and is often seen as one of the overwhelming triumphs of the English Renaissance. It has had a rich and varied critical history often arousing violent critical controversy. This guide offers students an introduction to its critical and performance history, surveying notable stage productions from its initial performance in 1594 to the present and including TV, audio and cinematic versions. It includes a keynote chapter outlining major areas of current research on the play and four new critical essays. Finally, a guide to critical, web-based and production-related resources and an annotated biography provide a basis for further individual research.
Author : Robert Cohen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 10,96 MB
Release : 2015-09-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1317429370
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.
Author : Tiffany Stern
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 25,74 MB
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1350051365
This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Rethinking Theatrical Documents brings together fifteen major scholars to analyse and theorise the documents, lost and found, that produced a play in Shakespeare's England. Showing how the playhouse frantically generated paratexts, it explores a rich variety of entangled documents, some known and some unknown: from before the play (drafts, casting lists, actors' parts); during the play (prologues, epilogues, title-boards); and after the play (playbooks, commonplace snippets, ballads) – though 'before', 'during' and 'after' intertwine in fascinating ways. By using collective intervention to rethink both theatre history and book history, it provides new ways of understanding plays critically, interpretatively, editorially, practically and textually.
Author : John Lewis Walker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 19,48 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Civilization, Classical, in literature
ISBN : 9780824066970
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Emma Depledge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 39,19 MB
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108667341
Shakespeare's rise to prominence was by no means inevitable. While he was popular in his lifetime, the number of new editions and revivals of his plays declined over the following decades. Emma Depledge uses the methodologies of book and theatre history to provide a re-assessment of the reputation and dissemination of Shakespeare during the Interregnum and Restoration. She demonstrates the crucial role of the Exclusion Crisis (1678–1682), a political crisis over the royal succession, as a foundational moment in Shakespeare's canonisation. The period saw a sudden surge of theatrical alterations and a significantly increased rate of new editions and stage revivals. In the wake of the Exclusion Crisis, Shakespeare's plays were made available on a scale not witnessed since the early seventeenth century, thus reversing what might otherwise have been a permanent disappearance of his drama from canonical familiarity and firmly establishing Shakespeare's work in the national cultural imagination.
Author : Barbara Hodgdon
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 21,63 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1405150238
A Companion to Shakespeare and Performance provides astate-of-the-art engagement with the rapidly developing field ofShakespeare performance studies. Redraws the boundaries of Shakespeare performance studies. Considers performance in a range of media, including in print,in the classroom, in the theatre, in film, on television and video,in multimedia and digital forms. Introduces important terms and contemporary areas of enquiry inShakespeare and performance. Raises questions about the dynamic interplay betweenShakespearean writing and the practices of contemporary performanceand performance studies. Written by an international group of major scholars, teachers,and professional theatre makers.
