Teaching Shakespeare and Early Modern Dramatists - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Teaching Shakespeare and Early Modern Dramatists write by A. Hiscock. This book was released on 2007-07-02. Teaching Shakespeare and Early Modern Dramatists available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection offers practical suggestions for the integration of non-Shakespearean drama into the teaching of Shakespeare. It shows both the ways in which Shakespearean drama is typical of its period and of the ways in which it is distinctive, by looking at Shakespeare and other writers who influenced and developed the genres in which he worked.
Women, Writing, and the Theater in the Early Modern Period
Women, Writing, and the Theater in the Early Modern Period - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women, Writing, and the Theater in the Early Modern Period write by Annette Kreis-Schinck. This book was released on 2001. Women, Writing, and the Theater in the Early Modern Period available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The previous revolutionary period in England had changed the nation enough for women's participation in all areas of society, politics, and religion to become feasible and visible. This emergent visibility gave them a chance to become actresses after 1661, and sparked their desire to offer contributions to the public stage after 1669."--BOOK JACKET.
How and Why We Teach Shakespeare
How and Why We Teach Shakespeare - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How and Why We Teach Shakespeare write by Sidney Homan. This book was released on 2019-05-15. How and Why We Teach Shakespeare available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In How and Why We Teach Shakespeare, 19 distinguished college teachers and directors draw from their personal experiences and share their methods and the reasons why they teach Shakespeare. The collection is divided into four sections: studying the text as a script for performance; exploring Shakespeare by performing; implementing specific techniques for getting into the plays; and working in different classrooms and settings. The contributors offer a rich variety of topics, including: working with cues in Shakespeare, such as line and mid-line endings that lead to questions of interpretation seeing Shakespeare’s stage directions and the Elizabethan playhouse itself as contributing to a play’s meaning using the "gamified" learning model or cue-cards to get into the text thinking of the classroom as a rehearsal playing the Friar to a student’s Juliet in a production of Romeo and Juliet teaching Shakespeare to inner-city students or in a country torn by political and social upheavals. For fellow instructors of Shakespeare, the contributors address their own philosophies of teaching, the relation between scholarship and performance, and—perhaps most of all—why in this age the study of Shakespeare is so important.
The Arden Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama
The Arden Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Arden Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama write by Michelle M. Dowd. This book was released on 2022-12-15. The Arden Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How does our understanding of early modern performance, culture and identity change when we decentre Shakespeare? And how might a more inclusive approach to early modern drama help enable students to discuss a range of issues, including race and gender, in more productive ways? Underpinned by these questions, this collection offers a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on drama in Shakespeare's England, mapping the variety of approaches to the context and work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. By paying attention to repertory, performance in and beyond playhouses, modes of performance, and lost and less-studied plays, the handbook reshapes our critical narratives about early modern drama. Chapters explore early modern drama through a range of cultural contexts and approaches, from material culture and emotion studies to early modern race work and new directions in disability and trans studies, as well as contemporary performance. Running through the collection is a shared focus on contemporary concerns, with contributors exploring how race, religion, environment, gender and sexuality animate 16th- and 17th-century drama and, crucially, the questions we bring to our study, teaching and research of it. The volume includes a ground-breaking assessment of the chronology of early modern drama, a survey of resources and an annotated bibliography to assist researchers as they pursue their own avenues of inquiry. Combining original research with an account of the current state of play, The Arden Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama will be an invaluable resource both for experienced scholars and for those beginning work in the field.
Games and Gaming in Early Modern Drama
Games and Gaming in Early Modern Drama - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Games and Gaming in Early Modern Drama write by Caroline Baird. This book was released on 2020-10-24. Games and Gaming in Early Modern Drama available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a close taxonomic study of the pivotal role of games in early modern drama. The presence of the game motif has often been noticed, but this study, the most comprehensive of its kind, shows how games operate in more complex ways than simple metaphor and can be syntheses of emblem and dramatic device. Drawing on seventeenth-century treatises, including Francis Willughby’s Book of Games, which only became available in print in 2003, and divided into chapters on Dice, Cards, Tables (Backgammon), and Chess, the book brings back into focus the symbolism and divinatory origins of games. The work of more than ten dramatists is analysed, from the Shakespeare and Middleton canon to rarer plays such as The Spanish Curate, The Two Angry Women of Abington and The Cittie Gallant. Games and theatre share common ground in terms of performance, deceit, plotting, risk and chance, and the early modern playhouse provided apt conditions for vicarious play. From the romantic chase to the financial gamble, and in legal contest and war, the twenty-first century is still engaging the game. With its extensive appendices, the book will appeal to readers interested in period games and those teaching or studying early modern drama, including theatre producers, and awareness of the vocabulary of period games will allow further references to be understood in non-dramatic texts.
