Author : Toby Forward
Publisher : Candlewick Press (MA)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,99 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Theater
ISBN : 9780763626945
In the present tense, tells of the times during which the Globe Theatre was built and gives its history; includes a pop-up theater, punch-out characters to use in it, and two booklets of scenes from Shakespeare's plays.
Author : Peter Thomson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 33,41 MB
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1136113568
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 : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 21,31 MB
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1623160332
(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.
Author : Farah Karim Cooper
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 31,63 MB
Release : 2015-01-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1408157055
How did Elizabethan and Jacobean acting companies create their visual and aural effects? What materials were available to them and how did they influence staging and writing? What impact did the sensations of theatre have on early modern audiences? How did the construction of the playhouses contribute to technological innovations in the theatre? What effect might these innovations have had on the writing of plays? Shakespeare's Theatres and The Effects of Performance is a landmark collection of essays by leading international scholars addressing these and other questions to create a unique and comprehensive overview of the practicalities and realities of the theatre in the early modern period.
Author : J. R. Mulryne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 24,73 MB
Release : 1997-06-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780521599887
The rebuilding of the Globe theatre (1599-1613) on London's Bankside, a few yards from the site of the playhouse in which many of Shakespeare's plays were first performed, must rank as one of the most imaginative enterprises of recent decades. It has aroused intense interest among scholars and the general public worldwide. This book offers a fully illustrated account of the research that has gone into the Globe reconstruction, drawing on the work of leading scholars, theatre people and craftsmen to provide an authoritative view of the twenty years of research and the hundreds of practical decisions entailed. Documents of the period are explored afresh; the techniques of timber-framed building and the decorative practices of Elizabethan craftsmen explained; and all of this reconciled with the requirements of the actors and restrictions of modern architectural design. The result is a book that will fascinate scholarly readers and laymen alike.
Author : Andrew Gurr
Publisher : Oxford Shakespeare Topics
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 22,13 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780198711582
By bringing together evidence from different sources--documentary, archaeological, and the play-texts themselves--Staging Shakespeare's Theatres reconstructs the ways in which the plays were originally staged in the theaters of Shakespeare's own time, and shows how the physical possibilities and limitations of these theaters affected both the writing and the performances. The book explains the conditions under which the early playwrights and players worked, their preparation of the plays for the stage, and their rehearsal practices. It looks at the quality of evidence supplied by the surviving play-texts, and the extant to which audiences of the time differed from modern audiences; and it gives vivid examples of how Elizabethan actors made use of gestures, costumes, props, and the theater's specific design features. Stage movement is analyzed through a careful study of how exits and entrances worked on such stages. The final chapter offers a thorough examination of Hamlet as a text for performance, excitingly returning the play to its original staging at the Globe.
Author : Wendy Greenhill
Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 31,85 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781403486103
To understand Shakespeare's plays, you need to know about the theaters and the audiences they were written for. Find out about how the plays were performed, and the actors who played in them. Discover what audiences were like when Shakespeare's plays were first performed and if theaters in Tudor England were comfortable places to visit. You will also find out which actors played the female characters in Shakespeare's theater.
Author : Jacqueline Morley
Publisher : Scribo
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,91 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9781905638598
Elizabethan London was a vibrant, growing city and theater, especially that of William Shakespeare, played a major role in its lively culture. There was even a different play every day of the week Here's your ticket to the Globe, the legendary 20-sided building where Shakespeare's plays were staged. Go backstage to discover how the theater was run, who chose the actors, how big an audience it could hold, and why it was build on the banks of the Thames. Extraordinary illustrations give a dramatic look at life and art in the sixteenth century. "
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 31,56 MB
Release : 1786
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Author : Aliki
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 17,94 MB
Release : 2000-08-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0064437221
From Hamlet to Romeo and Juliet to A Midsummer Night′s Dream, Shakespeare′s celebrated works have touched people around the world. Aliki combines literature, history, biography, archaeology, and architecture in this richly detailed and meticulously researched introduction to Shakespeare′s world-his life in Elizabethan times, the theater world, and the Globe, for which he wrote his plays. Then she brings history full circle to the present-day reconstruction of the Globe theater. Ages 8+
