The Elizabethan Dumb Show (Routledge Revivals)
The Elizabethan Dumb Show (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Dieter Mehl

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 1136832300

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First published in English in 1965, this book discusses the roots and development of the dumb show as a device in Elizabethan drama. The work provides not only a useful manual for those who wish to check the occurrence of dumb shows and the uses to which they are put; it also makes a real contribution to a better understanding of the progress of Elizabethan drama, and sheds new light on some of the lesser known plays of the period.

Early Modern Theatricality
Early Modern Theatricality

Author: Henry S. Turner

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2013-12

Total Pages: 637

ISBN-13: 0199641358

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Early Modern Theatricality brings together some of the most innovative critics in the field to examine the many conventions that characterized early modern theatricality. It generates fresh possibilities for criticism, combining historical, formal, and philosophical questions, in order to provoke our rediscovery of early modern drama.

Stage Directions and Shakespearean Theatre
Stage Directions and Shakespearean Theatre

Author: Gillian Woods

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-12-14

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1474257488

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What do 'stage directions' do in early modern drama? Who or what are they directing: action on the stage, or imagination via the page? Is the label 'stage direction' helpful or misleading? Do these 'directions' provide evidence of Renaissance playhouse practice? What happens when we put them at the centre of literary close readings of early modern plays? Stage Directions and Shakespearean Theatre investigates these problems through innovative research by a range of international experts. This collection of essays examines the creative possibilities of stage directions and and their implications for actors and audiences, readers and editors, historians and contemporary critics. Looking at the different ways stage directions make meaning, this volume provides new insights into a range of Renaissance plays.

Readings on the Character of Hamlet
Readings on the Character of Hamlet

Author: Claude C H Williamson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-09-13

Total Pages: 698

ISBN-13: 1136566082

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First published in 1950. This volume contains the essence of over three hundred well-known literary critics who, between 1661 and 1947, considered the great literary riddle of the years · Entries arranged chronologically by date of publication · International authorship of material