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.
Shakespearean Stage Production
Shakespearean Stage Production - 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 Shakespearean Stage Production write by Cécile de Banke. This book was released on 2014-08-13. Shakespearean Stage Production available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Contagion and the Shakespearean Stage
Contagion and the Shakespearean Stage - 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 Contagion and the Shakespearean Stage write by Darryl Chalk. This book was released on 2019-06-17. Contagion and the Shakespearean Stage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of essays considers what constituted contagion in the minds of early moderns in the absence of modern germ theory. In a wide range of essays focused on early modern drama and the culture of theater, contributors explore how ideas of contagion not only inform representations of the senses (such as smell and touch) and emotions (such as disgust, pity, and shame) but also shape how people understood belief, narrative, and political agency. Epidemic thinking was not limited to medical inquiry or the narrow study of a particular disease. Shakespeare, Thomas Middleton, Ben Jonson, Thomas Dekker and other early modern writers understood that someone might be infected or transformed by the presence of others, through various kinds of exchange, or if exposed to certain ideas, practices, or environmental conditions. The discourse and concept of contagion provides a lens for understanding early modern theatrical performance, dramatic plots, and theater-going itself.
The Shakespearean Stage Space
The Shakespearean Stage Space - 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 Space write by Mariko Ichikawa. This book was released on 2013. The Shakespearean Stage Space available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Shakespearean Stage Space explores the original staging of plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries in Renaissance playhouses.
The Hand on the Shakespearean Stage
The Hand on the Shakespearean Stage - 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 Hand on the Shakespearean Stage write by Farah Karim Cooper. This book was released on 2016-04-21. The Hand on the Shakespearean Stage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This ground-breaking new book uncovers the way Shakespeare draws upon the available literature and visual representations of the hand to inform his drama. Providing an analysis of gesture, touch, skill and dismemberment in a range of Shakespeare's works, it shows how the hand was perceived in Shakespeare's time as an indicator of human agency, emotion, social and personal identity. It demonstrates how the hand and its activities are described and embedded in Shakespeare's texts and about its role on the Shakespearean stage: as part of the actor's body, in the language as metaphor, and as a morbid stage-prop. Understanding the cultural signifiers that lie behind the early modern understanding of the hand and gesture, opens up new and sometimes disturbing ways of reading and seeing Shakespeare's plays.
