The Shakespeare Company, 1594-1642 - 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 Shakespeare Company, 1594-1642 write by Andrew Gurr. This book was released on 2004-04-15. The Shakespeare Company, 1594-1642 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first complete history of the theater company in which Shakespeare acted and which staged all his plays. Created in 1594, the company became the King's Men in 1603 and ran for forty-eight years up to the closure of 1642. Andrew Gurr provides a study of the company's activities, explores its social role in its time and examines its repertoire of plays. This comprehensive illustrated history will be an indispensable guide for anyone who wants to know more about the conditions under which Shakespeare and his successors worked.
Shakespeare's Opposites
Shakespeare's Opposites - 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's Opposites write by Andrew Gurr. This book was released on 2012-03-22. Shakespeare's Opposites available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Admiral's Men is the acting company that staged Christopher Marlowe's plays while its companion company was giving the first performances of Shakespeare. Unlike the Shakespeare company, there is plenty of evidence available telling us what the Admiral's company did and how it staged its plays. Not only do we know far more about the design of its two playhouses, the Rose and the Fortune, than we know of any other playhouse from the time, including the Globe, but we have Henslowe's Diary. This recorded everything the Admiral's company performed from 1594 to 1600 and after, what the company bought to stage its plays, who performed which parts, who wrote which plays and even how much they were paid. The first history to be written of the Admiral's Men, this book tells us not only a great deal about the company's own work, but also how the Shakespeare company operated.
Shakespeare's Workplace
Shakespeare's Workplace - 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's Workplace write by Andrew Gurr. This book was released on 2017-10-19. Shakespeare's Workplace available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Shakespeare was easily the most inventive writer using the English language. His plays give us intricacies of vocabulary and usage that have enriched us immeasurably. This book provides a series of analytical essays on the marginalia relating to the plays. Each of them is a searching and authoritative account, packed with details, of some of the more peculiar conditions under which Shakespeare and his peers composed their playbooks. Among the essays are two completely new contributions. Altogether they reveal fresh details about the input of the playing companies, playhouses, individual players and even their controller, the Revels Office, to the complex fragments that we now have of the Shakespearean world. Gurr examines Shakespeare's own choice between playwriting and poetry, the requirements of working in a playhouse that wraps itself around the stage, and its impact on the creation of such figures as Henry V, Shylock, Isabella, King Lear and Coriolanus.
Playgoing in Shakespeare's London
Playgoing in Shakespeare's London - 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 Playgoing in Shakespeare's London write by Andrew Gurr. This book was released on 2004. Playgoing in Shakespeare's London available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a newly revised edition of Andrew Gurr's classic account of the people for whom Shakespeare wrote his plays. Gurr assembles evidence from the writings of the time to describe the physical, social and mental conditions of playgoing. For this edition, as well as revising and adding new material which has emerged since the second edition, Gurr develops new sections about points of special interest. Fifty new entries have been added to the list of playgoers and there are a dozen fresh quotations about the experience of playgoing.
Moving Shakespeare Indoors
Moving Shakespeare Indoors - 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 Moving Shakespeare Indoors write by Andrew Gurr. This book was released on 2014-03-06. Moving Shakespeare Indoors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the conditions of the original performances in seventeenth-century indoor theatres.
