Shakespeare and the Spectacles of Strangeness
Shakespeare and the Spectacles of Strangeness

Author: John G. Demaray

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13:

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Shakespeare and the Spectacles of Strangeness pays close attention to genre, structure and issues of printing and textual scholarship. Demaray examines the First Folio printings of The Tempest and of printings of drama, masques, balets de cour, spectacle productions and stage documents. On the basis of these primary documents, Demaray is able to show the influence of the conventions of court presentations on Shakespeare's theatrical references, and to reveal new accounts of the imaginative significance of stage illusions designed by Inigo Jones in the early 1600s.

"The Tempest" and Its Travels

Author: Peter Hulme

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780812217537

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A casebook of the ways the Shakespeare play has been reinterpreted time and time again.

The Staging of Witchcraft and a “Spectacle of Strangeness”
The Staging of Witchcraft and a “Spectacle of Strangeness”

Author: Shokhan Rasool Ahmed

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2014-10-09

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1496992814

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The Staging of Witchcraft and a Spectacle of Strangeness: Witchcraft at Court and the Globe presents a new interest in Continental texts on witchcraft coincided with technological advances in the English stage, which made a variety of dramatic effects possible in the private playhouses, such as flying witches, and the appearance of spirits and deities in Elizabethan plays. This book also evaluates how the technology of the Blackfriars playhouse facilitated the appearance of spirits, devils, witches, magicians, deities and dragons on stage. The study investigates the visual spectacle of witchcraft scenes which intersect with the genre of the plays, and it also presents to what extent changing theatrical tastes affect the way that supernatural characters are shown on stage.

On the Date, Sources and Design of Shakespeare's The Tempest
On the Date, Sources and Design of Shakespeare's The Tempest

Author: Roger A. Stritmatter

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2013-08-19

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0786471042

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This book challenges a longstanding and deeply ingrained belief in Shakespearean studies that The Tempest--long supposed to be Shakespeare's last play--was not written until 1611. In the course of investigating this proposition, which has not received the critical inquiry it deserves, a number of subsidiary and closely related interpretative puzzles come sharply into focus. These include the play's sources of New World imagery; its festival symbolism and structure; its relationship to William Strachey's True Reportory account of the 1609 Bermuda wreck of the Sea Venture (not published until 1625)--and the tangled history of how and why scholars have for so long misunderstood these matters. Publication of some preliminary elements of the authors' arguments in leading Shakespearean journals (starting in 2007) ignited a controversy that became part of the critical history. This book presents the case in full for the first time.

The Visual Spectacle of Witchcraft in Jacobean Plays
The Visual Spectacle of Witchcraft in Jacobean Plays

Author: Shokhan Rasool Ahmed

Publisher: Author House

Published: 2014-10-13

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 1496992830

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The Visual Spectacle of Witchcraft in Jacobean Plays: Blackfriars Theatre is an ideal reference for early modern scholars and lecturers who seek a thorough and practical guide to stage directions in print and performance, and paying particular attention to the early texts as evidence of performance practice. Stage directions here are re-thought in the light of early theatre practice, and the issues of stage directions as evidence of performance practice and later interpolations, in association with witchcraft, of several Jacobean plays can be found in this book. This book includes a general introduction to Blackfriars witchcraft plays and the Jacobean theatre, a chronology, suggestions for further reading and discussing performance options on both indoor and outdoor playhouses, and a commentary. The illuminating and informative general introduction and the short introductions to individual plays have been revised in the light of current scholarship.

The Staging of Romance in Late Shakespeare
The Staging of Romance in Late Shakespeare

Author: Christopher J. Cobb

Publisher: University of Delaware Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9780874139716

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This book examines Shakespeare's response in his late plays to the challenge of making romance stories believable through theatrical representation and the kind of experience the late plays in performance seek to create for their spectators. Taking The Winter's Tale as a case study, the book's central chapters demonstrate how Shakespeare tests and transforms the techniques to create the sweeping, restorative transformations of individuals and communities that are central to both earlier dramatic romances and Shakespeare's own romance experiments. The book's three other chapters address the methodologies for study of spectator's experience through a dramatic text, the history of dramatic romance to 1610, and Shakespeare's further experiments with the staging of romance after The Winter's Tale.-

Shakespeare's Visual Theatre
Shakespeare's Visual Theatre

Author: Frederick Kiefer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-09-25

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 9780521827256

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In this study of Shakespeare's visual culture Frederick Kiefer looks at the personified characters created by Shakespeare in his plays, his walking, talking abstractions. These include Rumour in 2 Henry IV, Time in The Winter's Tale, Spring and Winter in Love's Labour's Lost, Revenge in Titus Andronicus, and the deities in the late plays. All these personae take physical form on the stage: the actors performing the roles wear distinctive attire and carry appropriate props. The book seeks to reconstruct the appearance of Shakespeare's personified characters; to explain the symbolism of their costumes and props; and to assess the significance of these symbolic characters for the plays in which they appear. To accomplish this reconstruction, Kiefer brings together a wealth of visual and literary evidence including engravings, woodcuts, paintings, drawings, tapestries, emblems, civic pageants, masques, poetry and plays. The book contains over forty illustrations of personified characters in Shakespeare's time.