[PDF] Staging In Shakespeares Theatres eBook

Author : Andrew Gurr
Publisher : Oxford Shakespeare Topics
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 27,44 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780198711582

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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 :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,63 MB
Release : 2023
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ISBN : 9781383031676

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Staging in Shakespeare's Theatres is about the plays as they were first staged. It explains how the layout of the theatres affected how the plays were written and performed, and describes the working conditions of both playwrights and players.

Author : C. Walter Hodges
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 14,35 MB
Release : 2004-12-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521311700

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Lavishly illustrated, Enter the Whole Army reconstructs the original staging of scenes from Shakespeare.

Author : Andrew Gurr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 14,90 MB
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1316284166

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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 : Farah Karim Cooper
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 11,7 MB
Release : 2015-01-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1408157055

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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
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 22,61 MB
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1623160332

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(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 : Hugh Macrae Richmond
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 40,56 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826477767

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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 : Mariko Ichikawa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 21,1 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107020352

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The Shakespearean Stage Space explores the original staging of plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries in Renaissance playhouses.

Author : Andrew Gurr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 47,85 MB
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107040639

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This book examines the conditions of the original performances in seventeenth-century indoor theatres.