Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
The Playgoer
Stages and Playgoers
Author: Janet HillPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773522732
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Stages and Playgoers demonstrates the long, vital tradition of dialogue between stage and audience from medieval, through Tudor, to Jacobean drama. Janet Hill offers new insights into techniques of addressing playgoers from the stage and how they might have operated under particular staging conditions. Hill calls this dialogue "open address," a term that takes in a range of speeches often called "asides," "monologues," and "soliloquies." She argues that open address is a strategy that challenges playgoers, asking for answers that lie outside the stage in the playgoer/playhouse world.
The Playgoers' Club, 1884 to 1905
Author: Benjamin William FindonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
The American Encyclopaedic Dictionary
Author: The Playgoers' Year-book, for 1888
Author: Charles Edgar Lewis WingatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Playwriting Playgoers in Shakespeare's Theater
Author: Matteo A. PangalloPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812294254
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Among the dramatists who wrote for the professional playhouses of early modern London was a small group of writers who were neither members of the commercial theater industry writing to make a living nor aristocratic amateurs dipping their toes in theatrical waters for social or political prestige. Instead, they were largely working- and middle-class amateurs who had learned most of what they knew about drama from being members of the audience. Using a range of familiar and lesser-known print and manuscript plays, as well as literary accounts and documentary evidence, Playwriting Playgoers in Shakespeare's Theater shows how these playgoers wrote and revised to address what they assumed to be the needs of actors, readers, and the Master of the Revels; how they understood playhouse materials and practices; and how they crafted poetry for theatrical effects. The book also situates them in the context of the period's concepts of, and attitudes toward, playgoers' participation in the activity of playmaking. Plays by playgoers such as the rogue East India Company clerk Walter Mountfort or the highwayman John Clavell invite us into the creative imaginations of spectators, revealing what certain audience members wanted to see and how they thought actors might stage it. By reading Shakespeare's theater through these playgoers' works, Matteo Pangallo contributes a new category of evidence to our understanding of the relationships between the early modern stage, its plays, and its audiences. More broadly, he shows how the rise of England's first commercialized culture industry also gave rise to the first generation of participatory consumers and their attempts to engage with mainstream culture by writing early modern "fan fiction."
The Other Side of the Lantern
Author: Frederick TrevesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: A Book of the Play
Author: Dutton CookPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
'A Book of the Play' by Dutton Cook is a fascinating collection of stories and details about the British theater world from the past and present. With a focus on the smaller, yet equally interesting, aspects of histrionic life, Cook's book provides insight into the playgoers, strolling players, costumes, makeup, and even real horses on stage. Spanning across 36 chapters, this book is a treasure trove of curious anecdotes and little-known facts, taking readers behind the scenes of the theater and into the lives of those who make it all happen.
Author: Robert Hunter