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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... French allusions in performance of such plays as Marlowe's The Massacre at Paris , Shakespeare's Love's Labour's and Chapman's two Biron plays , among many other treatments of contemporary French history . In the case of Shakespeare , ...
... French allusions in performance of such plays as Marlowe's The Massacre at Paris , Shakespeare's Love's Labour's and Chapman's two Biron plays , among many other treatments of contemporary French history . In the case of Shakespeare , ...
Page 192
... French background . French women of the sixteenth century had emerged as leaders in every sense , from the time that Queen Marguerite de Navarre had run France during the captivity of her brother King Francis I. Among her protégées were ...
... French background . French women of the sixteenth century had emerged as leaders in every sense , from the time that Queen Marguerite de Navarre had run France during the captivity of her brother King Francis I. Among her protégées were ...
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... French women . His plays contain a galaxy of incisive French women : Joan la Pucelle , the Countess of Auvergne and Queen Margaret of Anjou in Henry VI ; the whole French court of the Princess of France in Love's Labour's , and ...
... French women . His plays contain a galaxy of incisive French women : Joan la Pucelle , the Countess of Auvergne and Queen Margaret of Anjou in Henry VI ; the whole French court of the Princess of France in Love's Labour's , and ...
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References to this book
Shakespeare and Cognition: Aristotle's Legacy and Shakespearean Drama Arthur F. Kinney Limited preview - 2006 |