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Author: David Bevington Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226044793 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 256
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This study examines how Shakespeare's plays have been transformed for the stage by the demands of theatrical spaces and staging conventions.
Author: David Bevington Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226044793 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 256
Book Description
This study examines how Shakespeare's plays have been transformed for the stage by the demands of theatrical spaces and staging conventions.
Author: Paul Edward Yachnin Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. ISBN: 9780754655855 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 232
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Using the tools of theatre history in their investigation into the phenomenology of the performance experience, the essays here also consider the social, ideological and institutional contingencies that determine the production and reception of the living spectacle. The contributors strive to bring better understanding to Shakespeare's imaginative investment in the relationship between theatrical production and the emotional, intellectual and cultural effects of performance broadly defined in social terms.
Author: Farah Karim Cooper Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1408157055 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 317
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How did Elizabethan and Jacobean acting companies create their visual and aural effects? What materials were available to them and how did they influence staging and writing? What impact did the sensations of theatre have on early modern audiences? How did the construction of the playhouses contribute to technological innovations in the theatre? What effect might these innovations have had on the writing of plays? Shakespeare's Theatres and The Effects of Performance is a landmark collection of essays by leading international scholars addressing these and other questions to create a unique and comprehensive overview of the practicalities and realities of the theatre in the early modern period.
Author: Sarah Werner Publisher: Psychology Press ISBN: 9780415227308 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 148
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In this controversial new book, Sarah Werner argues that the text of a Shakespeare play is only one of the many factors that give a performance its meaning.
Author: Barbara Hodgdon Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1405150238 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 704
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A Companion to Shakespeare and Performance provides astate-of-the-art engagement with the rapidly developing field ofShakespeare performance studies. Redraws the boundaries of Shakespeare performance studies. Considers performance in a range of media, including in print,in the classroom, in the theatre, in film, on television and video,in multimedia and digital forms. Introduces important terms and contemporary areas of enquiry inShakespeare and performance. Raises questions about the dynamic interplay betweenShakespearean writing and the practices of contemporary performanceand performance studies. Written by an international group of major scholars, teachers,and professional theatre makers.
Author: Anthony Dawson Publisher: Manchester University Press ISBN: 9780719046254 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 276
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In this illuminating study, Anthony Dawson surveys the stage history of Hamlet from its appearance in Shakespeare’s time to the efflorescence of new and challenging productions in our own. He vividly re-creates more than a dozen representative performances across three centuries. Bringing together theatre history and the interests of cultural criticism and performance theory, Dawson traces the Anglo-American acting tradition and provides a succinct account of the interpretative problems associated with texts, character, design, and the production of meaning. The final chapters extend the analysis to a number of film versions, notably those of Olivier, Kozintsev and Zeffirelli, as well as to several important European stage productions.
Author: Michael Dobson Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1139496816 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 281
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From the Hamlet acted on a galleon off Africa to the countless outdoor productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream that now defy each English summer, Shakespeare and Amateur Performance explores the unsung achievements of those outside the theatrical profession who have been determined to do Shakespeare themselves. Based on extensive research in previously unexplored archives, this generously illustrated and lively work of theatre history enriches our understanding of how and why Shakespeare's plays have mattered to generations of rude mechanicals and aristocratic dilettantes alike: from the days of the Theatres Royal to those of the Little Theatre Movement, from the pioneering Winter's Tale performed in eighteenth-century Salisbury to the Merchant of Venice performed by Allied prisoners for their Nazi captors, and from the how-to book which transforms Mercutio into Yankee Doodle to the Napoleonic counterspy who used Richard III as a tool of surveillance.
Author: Pascale Aebischer Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108952186 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 164
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This Element offers a first-person phenomenological history of watching productions of Shakespeare during the pandemic year of 2020. The first section of the Element explores how Shakespeare 'went viral' during the first lockdown of 2020 and considers how the archival recordings of Shakespeare productions made freely available by theatres across Europe and North America impacted on modes of spectatorship and viewing practices, with a particular focus on the effect of binge-watching Hamlet in lockdown. The Element's second section documents two made-for-digital productions of Shakespeare by Oxford-based Creation Theatre and Northern Irish Big Telly, two companies who became leaders in digital theatre during the pandemic. It investigates how their productions of The Tempest and Macbeth modelled new platform-specific ways of engaging with audiences and creating communities of viewing at a time when, in the UK, government policies were excluding most non-building-based theatre companies and freelancers from pandemic relief packages.
Author: Bill Barclay Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107139333 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 303
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This volume traces the uses of music in Shakespearean performance from the first Globe and Blackfriars to contemporary, global productions.
Author: David Bevington
Author: David Bevington
Author: Paul Edward Yachnin
Author: Farah Karim Cooper
Author: Sarah Werner
Author: Barbara Hodgdon
Author: John Russell Brown
Author: Anthony Dawson
Author: Michael Dobson
Author: Pascale Aebischer
Author: Bill Barclay