Author: Orie Latham HatcherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
A Book for Shakespeare Plays and Pageants
Author: Orie Latham HatcherPageantry in the Shakespearean Theater
Author: David M. BergeronPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820338435
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Pageantry in the Shakespearean Theater focuses on political, social, and aesthetic issues to reveal the enormous influence of civic celebration on Renaissance theater. Ranging across Shakespeare's canon and including the work of his fellow playwrights, this collection of twelve essays considers tournaments, royal entries, Lord Mayor's Shows, funeral processions progress entertainments, court masques, and more.
Among Our Books
Author: Carnegie Library of PittsburghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
Unfaded Pageant
Author: Lucy OakleyPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Chronicles the history of the artist's Shakespearean work, which influenced late Victorian stage productions, and examines his interpretations in the context of late Victorian attitudes towards the plays and the wider context of English art. Contains numerous bandw and color illustrations spanning the range of Abbey's Shakespearean art, including sketches, book and magazine illustrations, costume designs, and oil paintings and studies. Distributed by the U. of Washington Press. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Dial
Author: Pageants in Great Britain and the United States
Author: Caroline Hill DavisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pageants
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Dramatic Bibliography
Author: Publisher: 清华大学出版社有限公司
ISBN:
Category : Bibliographical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
A Second List of Plays and Pageants
Author: Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A. Bureau of Pageantry and the DramaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's History Plays
Author: Michael HattawayPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521775397
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Publisher Description (unedited publisher data) Shakespeare's history plays have been performed more in recent years than ever before, in Britain, North America, and in Europe. This volume provides an accessible, wide-ranging and informed introduction to Shakespeare's history and Roman plays. It is attentive throughout to the plays as they have been performed over the centuries since they were written. The first part offers accounts of the genre of the history play, of Renaissance historiography, of pageants and masques, and of women's roles, as well as comparisons with history plays in Spain and the Netherlands. Chapters in the second part look at individual plays as well as other Shakespearean texts which are closely related to the histories. The Companion offers a full bibliography, genealogical tables, and a list of principal and recurrent characters. It is a comprehensive guide for students, researchers and theatre-goers alike.
Shakespeare's Medieval Craft
Author: Kurt A. SchreyerPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 080145509X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
In Shakespeare's Medieval Craft, Kurt A. Schreyer explores the relationship between Shakespeare’s plays and a tradition of late medieval English biblical drama known as mystery plays. Scholars of English theater have long debated Shakespeare’s connection to the mystery play tradition, but Schreyer provides new perspective on the subject by focusing on the Chester Banns, a sixteenth-century proclamation announcing the annual performance of that city’s cycle of mystery plays. Through close study of the Banns, Schreyer demonstrates the central importance of medieval stage objects—as vital and direct agents and not merely as precursors—to the Shakespearean stage.As Schreyer shows, the Chester Banns serve as a paradigm for how Shakespeare’s theater might have reflected on and incorporated the mystery play tradition, yet distinguished itself from it. For instance, he demonstrates that certain material features of Shakespeare’s stage—including the ass’s head of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the theatrical space of Purgatory in Hamlet, and the knocking at the gate in the Porter scene of Macbeth—were in fact remnants of the earlier mysteries transformed to meet the exigencies of the commercial London playhouses. Schreyer argues that the ongoing agency of supposedly superseded theatrical objects and practices reveal how the mystery plays shaped dramatic production long after their demise. At the same time, these medieval traditions help to reposition Shakespeare as more than a writer of plays; he was a play-wright, a dramatic artisan who forged new theatrical works by fitting poetry to the material remnants of an older dramatic tradition.