Harrison's Description of England in Shakspere's Youth
Author : William Harrison
Publisher :
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 30,60 MB
Release : 1908
Category : England
ISBN :
Author : William Harrison
Publisher :
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 30,60 MB
Release : 1908
Category : England
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Author : Maggs Bros
Publisher :
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 40,14 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
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Author : Cécile de Banke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 21,30 MB
Release : 2014-08-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1317652800
An absorbing and original addition to Shakespeareana, this handbook of production is for all lovers of Shakespeare whether producer, player, scholar or spectator. In four sections, Staging, Actors and Acting, Costume, Music and Dance, it traces Shakespearean production from Elizabethan times to the 1950s when the book was originally published. This book suggests that Shakespeare should be performed today on the type of stage for which his plays were written. It analyses the development of the Elizabethan stage, from crude inn-yard performances to the building and use of the famous Globe. Since the Globe saw the enactment of some of the Bard’s greatest dramas, its construction, properties, stage devices, and sound effects are reviewed in detail with suggestions on how a producer can create the same effects on a modern or reconstructed Elizabethan stage. Shakespeare’s plays were written to fit particular groups of actors. The book gives descriptions of the men who formed the acting companies of Elizabethan London and of the actors of Shakespeare’s own company, giving insights into the training and acting that Shakespeare advocated. With full descriptions and pages of reproductions, the costume section shows the types of dress necessary for each play, along with accessories and trimmings. A table of Elizabethan fabrics and colours is included. The final section explores the little-known and interesting story of the integral part of music and dance in Shakespeare’s works. Scene by scene the section discusses appropriate music or song for each play and supplies substitute ideas for Elizabethan instruments. Various dances are described – among them the pavan, gailliard, canary and courante. This book is an invaluable wealth of research, with extensive bibliographies and extra information.
Author : Edmund Kerchever Chambers
Publisher :
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 28,58 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Actors
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Author : William Harrison
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 33,49 MB
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486282756
Presents a portrait of daily life in Tudor England, including food and diet, laws, clothing, punishments for criminals, languages, lodging, and the appearance of the people.
Author : Kathryn Prince
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 35,34 MB
Release : 2011-02-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1135896585
Based on extensive archival research, Shakespeare in the Victorian Periodicals offers an entirely new perspective on popular Shakespeare reception by focusing on articles published in Victorian periodicals. Shakespeare had already reached the apex of British culture in the previous century, becoming the national poet of the middle and upper classes, but during the Victorian era he was embraced by more marginal groups. If Shakespeare was sometimes employed as an instrument of enculturation, imposed on these groups, he was also used by them to resist this cultural hegemony.
Author : Emma Kay
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 20,64 MB
Release : 2022-07-28
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1399008986
Food historian Emma Kay tells the story of our centuries-old relationship with herbs. From herbalists of old to contemporary cooking, this book reveals the magical and medicinal properties of your favourite plants in colorful, compelling detail. At one time, every village in Britain had a herbalist. A History of Herbalism investigates the lives of women and men who used herbs to administer treatment and knew the benefit of each. Meet Dr Richard Shephard of Preston, who cultivated angelica on his estate in the eighteenth century for the sick and injured; or Nicholas Culpeper, a botanist who catalogued the pharmaceutical benefits of herbs for early literary society. But herbs were not only medicinal. Countless cultures and beliefs as far back as prehistoric times incorporated herbs into their practices: paganism, witchcraft, religion and even astrology. Take a walk through a medieval ‘physick’ garden, or Early Britain, and learn the ancient rituals to fend off evil powers, protect or bewitch or even attract a lover. The wake of modern medicine saw a shift away from herbal treatments, with rituals and spells shrouded with superstition as the years wore on. The author reveals how herbs became more culinary rather than medicinal including accounts of recent trends for herbal remedies as lockdown and the pandemic leads us to focus more on our health and wellbeing.
Author : Public Free Libraries (Manchester)
Publisher :
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 39,78 MB
Release : 1864
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Author : Ian W. Archer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 37,39 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521522168
A holistic approach to interpreting early modern London society.
Author : Avraham Oz
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 11,4 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780874134902
The theme of this book is disinheriting a father. Appropriating Shylock's Jewishness into the broader field of Otherness, and using The Merchant of Venice as a point of departure and a pivot of its discourse, The Yoke of Love is an intellectual foray into many issues and areas of thought suggested by the Shakespearean text, from cultural history and folklore to medieval philosophy and theology, from politics of the theatre to literary theory, from Jewish history to early modern debates on property, usury, and slavery - all converging in the cultural and theatrical deployment of prophetic riddles in the play involving inspired caskets, intriguing legal bonds, and problematic tokens of love. Tracing the conceptual history of prophecy since ancient times and relating it to relevant concepts such as conscience, wisdom, and time, The Yoke of Love establishes the special standing of the prophetic in early modern discourse and English Renaissance drama.