Author : Julian Bowsher
Publisher : Mola (Museum of London Archaeology)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,73 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781907586125
In relation to the latest archaeological evidence Bowsher sets out the rich dramatic history of London theatrical venues from 1567 to 1642, detailing the builders, actors, playwrights and audiences: what they wore and ate, where they drank and fought, where they lived and died. He includes illustrations, quotes, jokes, and guides to walks.
Author : Peter Thomson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 13,80 MB
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1136113649
Reviews of the First Edition `...valuable and enjoyable reading for all studying Shakespeare's plays.' Following in the patternestablished by John Russell Brown for the excellent series (Theatre and Production Studies), he provides first an account of Shakespeare's company, then a study of three individual plays Twelfth Night, Hamlet and Macbeth as performed by the company. Peter Thomson writes in a crisp, sharp, enlivening style.' TLS '`...the best analysis yet of Elizabethan acting practices, excavated form the texts themselves rather than reconstructed on basis of one monolithic theory, and an essay on Hamlet that is a model of Critical intelligence and theatrical invention.' Yearbook of English Studies `Synthesizes the important facts and summarizes projects with a vigorous prose style, and expertly applies his experience in both practical drama and academic teaching to his discussion.' Review of English Studies
Author : Andrew Gurr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 50,93 MB
Release : 1996-09-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521574495
This is a new edition of Andrew Gurr's classic account of the people for whom Shakespeare wrote his plays. Gurr assembles all the evidence from the writings of the time to describe the physical structure of the different types of playhouse, the services provided in the auditorium, the cost of a ticket and a cushion, the size of the crowds, the smells, the pickpockets, and the collective feelings generated by the plays. Since 1987 there have been many new discoveries about Shakespeare's theatres. Gurr introduces fresh evidence about the experience of attending a play in Shakespeare's time, adds more than thirty new entries to his account of the early playgoers and provides a select bibliography.
Author : Maurice Jonas
Publisher :
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 42,70 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Theater
ISBN :
Author : Theodor Fontane
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 32,44 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :
Author : Louis Booker Wright
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 43,76 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780918016058
This volume presents a brief discussion about the characteristics of William Shakespeare's stages, the history of Elizabethan theaters, the physical conditions of the stage, the composition of the companies of actors, the influence of the physical nature of the stage upon the quality of the drama, and many other related topics. The plays of Shakespeare during his lifetime were performed on stages in private theaters, provincial theaters, and playhouses. His plays were acted out in the yards of bawdy inns and in the great halls of the London inns of court. Although the Globe is certainly the most well known of all the Renaissance stages associated with Shakespeare and is rightfully the primary focus of discussion, this work includes a brief introduction to some of the other Elizabethan theaters of the time in order to provide a more complete picture of the world in which Shakespeare lived and worked.
Author : Peter Sillitoe
Publisher : Exhibit A
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 39,95 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Theaters
ISBN :
Author : Gerald Eades Bentley
Publisher : Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 31,41 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :
Author : David Baird
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 21,93 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781840720389
This book is a celebration of the recently r econstructed Globe Theatre, made famous by a great literary figure, William Shakespeare. It includes fascinating facts a bout his life and works, and the projects to rebuild the Glo be Theatre. '
Author : Jane Shuter
Publisher : Raintree
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 27,31 MB
Release : 2014-01-30
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1406273406
Did you know that the only known purpose-built theatres in Shakespeare's England were in London and Bristol? Or that only boys and men could become actors? This fascinating book outlines the world of the theatre in which William Shakespeare wrote and did business, from outdoor and indoor theatres and the life of an actor and touring, to how plays were written, funded, and staged.
