Shakespeare's Theatre: A Dictionary of His Stage ContextShakespeare's Theatre consolidates the author's forty years of experience in studying and staging Shakespeare's plays. Under an alphabetical list of relevant terms, names and concepts, the book reviews current knowledge of the character and operation of theatres in Shakespeare's time, with an explanation of their origins. Coverage includes the practices of Elizabethan actors and script writers: methods of characterization; gesture, blocking and choreography, including music, dance and fighting; actors' rhetorical interaction with audiences; and use of costumes, stage props, and make-up. The author makes use of scripts and scholarship about original stagings of Shakespeare and suggests how those productions related to modern staging. Much of this material has developed as a result of the recent increased interest in the significance of performance for interpreting Shakespeare, including the recovery of the archaeological evidence about the original Rose and Globe Theaters. The book contains current bibliographies for each topic and consolidates these in an overall bibliography for Shakespeare and his theaters. |
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... texts suggesting such abridgements have survived for Richard III , Henry IV , Part 2 , Hamlet , Othello and Lear , while most scholars feel the sole text of Macbeth is such a shortened ver- sion , perhaps for performance at the court of ...
... texts suggesting such abridgements have survived for Richard III , Henry IV , Part 2 , Hamlet , Othello and Lear , while most scholars feel the sole text of Macbeth is such a shortened ver- sion , perhaps for performance at the court of ...
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... texts by Mark Twain , Sigmund Freud , Delia Bacon , etc. For a recent overview , see also Chapter 2 , ' Was Shakespeare Really Shakespeare ? ' , in Ian Wilson , Shakespeare : The Evidence ( pp . 12-26 ) . The basic facts relevant to ...
... texts by Mark Twain , Sigmund Freud , Delia Bacon , etc. For a recent overview , see also Chapter 2 , ' Was Shakespeare Really Shakespeare ? ' , in Ian Wilson , Shakespeare : The Evidence ( pp . 12-26 ) . The basic facts relevant to ...
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... texts of such works reflect a consensus transcending scholarly anxieties , and suggest that modern actors and directors accept all the available Shakespeare texts as equally plausible bases for designing their own interpretations . The ...
... texts of such works reflect a consensus transcending scholarly anxieties , and suggest that modern actors and directors accept all the available Shakespeare texts as equally plausible bases for designing their own interpretations . The ...
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References to this book
Shakespeare and Cognition: Aristotle's Legacy and Shakespearean Drama Arthur F. Kinney Limited preview - 2006 |