Shakespeare's Blackfriars Playhouse
Author : Irwin Smith
Publisher :
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 30,65 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Blackfriars Playhouse (London, England)
ISBN :
Shakespeare's Two Playhouses
Author : Sarah Dustagheer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 22,28 MB
Release : 2017-08-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108118283
Book Description
In what ways did playwrights like Shakespeare respond to the two urban locations of the Globe and the Blackfriars? What was the effect of their different acoustic and visual experiences on actors and audiences? What did the labels 'public' for the Globe and 'private' for the Blackfriars, actually mean in practice? Sarah Dustagheer offers the first in-depth, comparative analysis of the performance conditions of the two sites. This engaging study examines how the social, urban, sensory and historical characteristics of these playhouses affected dramatists, audiences and actors. Each chapter provides new interpretations of seminal King's Men's works written as the company began to perform in both settings, including The Alchemist, The Tempest and Henry VIII. Presenting a rich and compelling account of the two early modern theatres, the book also suggests fresh insights into recent contemporary productions at Shakespeare's Globe, London and the new Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.
The Comedy of Errors
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 39,30 MB
Release : 1898
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
ShakesFear and how to Cure it
Author : Ralph Alan Cohen
Publisher :
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 35,75 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN :
Book Description
This book is the new definitive guide to teaching students to love Shakespeare. ShakesFear proceeds from a very simple premise: William Shakespeare's plays were written for audiences to enjoy and not for readers to trudge through. Noted Shakespeare scholar Ralph Cohen's life is devoted to the notion that only through performance does the depth and complexity of Shakespeare's world comes to life. In this book, Dr. Cohen walks teachers through the process of making Shakespeare fun in the classroom by staging scenes and plays. He uses tricks and "ploys," arguments, and hypothetical questions to tease students into falling in love with the characters first, then the plays, and eventually the literature. - Publisher.
Peter and the Starcatcher (Acting Edition)
Author : Rick Elice
Publisher : Disney Editions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,65 MB
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781423184348
Book Description
The hilarious script for the Broadway play Peter and the Starcatcher is in the perfect format for performers and theater lovers. Actors will relish the opportunity to perfect the complex dialogue while fans of the play will delight in the humor and intricacies of the text.
Moving Shakespeare Indoors
Author : Andrew Gurr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 15,94 MB
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107040639
Book Description
This book examines the conditions of the original performances in seventeenth-century indoor theatres.
Shakespeare on Theatre
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 38,58 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 Shakespeare Secret
Author : J. L. Carrell
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 29,46 MB
Release : 2010-01-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0748116745
Book Description
A modern serial killer - hunting an ancient secret. A woman is left to die as the rebuilt Globe theatre burns. Another woman is drowned like Ophelia, skirts swirling in the water. A professor has his throat slashed open on the steps of Washington's Capitol building. A deadly serial killer is on the loose, modelling his murders on Shakespeare's plays. But why is he killing? And how can he be stopped? A gripping, shocking page turner, The Shakespeare Secret masterfully combines modern murder and startling true revelations from the life of Shakespeare. It has been acclaimed as one of the most compulsively readable thrillers of recent years.
Thunder at a Playhouse
Author : Peter Kanelos
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 18,76 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1575911264
Book Description
critical issues of early modern performance in fresh and vital ways. --
I, Iago
Author : Nicole Galland
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 14,33 MB
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0062200100
Book Description
“Nicole Galland is exceptionally well versed in the fine nuances of storytelling.” —St. Petersburg Times “Galland has an exceptional gift.” —Neal Stephenson The critically acclaimed author of The Fool's Tale, Nicole Galland now approaches William Shakespeare's classic drama of jealousy, betrayal, and murder from the opposite side. I, Iago is an ingenious, brilliantly crafted novel that allows one of literature's greatest villains--the deceitful schemer Iago, from the Bard's immortal tragedy, Othello--to take center stage in order to reveal his "true" motivations. This is Iago as you've never known him, his past and influences breathtakingly illuminated, in a fictional reexamination that explores the eternal question: is true evil the result of nature versus nurture...or something even more complicated?
