A Short History of Shakespeare in Performance
A Short History of Shakespeare in Performance

Author: Richard Schoch

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-05-13

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 110878867X

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This short history of Shakespeare in global performance-from the re-opening of London theatres upon the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 to our present multicultural day-provides a comprehensive overview of Shakespeare's theatrical afterlife and introduces categories of analysis and understanding to make that afterlife intellectually meaningful. Written for both the advanced student and the practicing scholar, this work enables readers to situate themselves historically in the broad field of Shakespeare performance studies and equips them with analytical tools and conceptual frameworks for making their own contributions to the field.

A Short History of Western Performance Space
A Short History of Western Performance Space

Author: David Wiles

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-10-02

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780521012744

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This innovative book provides a historical account of performance space within the theatrical traditions of western Europe. David Wiles takes a broad-based view of theatrical activity as something that occurs in churches, streets, pubs and galleries as much as in buildings explicitly designed to be 'theatres'. He traces a diverse set of continuities from Greece and Rome to the present, including many areas that do not figure in standard accounts of theatre history.

Shakespeare on Theatre
Shakespeare on Theatre

Author: William Shakespeare

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2013-04-01

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1623160332

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(Book). Shakespeare was a man of the theatre to his core, so it is no surprise that he repeatedly contemplated the nuts and bolts of his craft in his plays and poems. Shakespeare scholar Nick de Somogyi here draws together all the cherishable set pieces including "All the world's a stage," Hamlet's encounters with the Players, and Bottom's amateur theatricals along with many other oblique but no less revealing glances, and further insights into theatre practice by Shakespeare's contemporaries and rivals. De Somogyi's commentary takes us through the entire process of Shakespeare's theatrical production, from its casting and auditions, via rehearsals, costumes, and props, to its premiere and audience reception. Shakespeare on Theatre eavesdrops on the urgently whispered noises-off in the "tiring-house" and inhales the heady aroma of the Globe's first audiences.

Shakespeare, Music and Performance
Shakespeare, Music and Performance

Author: Bill Barclay

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-04-13

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1107139333

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This volume traces the uses of music in Shakespearean performance from the first Globe and Blackfriars to contemporary, global productions.

Shakespeare's Theatres and the Effects of Performance
Shakespeare's Theatres and the Effects of Performance

Author: Farah Karim Cooper

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2015-01-05

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 1408157055

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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.

Secrets of Acting Shakespeare
Secrets of Acting Shakespeare

Author: Patrick Tucker

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-11-05

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 1135862265

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Secrets of Acting Shakespeare isn't a book that gently instructs. It's a passionate, yes-you-can designed to prove that anybody can act Shakespeare. By explaining how Elizabethan actors had only their own lines and not entire playscripts, Patrick Tucker shows how much these plays work by ear. Secrets of Acting Shakespeare is a book for actors trained and amateur, as well as for anyone curious about how the Elizabethan theater worked.

Shakespeare and the Staging of English History
Shakespeare and the Staging of English History

Author: Janette Dillon

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2012-04-05

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780199593156

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This new study of Shakespeare's English history plays looks at the plays through the lens of early modern staging, focusing on the recurrence of particular stage pictures and 'units of action', and seeking to show how these units function in particular and characteristic ways within the history plays.

Imaginary Performances in Shakespeare
Imaginary Performances in Shakespeare

Author: Aureliu Manea

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-04-21

Total Pages: 151

ISBN-13: 1000074145

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In Imaginary Performances in Shakespeare, visionary modernist theatre director Aureliu Manea analyses the theatrical possibilities of Shakespeare. Through nineteen Shakespeare plays, Manea sketches the intellectual parameters, the visual languages, and the emotional worlds of imagined stage interpretations of each; these nineteen short essays are appended by his essay ‘Confessions,’ an autobiographical meditation on the nature of theatre and the role of the director. This captivating book which will be attractive to anyone interested in Shakespeare and modern theatre.