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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... present , such as the Victorian or Edwardian eras . This choice reconciles us to the archaisms without seeming so remote as the Tudor period , which may often seem irrelevant to modern times . The 1930s setting of Ian McKellen's Richard ...
... present , such as the Victorian or Edwardian eras . This choice reconciles us to the archaisms without seeming so remote as the Tudor period , which may often seem irrelevant to modern times . The 1930s setting of Ian McKellen's Richard ...
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... present a simply patriotic reading of the French campaigns in Henry V and Henry VI , since both plays may have more the force of dreadful warnings to Elizabethans about the military and political mistakes of their ancestors in the ...
... present a simply patriotic reading of the French campaigns in Henry V and Henry VI , since both plays may have more the force of dreadful warnings to Elizabethans about the military and political mistakes of their ancestors in the ...
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... present them as both positive and negative moral examples , or as more complex cases providing topics for political and theological debate . Overall , Shakespeare presents us with more weak , bad or unsuccessful rulers than with those ...
... present them as both positive and negative moral examples , or as more complex cases providing topics for political and theological debate . Overall , Shakespeare presents us with more weak , bad or unsuccessful rulers than with those ...
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References to this book
Shakespeare and Cognition: Aristotle's Legacy and Shakespearean Drama Arthur F. Kinney Limited preview - 2006 |