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.
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 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.
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.
The Shakespeare Company, 1594-1642
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.
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.
