Staging Restoration Comedy

Author : Tim Keenan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317064690
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Restoration Staging, 1660–74 written by Tim Keenan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Restoration Staging 1660–74 cuts through prevalent ideas of Restoration theatre and drama to read early plays in their original theatrical contexts. Tim Keenan argues that Restoration play texts contain far more information about their own performance than previously imagined. Focusing on specific productions and physical staging at the three theatres operating in the first years of the Restoration – Vere Street, Bridges Street and Lincoln’s Inn Fields – Keenan analyses stage directions, scene headings and other performance clues embedded in the play-texts themselves. These close readings shed new light on staging practices of the period, building a radical new model of early Restoration staging. Restoration Staging, 1660–74 takes account of all extant new plays written for or premiered at three of London’s early theatres, presenting a much-needed reassessment of early Restoration drama.

Author : David Roberts
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031522095
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Staging Restoration Comedy written by David Roberts and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tim Keenan (Dr.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781315605883
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Restoration Staging, 1660-74 written by Tim Keenan (Dr.) and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Restoration Staging 1660-74cuts through prevalent ideas of Restoration theatre and drama to read early plays in their original theatrical contexts. Tim Keenan argues that Restoration play texts contain far more information about their own performance than previously imagined. Focusing on specific productions and physical staging at the three theatres operating in the first years of the Restoration - Vere Street, Bridges Street and Lincoln's Inn Fields - Keenan analyses stage directions, scene headings and other performance clues embedded in the play-texts themselves. These close readings shed new light on staging practices of the period, building a radical new model of early Restoration staging. Restoration Staging, 1660-74takes account of all extant new plays written for or premiered at three of London's early theatres, presenting a much-needed reassessment of early Restoration drama.

Author : J. L. Styan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521274210
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Restoration Comedy in Performance written by J. L. Styan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986-08-29 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the ways in which Restoration comedy was performed, using the costume, customs, manners and behaviour of the age as a way of understanding its theatre and drama. It also considers problems encountered in early twentieth century revivals of plays by authors such as Etherege, Dryden, Congreve and Farquhar.

Author : David Roberts
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9783031522086
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Staging Restoration Comedy written by David Roberts and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2024-03-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its 1967 production of Vanbrugh’s The Relapse, the Royal Shakespeare Company has been the world’s leading producer of Restoration Comedies. This book is the first to document and critique the company’s history of engagement with that repertoire. It reviews the spaces in which productions have been performed, design principles, casting, voicing, textual adaptation, musical direction, actor perspectives, and the problems of how to confront, adopt or depart from received notions of Restoration style. It goes on to posit that, for all the RSC’s explorations of Restoration Comedy, the company has maintained the repertoire as a fringe interest played out in niche spaces, while recycling many of the assumptions it claims to challenge, and that what is needed is the writer-led intervention seen in RSC and National Theatre adaptations of French drama from the same period. Only then can Restoration Comedy begin to engage wider audiences in new sites of political, historical and cultural meaning.

Author : Peter Holland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521220483
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ornament of Action written by Peter Holland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1979-04-26 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Holland brings together the disciplines of theatre history and literary criticism in a close study of the staging of plays in the Restoration.

Author : Nancy Copeland
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351898248
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Staging Gender in Behn and Centlivre written by Nancy Copeland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-26 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Staging Gender in Behn and Centlivre studies the representation of gender in four of the most important plays by the leading professional women playwrights of the late Stuart period. Behn's The Rover (1677) and The Luckey Chance (1686) and Centlivre's The Busie Body (1709) and The Wonder: A Woman Keeps a Secret (1714) are first placed in their original theatrical and cultural contexts and then studied through subsequent productions and adaptations extending from the eighteenth century to the twentieth. The detailed analysis of these plays is framed by a discussion of the cultural position of the playwrights and the kind of comedy they wrote. The survival of these plays in the repertoire offers an unusual opportunity to examine the theatrical 'double life' of works by early women playwrights. The lengthy production histories of these comedies placed them in dialogue with radically different ideas of appropriate and permissible behavior for both women and men. The resulting productions, alterations, and adaptations included both feminist reinterpretations and recuperations of the plays' challenges to dominant meanings of gender. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of dramatic literature, theatre, and women's studies.

Author : Susan J. Owen
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719049675
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on Restoration Drama written by Susan J. Owen and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces students to drama from the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 to the early 18th Century. Susan Owen offers representative coverage of new forms of drama in this period, and of ways in which old forms are altered. Her study covers heroic drama, comedy, tragedy, tragi-comedy, and Shakespeare adaptations, by focusing on specific 'dramatic highlights' and giving close reading of particular plays.

Author : Deborah Payne Fisk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139825674
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre written by Deborah Payne Fisk and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-05-11 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This rich and varied portrait of the drama from 1660 to 1714 provides students with essential information about playwrights, staging and genres, situating them in the social and political culture of the time. No longer seen as a privileged arena for select dramatists and elite courtiers, the Restoration theatre is revealed in all of its tumult, energy and conflict. The fourteen newly-commissioned essays examine the theatre, paying attention to major playwrights such as Dryden, Wycherly and Congreve and also to more minor works and to plays by the first professional female dramatists. The book begins with chapters on the performance of the drama in its own time, on theatres, acting and staging, and continues with the main dramatic genres and themes, with a final chapter on the critical history of the drama. The volume also includes a thorough chronology and biographies and bibliographies of dramatists.

Author : George Etherege
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The comical revenge; or, Love in a tub [a comedy, by sir G. Etherege]. written by George Etherege and published by . This book was released on 1669 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: