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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... Lear , while most scholars feel the sole text of Macbeth is such a shortened ver- sion , perhaps for performance at the court of King James I , whose ancestors and descent from Banquo are favourably presented in the witches ' séance ...
... Lear , while most scholars feel the sole text of Macbeth is such a shortened ver- sion , perhaps for performance at the court of King James I , whose ancestors and descent from Banquo are favourably presented in the witches ' séance ...
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... Lear legend from pre - Roman Britain , nor from the sources of the Gloucester story in the episode about the King of Paphlagonia and his sons borrowed from Sidney's Arcadia . Edgar ( AD 943-75 ) is a highly significant name in English ...
... Lear legend from pre - Roman Britain , nor from the sources of the Gloucester story in the episode about the King of Paphlagonia and his sons borrowed from Sidney's Arcadia . Edgar ( AD 943-75 ) is a highly significant name in English ...
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... Lear's part . Thus , it might be said that Lear actually starts ' mad ' in the American sense of ' mad with rage ' at the failure of justice in the world , and then goes sane , finally accepting his Fool's existentialist training in the ...
... Lear's part . Thus , it might be said that Lear actually starts ' mad ' in the American sense of ' mad with rage ' at the failure of justice in the world , and then goes sane , finally accepting his Fool's existentialist training in the ...
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References to this book
Shakespeare and Cognition: Aristotle's Legacy and Shakespearean Drama Arthur F. Kinney Limited preview - 2006 |