Staging In Shakespeares Theatres

Author : Andrew Gurr
Publisher : Oxford Shakespeare Topics
ISBN 13 : 9780198711582
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Staging in Shakespeare's Theatres written by Andrew Gurr and published by Oxford Shakespeare Topics. This book was released on 2000 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By bringing together evidence from different sources--documentary, archaeological, and the play-texts themselves--Staging Shakespeare's Theatres reconstructs the ways in which the plays were originally staged in the theaters of Shakespeare's own time, and shows how the physical possibilities and limitations of these theaters affected both the writing and the performances. The book explains the conditions under which the early playwrights and players worked, their preparation of the plays for the stage, and their rehearsal practices. It looks at the quality of evidence supplied by the surviving play-texts, and the extant to which audiences of the time differed from modern audiences; and it gives vivid examples of how Elizabethan actors made use of gestures, costumes, props, and the theater's specific design features. Stage movement is analyzed through a careful study of how exits and entrances worked on such stages. The final chapter offers a thorough examination of Hamlet as a text for performance, excitingly returning the play to its original staging at the Globe.

Author : Andrew Gurr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316284166
Total Pages : 417 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 417 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 : C. Walter Hodges
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521311700
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enter the Whole Army written by C. Walter Hodges and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-12-02 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lavishly illustrated, Enter the Whole Army reconstructs the original staging of scenes from Shakespeare.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Staging in Shakespeare's Theatres written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hugh Macrae Richmond
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826477767
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Theatre written by Hugh Macrae Richmond and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under an alphabetical list of relevant terms, names and concepts, the book reviews current knowledge of the character and operation of theatres in Shakespeare's time, with an explanation of their origins>

Author : Farah Karim Cooper
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408157055
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Theatres and the Effects of Performance written by Farah Karim Cooper and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-05 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did Elizabethan and Jacobean acting companies create their visual and aural effects? What materials were available to them and how did they influence staging and writing? What impact did the sensations of theatre have on early modern audiences? How did the construction of the playhouses contribute to technological innovations in the theatre? What effect might these innovations have had on the writing of plays? Shakespeare's Theatres and The Effects of Performance is a landmark collection of essays by leading international scholars addressing these and other questions to create a unique and comprehensive overview of the practicalities and realities of the theatre in the early modern period.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1623160332
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare on Theatre written by William Shakespeare and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Book). Shakespeare was a man of the theatre to his core, so it is no surprise that he repeatedly contemplated the nuts and bolts of his craft in his plays and poems. Shakespeare scholar Nick de Somogyi here draws together all the cherishable set pieces including "All the world's a stage," Hamlet's encounters with the Players, and Bottom's amateur theatricals along with many other oblique but no less revealing glances, and further insights into theatre practice by Shakespeare's contemporaries and rivals. De Somogyi's commentary takes us through the entire process of Shakespeare's theatrical production, from its casting and auditions, via rehearsals, costumes, and props, to its premiere and audience reception. Shakespeare on Theatre eavesdrops on the urgently whispered noises-off in the "tiring-house" and inhales the heady aroma of the Globe's first audiences.

Author : Andrew Gurr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521422406
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/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 1992-01-23 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only authoritative, one-volume book to describe all the main features of the original staging of Shakespearean drama.

Author : Mariko Ichikawa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107020352
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shakespearean Stage Space written by Mariko Ichikawa and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shakespearean Stage Space explores the original staging of plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries in Renaissance playhouses.

Author : W. B. Worthen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107055954
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare Performance Studies written by W. B. Worthen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at Shakespeare through performance, capturing the dialogue between performance, Shakespeare, and contemporary concerns in the humanities.