Shakespeare On The University Stage

Author : Andrew James Hartley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107048559
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare on the University Stage written by Andrew James Hartley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection is the first study of student Shakespeare productions at universities and colleges across the world.

Author : Andrew Gurr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316284166
Total Pages : 559 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shakespearean Stage 1574–1642 written by Andrew Gurr and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Joel Berkowitz
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587294087
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage written by Joel Berkowitz and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The professional Yiddish theatre started in 1876 in Eastern Europe; with the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881, masses of Eastern European Jews began moving westward, and New York—Manhattan’s Bowery and Second Avenue—soon became the world’s center of Yiddish theatre. At first the Yiddish repertoire revolved around comedies, operettas, and melodramas, but by the early 1890s America's Yiddish actors were wild about Shakespeare. In Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage, Joel Berkowitz knowledgeably and intelligently constructs the history of this unique theatrical culture. The Jewish King Lear of 1892 was a sensation. The year 1893 saw the beginning of a bevy of Yiddish versions of Hamlet; that year also saw the first Yiddish production of Othello. Romeo and Juliet inspired a wide variety of treatments. The Merchant of Venice was the first Shakespeare play published in Yiddish, and Jacob Adler received rave reviews as Shylock on Broadway in both 1903 and 1905. Berkowitz focuses on these five plays in his five chapters. His introduction provides an orientation to the Yiddish theatre district in New York as well as the larger picture of Shakespearean production and the American theatre scene, and his conclusion summarizes the significance of Shakespeare’s plays in Yiddish culture.

Author : Stanley Wells
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139826484
Total Pages : 559 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Stage written by Stanley Wells and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-30 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2002 Companion is designed for readers interested in past and present productions of Shakespeare's plays, both in and beyond Britain. The first six chapters describe aspects of the British performing tradition in chronological sequence, from the early staging of Shakespeare's own time, through to the present day. Each relates Shakespearean developments to broader cultural concerns and adopts an individual approach and focus, on textual adaptation, acting, stages, scenery or theatre management. These are followed by three explorations of acting: tragic and comic actors and women performers of Shakespeare roles. A section on international performance includes chapters on interculturalism, on touring companies and on political theatre, with separate accounts of the performing traditions of North America, Asia and Africa. Over forty pictures illustrate peformers and productions of Shakespeare from around the world. An amalgamated list of items for further reading completes the book.

Author : Peter Lake
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300222718
Total Pages : 683 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage written by Peter Lake and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 683 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The politics of virtue -- Honour and its enemies: women on top - again -- Anti-popery -- Divided we fall: the politics of faction in time of war -- CHAPTER 6 Richard III: political ends, providential means -- The making of a Machiavel -- Monstrous bodies and providential signs -- Signs and prophecies -- The audience as 'high all- seer' -- Ambiguities of 'evil counsel' -- From providence to predestination: the return of legitimacy -- Richard III as a guide to the past, present and future -- CHAPTER 7 Going Roman: Richard III and Titus Andronicus compared

Author : Andrew James Hartley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781316202265
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare on the University Stage written by Andrew James Hartley and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Featuring essays from seventeen international scholars, this exciting new collection is the first sustained study of Shakespeare on the university and college stage. Treating the subject both historically and globally, the essays describe theatrical conditions which fit neither the professional nor the amateur models and show how student performances provide valuable vehicles for artistic construction and intellectual analysis. The book redresses the neglect of this distinctive form of Shakespeare performance, opening up new ways of thinking about the nature and value of university production and its ability to draw unique audiences. Looking at productions across the world - from Asia to Europe and North America - it will interest scholars as well as upper-level students in areas such as Shakespeare studies, performance studies and theatre history"--

Author : David Bevington
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226044793
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Wide and Universal Theater written by David Bevington and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines how Shakespeare's plays have been transformed for the stage by the demands of theatrical spaces and staging conventions.

Author : W. B. Worthen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108498132
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theatre, Technicity, Shakespeare written by W. B. Worthen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-23 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Worthen uses contemporary Shakespeare performance to explore the technicity of theatre: its changing work as an intermedial technology.

Author : Darryl Chalk
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030144283
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contagion and the Shakespearean Stage written by Darryl Chalk and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Angela McAllister
Publisher : Frances Lincoln Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 1786031140
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Stage Full of Shakespeare Stories written by Angela McAllister and published by Frances Lincoln Children's Books. This book was released on 2018-08-29 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step on to a stage full of stories with this beautiful anthology of 12 stories from Shakespeare. Featuring much-loved classics such as The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and Othello, each story is rewritten in a comprehensive way that is accessible for children and stunningly illustrated by collage artist Alice Lindstrom. This lavish follow-up to A Year Full of Stories and A World Full of Animal Stories is the perfect gift for book lovers young and old.