Jacobean Private Theatre
Author: Keith Sturgess
Publisher:
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781315301990
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Author: Keith Sturgess
Publisher:
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781315301990
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Keith Sturgess
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-03-27
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 1315301970
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this scholarly and entertaining book, first published in 1987, the author tells the story of Jacobean private theatre. Most of the best plays written after 1610, including Shakespeare’s late plays such as The Tempest, were written for the new breed of private playhouses – small, roofed and designed for an aristocratic, literary audience, as opposed to the larger, open-air houses such as the Globe and the Red Bull, catering for a popular, ‘lowbrow’ audience. The author discusses the polarisation of taste and the effect it had on literary criticism and theatre history. This title will be of interest to students of English Literature, Drama and Performance.
Author: Andrew Gurr
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-03-06
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 1107040639
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the conditions of the original performances in seventeenth-century indoor theatres.
Author: Alexander Leggatt
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-09-02
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1134983468
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJacobean Public Theatre recovers for the modern reader the acting, production and performance values of the public theatre of Jacobean London. It relates this drama to the popular culutre of the day and concludes with a close study of four important plays, including King Lear, which emerge in an unexpected light as the products of popular tradition.
Author: Hugh Macrae Richmond
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 590
ISBN-13: 9780826477767
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnder 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>
Author: Will Tosh
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2018-02-22
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1350013862
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat have we discovered about performance practice in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse since the opening of the intimate candlelit theatre at Shakespeare's Globe? Playing Indoors reveals the results of a two-year study into the performance of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama in this unique theatre, drawing together insights into early modern stage practice and the observations of today's actors and spectators. A history of the experiences of artists and audience members who experienced the space first, the book is also a study of the significance of re-imagined theatres like the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse and the Globe. Accessibly written and intended for a wide audience of students, scholars, artists and theatre-goers, Playing Indoors is a valuable contribution to the young field of early modern practice-as-research.
Author: Russell West-Pavlov
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9042016884
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBodies and their Spaces: System, Crisis and Transformation in Early Modern Theatre explores the emergence of the distinctively modern "gender system" at the close of the early modern period. The book investigates shifts in the gendered spaces assigned to men and women in the "public" and "private" domains and their changing modes of interconnection; in concert with these social spaces it examines the emergence of biologically based notions of sex and a novel sense of individual subjectivity. These parallel and linked transformations converged in the development of a new gender system which more efficiently enforced the requirements of patriarchy under the evolving economic conditions of merchant capitalism. These changes can be seen to be rehearsed, contested and debated in literary artefacts of the early modern period - in particular the drama. This book suggests that until the closure of the English theatres in 1642, the drama not only reflected but also exacerbated the turbulence surrounding gender configurations in transition in early modern society. The book reads a wide range of dramatic and non-dramatic texts, and interprets them with the aid of the "systems theory" developed by the German sociologist Niklas Luhmann.
Author: John Orrell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1985-02-28
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 0521255465
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the stage works that Inigo Jones and John Webb who are responsible for the visual aspects of the masques performed at the various royal palaces in the seventeenth century. The author establishes Jones and Webb as the most effective London theatre builders and scene designers at this time.
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-08-17
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9780521444071
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Shakespeare's valedictory play is also one of his most poetical and magical. The story involves the spirit Ariel, the savage Caliban, and Prospero, the banished Duke of Milan, now a wizard living on a remote island who uses his magic to shipwreck a party of ex-compatriots. This extensively annotated version of The Tempest makes the play completely accessible to readers in the twenty-first century." "Linguist and translator Burton Raffel offers generous help with vocabulary, pronunciation, and prosody and provides alternative readings of phrases and lines. His on-page annotations give readers all the tools they need to comprehend the play and begin to explore its many possible interpretations. Raffel provides an introductory essay, and in a concluding essay, Harold Bloom examines the characters Prospero and Caliban."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Deborah C. Payne
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2024-05-31
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 1009398210
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDeborah C. Payne explores how the duopoly of 1660 impacted company practices, stagecraft, the box office, and actors and writers.