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Author: Andreas Höfele
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2014-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780198701019
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Shakespeare's London, the stage of the playhouse, the stake of the bear baiting arena, and the scaffold of public execution constituted an ensemble of related spectacles that shared the same audiences. Andreas Höfele argues that this generated a powerful exchange of images and a spill-over of animal features into Shakespeare's characters.
Author: Julie Sanders
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-02-20
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 1107729084
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEngaging and stimulating, this Introduction provides a fresh vista of the early modern theatrical landscape. Chapters are arranged according to key genres (tragedy, revenge, satire, history play, pastoral and city comedy), punctuated by a series of focused case studies on topics ranging from repertoire to performance style, political events to the physical body of the actor, and from plays in print to the space of the playhouse. Julie Sanders encourages readers to engage with particular dramatic moments, such as opening scenes, skulls on stage or the conventions of disguise, and to apply the materials and methods contained in the book in inventive ways. A timeline and frequent cross-references provide continuity. Always alert to the possibilities of performance, Sanders reveals the remarkable story of early modern drama not through individual writers, but through repertoires and company practices, helping to relocate and re-imagine canonical plays and playwrights.
Author: Allison K. Deutermann
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-05-07
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 3030523322
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat did publicity look like before the eighteenth century? What were its uses and effects, and around whom was it organized? The essays in this collection ask these questions of early modern London. Together, they argue that commercial theater was a vital engine in celebrity’s production. The men and women associated with playing—not just actors and authors, but playgoers, characters, and the extraordinary local figures adjunct to playhouse productions—introduced new ways of thinking about the function and meaning of fame in the period; about the networks of communication through which it spread; and about theatrical publics. Drawing on the insights of Habermasean public sphere theory and on the interdisciplinary field of celebrity studies, Publicity and the Early Modern Stage introduces a new and comprehensive look at early modern theories and experiences of publicity.
Author: Diana E. Henderson
Publisher: Associated University Presse
Published: 2015-09-30
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 0838644767
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Leland
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2016-01-21
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 147666336X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study provides the first comprehensive examination of every prop in Shakespeare's plays, whether mentioned in stage directions, indicated in dialogue or implied by the action. Building on the latest scholarship and offering a witty treatment of the subject, the authors delve into numerous historical documents, the business of theater in Renaissance England, and the plays themselves to explain what audiences might have seen at the Globe, the Rose, the Curtain, or the Blackfriars Playhouse, and why it matters. Students of the plays will be able to read beyond Shakespeare's words and visualize the drama as it might have appeared on the stage. Scholars will find a wealth of previously unmined material for reconstructing Renaissance theatrical practices. School drama groups, amateur theaters and directors and prop masters of professional troupes will find help in mounting their own productions as the Bard's audiences would have seen them.
Author: Evelyn O'Malley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2020-12-24
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1350078077
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom The Pastoral Players' 1884 performance of As You Like It to contemporary site-specific productions activist interventions, there is a rich history of open air performances of Shakespeare's plays beyond their early modern origins. Weathering Shakespeare reveals how new insights from the environmental humanities can transform our understanding of this popular performance practice. Drawing on audience accounts of outdoor productions of those plays most commonly chosen for open air performance – including A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest – the book examines how performers and audiences alike have reacted to unpredictable natural environments.
Author: Marchella Ward
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-11-30
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1009372777
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the role that spectators play in the reception and perpetuation of ableist stereotypes about blindness in the theatre.
Author: Naomi Conn Liebler
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2021-05-20
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1350155012
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this volume, 8 lively, original essays by eminent scholars trace the kaleidoscopically shifting dramatic forms, performance contexts, and social implications of tragedy throughout the period and across geographic, political, and social references. They attend not only to the familiar cultural lenses of English and mainstream Continental dramas but also to less familiar European exempla from Croatia and Hungary. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: forms and media; sites of performance and circulation; communities of production and consumption; philosophy and social theory; religion, ritual and myth; politics of city and nation; society and family, and gender and sexuality.
Author: James R. Siemon
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Published: 2014-09-30
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 0838644740
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn annual volume containing essays and studies by critics and cultural historians from around the world. Also includes two review articles and thirteen books reviews.
Author: Evelyn Gajowski
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-09-19
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 1317698347
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Merry Wives of Windsor has recently experienced a resurgence of critical interest. At times considered one of Shakespeare’s weaker plays, it is often dismissed or marginalized; however, developments in feminist, ecocritical and new historicist criticism have opened up new perspectives and this collection of 18 essays by top Shakespeare scholars sheds fresh light on the play. The detailed introduction by Phyllis Rackin and Evelyn Gajowski provides a historical survey of the play and ties into an evolving critical and cultural context. The book’s sections look in turn at female community/female agency; theatrical alternatives; social and theatrical contexts; desire/sexuality; nature and performance to provide a contemporary critical analysis of the play.
