Author: James Plaisted WebberPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Stage-directions in the Spoken-text of Shakespeare's Plays
The Stage Directions Guide to Shakespeare
Author: Stephen PeithmanPublisher: Heinemann Drama
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
The Stage Directions Guide to Shakespeare offers sane, sensible advice on reasons to do (or not to do) Shakespeare, assessing your theatre group abilities, selecting a play, casting, making costume and set decisions, the special demands of directing and playing Shakespeare and publicity.
Stage Directions and Shakespearean Theatre
Author: Gillian WoodsPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474257496
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
What do 'stage directions' do in early modern drama? Who or what are they directing: action on the stage, or imagination via the page? Is the label 'stage direction' helpful or misleading? Do these 'directions' provide evidence of Renaissance playhouse practice? What happens when we put them at the centre of literary close readings of early modern plays? Stage Directions and Shakespearean Theatre investigates these problems through innovative research by a range of international experts. This collection of essays examines the creative possibilities of stage directions and and their implications for actors and audiences, readers and editors, historians and contemporary critics. Looking at the different ways stage directions make meaning, this volume provides new insights into a range of Renaissance plays.
Stage-directions Within the Lines of Shakespeare's Plays
Author: Albert Lyell WalkerMaking Shakespeare
Author: Tiffany SternPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134363559
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
This volume offers a lively introduction to the major issues of the stage and print history of the plays, and discusses what a Shakespeare play actually is.
Discovering Shakespeare
Author: John Russell BrownPublisher: Palgrave
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Useful for a study of Shakespeare's theatre, particularly Chapter 4, Parts for actors.; Contemporary Shakespeare - Text - Speech - Stage action.
Equivocation
Author: Bill CainPublisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 0822225913
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
"England, 1605: A terrorist plot to assassinate King James I and blow Parliament to kingdom come with 36 barrels of devilish gunpowder! Shagspeare (after a contemporary spelling of the Bard's name) is commissioned by Robert Cecil, the prime minister, to write the "true historie" of the plot. And it must have witches! The King wants witches! But as Shag and the acting company of the Globe, under the direction of the great Richard Burbage, investigate the plot, they discover that the King's version of the story might, in fact, be a cover-up. Shag and his actors are confronted with the ultimate moral and artistic dilemma. Speak truth to power-and perhaps lose their heads? Or take the money and lie? Is there a third option-equivocation? A high-stakes political thriller with contemporary resonances, EQUIVOCATION gallops from the great Globe to the Tower of London to the halls of Parliament to the heart of Judith, Shag's younger daughter, who finds herself unexpectedly at the very heart of the political, dramatic and-ultimately-human mystery." - from publisher's website.
How to Read a Shakespearean Play Text
Author: Eugene GiddensPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521886406
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
An invaluable introductory guide for students on how to engage with the original printed texts of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
Shakespeare's Speaking Properties
Author: Frances N. TeaguePublisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838752081
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
This book is the first attempt to discuss systematically the properties in Shakespeare's plays, and analyzes the properties that Shakespeare specifies either explicitly in stage directions or implicitly in speeches. Property lists for all of Shakespeare's plays and frequency tables for various categories of property are included.
Staging in Shakespeare's Theatres
Author: Andrew GurrPublisher: Oxford Shakespeare Topics
ISBN: 9780198711582
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
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.