Book Description
A standard and essential reference work on English Renaissance theatre.
Author : Gerald Eades Bentley
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 22,2 MB
Release : 1941
Category : Actors
ISBN :
A standard and essential reference work on English Renaissance theatre.
Author : Gerald Eades Bentley
Publisher :
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 32,71 MB
Release : 1949
Category : Actors
ISBN :
Author : Keith Sturgess
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 30,92 MB
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1315301970
In this scholarly and entertaining book, first published in 1987, the author tells the story of Jacobean private theatre. Most of the best plays written after 1610, including Shakespeare’s late plays such as The Tempest, were written for the new breed of private playhouses – small, roofed and designed for an aristocratic, literary audience, as opposed to the larger, open-air houses such as the Globe and the Red Bull, catering for a popular, ‘lowbrow’ audience. The author discusses the polarisation of taste and the effect it had on literary criticism and theatre history. This title will be of interest to students of English Literature, Drama and Performance.
Author : Dorothy M. Farr
Publisher : Springer
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 22,67 MB
Release : 1979-06-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1349046485
Author : Edel Lamb
Publisher : Springer
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 44,33 MB
Release : 2008-11-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0230594735
This book investigates how the Children of Paul's (1599-1606) and the Children of the Queen's Revels (1600-13) defined their players as children and, via an analysis of their plays and theatrical practices, it examines early modern theatre as a site in which children have the opportunity to articulate their emerging selfhoods.
Author : Gerald Eades Bentley
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 31,77 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Actors
ISBN :
A standard and essential reference work on English Renaissance theatre.
Author : Margot Heinemann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,83 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521270526
The closing of the theatres by Parliament in 1642 is perhaps the best-known fact in the history of English drama. As the Parliamentary Puritans were then in power, it is easy to assume that all opponents of the theatre were Puritans, and that all Puritans were hostile to the drama. The reality was more interesting and more complicated. Margot Heinemann looks at Thomas Middleton's work in relation to the society and social movements of his time, and traces the connections this work may have had with radical, Parliamentarian or Puritan groups or movements. In the light of the recent work of seventeenth-century historians we can no longer see these complex opposition movements as uniformly anti-theatre or anti-dramatist. The book suggests fresh meanings and implications in Middleton's own writings, and helps towards rethinking the place of drama in the changing life of early Stuart England.
Author : Barbara Wooding
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 19,63 MB
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 131711065X
Even for scholars who have devoted their careers to the early modern theatre, the name John Lowin may not instantly evoke recognition-until now, the actor's life and contribution to the theatre of the period has never been the subject of a full-length publication. In this study, Barbara Wooding provides a comprehensive overview of the life and times of Lowin, a leader of the King's Men's Company and one of the greatest actors of the seventeenth century. She examines his involvement in the Jacobean/Caroline world as performer, citizen and company manager, and contextualizes his life and career within the socio-economic and political framework of the period. Although references to him in the archives are patchy and sporadic, information about his activities within the King's Men's Company is well documented. In the course of analysing less familiar plays of the period and the characters Lowin played in them, Wooding supplements critical understanding of the scope and range of Caroline drama. Because Lowin's career burgeoned after Shakespeare's and Burbage's death, his life in Southwark and his career with the same company furnishes the opportunity for an examination of the changing status of actors, and the exercising of their skills within the drama of the later playhouse period.
Author : Hugh Macrae Richmond
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 12,30 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826477767
Under an alphabetical list of relevant terms, names and concepts, the book reviews current knowledge of the character and operation of theatres in Shakespeare's time, with an explanation of their origins>
Author : John Orrell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 30,1 MB
Release : 1985-02-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0521255465
This book examines the stage works that Inigo Jones and John Webb who are responsible for the visual aspects of the masques performed at the various royal palaces in the seventeenth century. The author establishes Jones and Webb as the most effective London theatre builders and scene designers at this time.