Author: Mary EdmondPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Rare Sir William Davenant
Author: Mary EdmondThe comedy of Sir William Davenant
Author: Howard S. CollinsPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111400360
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
A Companion to Restoration Drama
Author: Susan J. OwenPublisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 9781405176101
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
This Companion illustrates the vitality and diversity of dramatic work 1660 to 1710. Twenty-five essays by leading scholars in the field bring together the best recent insights into the full range of dramatic practice and innovation at the time. Introduces readers to the recent boom in scholarship that has revitalised Restoration drama Explores historical and cultural contexts, genres of Restoration drama, and key dramatists, among them Dryden and Behn
Sir William Davenant
Author: Alfred HarbagePublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512816655
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
First thorough biography of the colorful and gifted seventeenth-century playwright who was also the father of English opera, the first to use English actresses in his plays, and the creator of modern stage construction.
Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist
Author: Lukas ErnePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521822558
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
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Sir William Davenant
Author: Sophia B. BlaydesPublisher: Scholarly Title
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Sir William Davenant, the Court Masque, and the English Seventeenth-century Scenic Stage, C. 1605-c. 1700
Author: Dawn LewcockPublisher: Cambria Press
ISBN: 1604975784
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
This book examines why, when, how and where the scenic stage began in England. Little has been written about the development of theatrical scenery and how it was used in England in the seventeenth century, and what is known about the response to this innovation is fragmentary and uncertain. Unlike in Italy and France where scenery had been in use since the sixteenth century, the general public in England did not see plays presented against a painted location until Sir William Davenant presented The Siege of Rhodes at Lincoln's Inn Fields in 1661. Painted landscapes or seascapes, perspective views of cities or palaces, lighting effects, gods or goddesses flying down on to the stage in a chariot, all these had only been seen before on the masque stage at court or in the occasional private play performance. This study argues that Sir William Davenant (1606-1668) was involved almost from the beginning of the process and that his influence continued after his death; that, although painted scenery as such would undoubtedly have appeared on the public stage after 1660, it would not have been in the same way, for Davenant made particular positive contributions which brought about certain changes in both the presentation and reception of plays which would not have happened as they did without his work and influence. This is new work which uses dramaturgical and scenographical analysis of selected plays and masques, against known theatrical history, to discover how the staging of painted settings was organised from c1605 to c1700. This kind of investigation into the links between masque staging and the staging of plays has not been done in quite this way before. The study begins with Davenant's involvement with Inigo Jones and John Webb. It analyses the staging of the court masques and discusses what Davenant took from this and how he used the information. It suggests that the move towards verisimilitude in the drama on the scenic stage was due in part to Davenant's imaginative use of certain of the physical components of masque staging in presentations by the Duke's Company. It argues that he encouraged dramatists to integrate the scenery into their plots, particularly to provide for disclosures and discoveries, in ways not possible before. How, in so doing, he implicitly changed the stage conventions of time and place which audiences had accepted from the platform stage. It also argues that the parallel development of operatic spectacle derived mainly from the use by Killgrew and the King's Company of the techniques for engineering the spectacular effects of the transformation scenes of the masque stage to embellish the heroic drama by Dryden and others. It suggests that the two staging methods combined in the later seventeenth century to give more sophisticated ways of using the scenery and thus involved the scenic stage with the dialogue and the action in all genres, but that such experimentation ended when financial and commercial considerations made it no longer viable. Nevertheless it concludes that, by the eighteenth century, theatre practitioners had learnt to use the stage craft and mechanical techniques of the masque stage to integrate the visual with the aural aspects of a production, and that dramatists, once concerned solely with the aural expression of their theme, had become playwrights who allowed for the visual elements in their texts. Over fifty illustrations exemplify the discussion. This is an important book in the history of theatre, essential background for the staging of the court masque, and for the scenography of the Restoration theatre.
Lives of Eminent Novelists and Dramatists
Author: Walter ScottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Handbook of English Renaissance Literature
Author: Ingo BerensmeyerPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110436086
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1003
Book Description
This handbook of English Renaissance literature serves as a reference for both students and scholars, introducing recent debates and developments in early modern studies. Using new theoretical perspectives and methodological tools, the volume offers exemplary close readings of canonical and less well-known texts from all significant genres between c. 1480 and 1660. Its systematic chapters address questions about editing Renaissance texts, the role of translation, theatre and drama, life-writing, science, travel and migration, and women as writers, readers and patrons. The book will be of particular interest to those wishing to expand their knowledge of the early modern period beyond Shakespeare.
Shakespeare, Court Dramatist
Author: Richard DuttonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198777744
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Shakespeare made his money from writing for public theatres like the Globe, but the companies he served only survived because the royal courts had their own uses for drama, to fill the long winter nights of their Revels seasons. Shakepeare's plays were performed there more often than those by anyone else and he revised them--making them fuller, richer, and more sophisticated for his royal patrons. Shakespeare, Court Dramatist outlines the symbioticrelationship between Shakespeare and the court and shows how it affected his writing, forging plays like Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet in the versions we know best today.