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Author : Sally Barnden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 34,53 MB
Release : 2019-12-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1108487939
Examines both theatrical and staged art photographs, demonstrating their role in fixing and unfixing Shakespearean authority.
Author : Sally Barnden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 30,29 MB
Release : 2019-12-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 110886466X
Still Shakespeare and the Photography of Performance examines the place of photography in the reception of the Shakespeare canon since the invention of the camera, looking at how photographic images have shaped perceptions of historicity, performance, and Shakespearean character, and how their dissemination has affected Shakespearean authority. Barnden reveals how photography has conditioned the reception of Shakespeare's works in two key ways. Firstly, as a form of performance documentation, photographs shape the way individual performances are remembered and their positioning in relation to traditional and iconoclastic interpretations of the text. Secondly, photographs are vehicles of Shakespearean iconography, encouraging certain compositions and interpretations. Exploring both theatrical and staged art photographs, Still Shakespeare demonstrates the role of photography as a contributor to the calcification of Shakespearean quotation, advertising, and iconography, and to the attrition of the relationship between image and text whereby images become attached to narratives far beyond their original context.
Author : Rosemeire Todão
Publisher :
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 13,59 MB
Release : 2010
Category :
ISBN :
Since its advent, photography has been used as a process of registry of images, either for souvenirs or as a physical proof that something existed in the past. The use of photographs as historical documents serves several areas, for the static and immutable physical characteristics of photos allow the images to be used as sources for analysis and study. It is in this context that photographs of a production of A Comédia dos Erros allow a detailed study of their contents and possible meanings. It is through the photographs of a scene that the analyst is able to detect particularities of a moment of the performance that no longer exists and, this way, reconstruct its moment within the spectacle. With the help of iconographic indications allied with the playtext, it is possible to obtain further details of a scene, even identifying the exact moment of the performance the image refers to. Considering that every photograph is a trace from the past, it is the viewer's role to read and understand the photographic image based on his or her socio-cultural background which will enable the reconstruction of meanings for the implicit fragments within the image.
Author : Walter Rogers Furness
Publisher :
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 30,90 MB
Release : 1885
Category : Photography
ISBN :
Author : Fredric Woodbridge Wilson
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 20,89 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Education
ISBN : 1567923607
This title features a wonderfully evocative collection of portraits of some of the greatest stars of 20th century British theatre. The photography of Angus McBean encompasses more than three decades of the history of British theatre. His work includes some of the most memorable theatre productions of the Old Vic Company and what is now the Royal Shakespeare Company; opera productions at Glyndebourne and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; ballet from Sadler's Wells; and West End productions of plays and musicals. He was a favourite photographer of Vivien Leigh, Lourence Olivier, and Edith Evans. He photographed countless plays starring the likes of John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, and Alec Guinness, not to mention young stars such as Audrey Hepburn, Richard Burton, and Elizabeth Taylor. This sumptuously illustrated volume features 120 evocative images - reproduced from McBean's original negatives - of some the greatest stars of Twentieth-century British theatre.
Author : Dennis Kennedy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 18,51 MB
Release : 2001-12-20
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521785488
Most studies of the performance of Shakespeare's work concentrate on how the text has been played and what meanings have been conveyed through acting and interpretive directing. Dennis Kennedy demonstrates that much of audience response is determined by the visual representation, which is normally more immediate and direct than the aural conveyance of a text. Ranging widely over productions in Britain, Europe, Japan and North America, Kennedy gives a thorough account of the main scenographic movements of the century, investigating how the visual relates to Shakespeare on the stage. The second edition of this acclaimed history includes a new chapter on Shakespeare performance in the 1990s, bringing the story up to date by drawing on examples from a wide international field. There are more than twenty new illustrations, some of them in colour (bringing the total number of illustrations to almost 200), and previous references have been updated.
Author : Juliet Gilkes Romero
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 31,52 MB
Release : 2020-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1786828669
Winner of the 2020 Alfred Fagon Award. As the 19th Century dawns in London, politicians of all parties gather to abolish the slave trade once and for all. But the price of freedom turns out to be a multi-billion pound bailout for slave owners rather than those enslaved. As morality and cunning compete amongst men thirsty for power, two women navigate their way to the true seat of political influence, challenging members of parliament who dare deny them their say. In this provocative new play by Juliet Gilkes Romero, the personal collides with the political to ask, what is the right thing to do and how much must it cost?
Author : Catherine M. Osborn
Publisher :
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 29,87 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Stage photography
ISBN :
Author : Alan Bennett
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 31,66 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780573640025
A collection of comic sketches.
Author : Richard David
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 34,78 MB
Release : 1981-08-31
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521284905
Complemented by photographs of individual productions, Mr David's book comprises studies of major English productions of Shakespeare during the 1970s, often detailing how radically some performances have altered in the course of a run. His first concern has been to record, as accurately and comprehensively as possible, those moments in actual performance that have seemed most strikingly to recreate or impair the dramatic effects intended by Shakespeare. Mr David also draws wider conclusions about Shakespeare's art and the art of the theatre in general. He attempts to answer such questions as: what are the main trends and priorities in contemporary Shakespearean production? What conditions are imposed on plays by the nature of theatre and the art of acting? How is performance moulded by dramatic form? What special problems affect the 'translation', for modern spectators, of a classical play written in accordance with forgotten conventions? This book fuses academic and practical approaches to drama.