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Acting Versions of "Strafford", "A Blot on the Scutcheon" and "Colombes Birtday"
Author: Acting Versions of Strafford
Author: James HoggRobert Browning and the Victorian Theatre
Author: James HoggRobert Browning and the Victorian theatre. 2. Acting versions of Strafford, A blot on the Scutcheon and Colombe's birthday
Author: James HoggThe Viola Allen Acting Version of the Winter's Tale: A Play in Four Acts
Author: William ShakespearePublisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9780469971844
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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The Variorum Edition of the Plays of W.B.Yeats
Author: W. B. YeatsPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349004413
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1359
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The Book of Will
Author: Lauren GundersonPublisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 0822237725
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 95
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Without William Shakespeare, we wouldn’t have literary masterpieces like Romeo and Juliet. But without Henry Condell and John Heminges, we would have lost half of Shakespeare’s plays forever! After the death of their friend and mentor, the two actors are determined to compile the First Folio and preserve the words that shaped their lives. They’ll just have to borrow, beg, and band together to get it done. Amidst the noise and color of Elizabethan London, THE BOOK OF WILL finds an unforgettable true story of love, loss, and laughter, and sheds new light on a man you may think you know.
Statistical History of Acting Editions of Shakespeare
Author: William Perdue HalsteadPublisher:
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Category : Promptbooks
Languages : en
Pages : 646
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The Young Man from Stratford
Author: Henry Saint-GeorgePublisher:
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Category : Stratford-upon-Avon (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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The Theatre of Death
Author: P J KlempPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1644530325
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
This book discusses some rituals of justice—such as public executions, printed responses to the Archbishop of Canterbury’s execution speech, and King Charles I’s treason trial—in early modern England. Focusing on the ways in which genres shape these events’ multiple voices, I analyze the rituals’ genres and the diverse perspectives from which we must understand them. The execution ritual, like such cultural forms as plays and films, is a collaborative production that can be understood only, and only incompletely, by being alert to the presence of its many participants and their contributions. Each of these participants brings a voice to the execution ritual, whether it is the judge and jury or the victim, executioner, sheriff and other authorities, spiritual counselors, printer, or spectators and readers. And each has at least one role to play. No matter how powerful some institutions and individuals may appear, none has a monopoly over authority and how the events take shape on and beyond the scaffold. The centerpiece of the mid-seventeenth-century’s theatre of death was the condemned man’s last dying utterance. This study focuses on the words and contexts of many of those final speeches, including King Charles I’s (1649), Archbishop William Laud’s (1645), and the Earl of Strafford’s (1641), as well as those of less well known royalists and regicides. Where we situate ourselves to view, hear, and comprehend a public execution—through specific participants’ eyes, ears, and minds or accounts—shapes our interpretation of the ritual. It is impossible to achieve a singular, carefully indoctrinated meaning of an event as complex as a state-sponsored public execution. Along with the variety of voices and meanings, the nature and purpose of the rituals of justice maintain a significant amount of consistency in a number of eras and cultural contexts. Whether the focus is on the trial and execution of the Marian martyrs, English royalists in the 1640s and 1650s, or the Restoration’s regicides, the events draw on a set of cultural expectations or conventions. Because rituals of justice are shaped by diverse voices and agendas, with the participants’ scripts and counterscripts converging and colliding, they are dramatic moments conveying profound meanings. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.