The Shakespearean Stage 1574–1642 - 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 Shakespearean Stage 1574–1642 write by Andrew Gurr. This book was released on 2009-03-26. The Shakespearean Stage 1574–1642 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For almost forty years The Shakespearean Stage has been considered the liveliest, most reliable and most entertaining overview of Shakespearean theatre in its own time. It is the only authoritative book that describes all the main features of the original staging of Shakespearean drama in one volume: the acting companies and their practices, the playhouses, the staging and the audiences. Thoroughly revised and updated, this fourth edition contains fresh materials about how specific plays by Shakespeare were first staged, and provides new information about the companies that staged them and their playhouses. The book incorporates everything that has been discovered in recent years about the early modern stage, including the archaeology of the Rose and the Globe. Also included is an invaluable appendix, listing all the plays known to have been performed at particular playhouses and by specific companies.
The Shakespearean Stage, 1574-1642
The Shakespearean Stage, 1574-1642 - 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 Shakespearean Stage, 1574-1642 write by Andrew Gurr. This book was released on 1992-01-23. The Shakespearean Stage, 1574-1642 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The only authoritative, one-volume book to describe all the main features of the original staging of Shakespearean drama.
Staging in Shakespeare's Theatres
Staging in Shakespeare's Theatres - 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 Staging in Shakespeare's Theatres write by Andrew Gurr. This book was released on 2000. Staging in Shakespeare's Theatres available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare
The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of 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 The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare write by Bruce R. Smith. This book was released on 2016. The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Shakespeare and the Staging of English History
Shakespeare and the Staging of English History - 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 Shakespeare and the Staging of English History write by Janette Dillon. This book was released on 2012-04-05. Shakespeare and the Staging of English History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. OXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICS General Editors: Peter Holland and Stanley Wells Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an authority in its field, and combines accessible style with original discussion of its subject. This new study of Shakespeare's English history plays looks at the plays through the lens of early modern staging, focusing on the recurrence of particular stage pictures and 'units of action', and seeking to show how these units function in particular and characteristic ways within the history plays. Through close analysis of stage practice and stage picture, the book builds a profile of the kinds of writing and staging that characterise a Shakespearean history play and that differentiate one history play from another. The first part of the book concentrates primarily on the stage, looking at the 'single' picture or tableau; the use of presenters or choric figures; and the creation of horizontally and vertically divided stage pictures. Later chapters focus more on the body: on how bodies move, gesture, occupy space, and handle objects in particular kinds of scenes. The book concludes by analysing the highly developed use of one crucial stage property, the chair of state, in Shakespeare's last history play, Henry VIII. Students of Shakespeare often express anxiety about how to read a play as a performance text rather than a non-dramatic literary text. This book aims to dispel that anxiety. It offers readers a way of making sense of plays by looking closely at what happens on stage and breaks down scenes into shorter units so that the building blocks of Shakespeare's historical dramaturgy become visible. By studying the unit of action, how it looks and how that look resembles or differs from the look of other units of action, readers will become familiar with a way of reading that may be applied to other plays, both Shakespearean and non-Shakespearean.
