Author: Albert Lyell WalkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Stage-directions Within the Lines of Shakespeare's Plays
Author: Albert Lyell WalkerThe 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 in the Lines of Shakespeare's Tragedies
Author: Beulah KoenEquivocation
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.
Stage Directions in Hamlet
Author: Hardin L. AasandPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838639467
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The subject of stage directions in 'Hamlet', those brief semiotic codes that are embellished by historical, theatrical, and cultural considerations, produces a rigorous examination in the fifteen essays contained in this collection. This volume encompasses essays that are guardedly inductive in their critical approaches, as well as those that critique modern productions that attempt to achieve Shakespearean effect through a modern aesthetic. The volume also includes essays that enunciate the production of stage business as a cultural interplay between productions and social agencies outside the theater.
A Dictionary of Stage Directions in English Drama 1580-1642
Author: Alan C. DessenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521000291
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
This dictionary, the first of its kind, defines and explains over 900 terms found in the stage directions of plays for the professional stage written by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The authors draw on a database of over 22,000 stage directions drawn from around 500 plays. Each entry defines a term, gives examples of how it is used, cites additional instances, and gives cross-references to other relevant entries. This will be an indispensable work of reference for scholars, historians, directors and actors.
Stage-directions in the Spoken-text of Shakespeare's Plays
Author: James Plaisted WebberStage Representation of Shakespeare's Plays
Author: Making 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.
Understanding Shakespeare's Plays in Performance
Author: Jay L. HalioPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719026997
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Every year, hundreds of thousands of people buy tickets to see Shakespeare's plays performed. No other playwright commands the kind of interest that Shakespeare does.