Sam Wanamaker

Author : Diana Devlin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786826275
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sam Wanamaker written by Diana Devlin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Actor. Director. Visionary. The fascinating life of Sam Wanamaker is explored for the first time in this biography by Diana Devlin, who worked closely with Wanamaker during the last twenty years of his life. Sam Wanamaker (1909 - 1993) is best known as the man who spent the last twenty-five years of his life campaigning to reconstruct Shakespeare's Globe near its original site in London. Born in the USA, he trained as an actor in Chicago and began his career during the golden age of radio drama, before moving on to Broadway. A vocal left wing activist, Wanamaker moved to the UK during the turbulent era of the anti-Communist witch hunts. Having crossed the Atlantic, he carved a successful international career as actor, producer and director. He directed the opening production at the Sydney Opera House. With his staunch sense of purpose, he made as many enemies as friends: charismatic and persuasive, he was also stubborn and domineering. But above all, he was a man of great vision, and it was that vision that inspired many to help make his dream of Shakespeare's Globe come into being, which opened to much fanfare in 1997

Author : Diana Devlin
Publisher : Oberon Books
ISBN 13 : 9781786827098
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sam Wanamaker written by Diana Devlin and published by Oberon Books. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Actor. Director. Visionary. The fascinating life of Sam Wanamaker is explored for the first time in this biography by Diana Devlin, who worked closely with Wanamaker during the last twenty years of his life. Sam Wanamaker (1909 - 1993) is best known as the man who spent the last twenty-five years of his life campaigning to reconstruct Shakespeare's Globe near its original site in London. Born in the USA, he trained as an actor in Chicago and began his career during the golden age of radio drama, before moving on to Broadway. A vocal left wing activist, Wanamaker moved to the UK during the turbulent era of the anti-Communist witch hunts. Having crossed the Atlantic, he carved a successful international career as actor, producer and director. He directed the opening production at the Sydney Opera House. With his staunch sense of purpose, he made as many enemies as friends: charismatic and persuasive, he was also stubborn and domineering. But above all, he was a man of great vision, and it was that vision that inspired many to help make his dream of Shakespeare's Globe come into being, which opened to much fanfare in 1997

Author : Tom Bishop
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000985407
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shakespearean International Yearbook written by Tom Bishop and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This year publishing its twentieth volume, The Shakespearean International Yearbook surveys the present state of Shakespeare studies, addressing issues that are fundamental to our interpretive encounter with Shakespeare’s work and his time, across the whole spectrum of his literary output. Contributions are solicited from scholars across the field, from both hemispheres of the globe. New trends are evaluated from the point of view of established scholarship, and emerging work in the field is encouraged. Each issue includes a special section under the guidance of a specialist Guest Editor, along with coverage of the current state of the field in other aspects. An essential reference tool for scholars of early modern literature and culture, this annual publication captures, from year to year, current and developing thought in Shakespeare scholarship and theater practice worldwide. There is a particular emphasis on Shakespeare studies in global contexts.

Author : Pascale Aebischer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108420486
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare, Spectatorship and the Technologies of Performance written by Pascale Aebischer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining how technological developments in performance practices affect spectator experience of Shakespeare and early modern drama.

Author : Cary M. Mazer
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472539494
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poel, Granville Barker, Guthrie, Wanamaker written by Cary M. Mazer and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All four figures in this volume have been canonized as central to 'stage-centred' Shakespearean scholarship and stage practice. From William Poel's reproductions of early modern stages in the late nineteenth century to Sam Wanamaker's reconstruction of the Globe on London's South Bank, they all viewed Shakespeare's plays as being enmeshed in the social and historical dynamics of theatremaking and theatregoing. The volume considers how their attempts to recapture early modern performance conditions can be considered progressive.

Author : J. R. Mulryne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521599887
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Globe Rebuilt written by J. R. Mulryne and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-06-12 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rebuilding of the Globe theatre (1599-1613) on London's Bankside, a few yards from the site of the playhouse in which many of Shakespeare's plays were first performed, must rank as one of the most imaginative enterprises of recent decades. It has aroused intense interest among scholars and the general public worldwide. This book offers a fully illustrated account of the research that has gone into the Globe reconstruction, drawing on the work of leading scholars, theatre people and craftsmen to provide an authoritative view of the twenty years of research and the hundreds of practical decisions entailed. Documents of the period are explored afresh; the techniques of timber-framed building and the decorative practices of Elizabethan craftsmen explained; and all of this reconciled with the requirements of the actors and restrictions of modern architectural design. The result is a book that will fascinate scholarly readers and laymen alike.

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Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1946-12-02 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

Author : Graham Holderness
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719014888
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shakespeare Myth written by Graham Holderness and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sarah Dustagheer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107190169
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Two Playhouses written by Sarah Dustagheer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-03 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah Dustagheer offers the first in-depth, comparative analysis of the performance conditions of the Globe and the Blackfriars Theatres.

Author : Asuka Kimura
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501513893
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performing Widowhood on the Early Modern English Stage written by Asuka Kimura and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-01-30 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The deaths of husbands radically changed women’s lives in the early modern period. While losing male protection, widows acquired rare opportunities for social and economic independence. Placed between death and life, female submissiveness and male audacity, chastity and sexual awareness, or tragedy and comedy, widows were highly problematic in early modern patriarchal society. They were also popular figures in the theatre, arousing both male desire and anxiety. Now how did Shakespeare and his contemporaries represent them on the stage? What kind of costume, props, and gestures were employed? What influence did actors, spectators, and play-space have? This book offers a fresh and incisive examination of the theatrical representation of widows by discussing the material conditions of the early modern stage. It is also the only comprehensive study of this topic covering all three phases of Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline drama.