Shakespeare's Double Plays
Shakespeare's Double Plays

Author: Brett Gamboa

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-05-03

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1108417434

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Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. 'Improbable fictions: Shakespeare's plays without the plays; 2. Versatility and verisimilitude on sixteenth-century stages; 3. Doubling in The Winter's Tale; 4. Dramaturgical directives and Shakespeare's cast size; 5. Doubling in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Romeo and Juliet; 6. Where the boys aren't; 7. Doubling in Twelfth Night and Othello; Epilogue: Ragozine and Shakespearean substitution; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.

The Book of Will
The Book of Will

Author: Lauren Gunderson

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Published: 2018-06-18

Total Pages: 95

ISBN-13: 0822237725

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Without William Shakespeare, we wouldn’t have literary masterpieces like Romeo and Juliet. But without Henry Condell and John Heminges, we would have lost half of Shakespeare’s plays forever! After the death of their friend and mentor, the two actors are determined to compile the First Folio and preserve the words that shaped their lives. They’ll just have to borrow, beg, and band together to get it done. Amidst the noise and color of Elizabethan London, THE BOOK OF WILL finds an unforgettable true story of love, loss, and laughter, and sheds new light on a man you may think you know.

Playing Shakespeare
Playing Shakespeare

Author: John Barton

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2010-11-10

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 0307773914

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Playing Shakespeare is the premier guide to understanding and appreciating the mastery of the world’s greatest playwright. Together with Royal Shakespeare Company actors–among them Patrick Stewart, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Ben Kingsley, and David Suchet–John Barton demonstrates how to adapt Elizabethan theater for the modern stage. The director begins by explicating Shakespeare’s verse and prose, speeches and soliloquies, and naturalistic and heightened language to discover the essence of his characters. In the second section, Barton and the actors explore nuance in Shakespearean theater, from evoking irony and ambiguity and striking the delicate balance of passion and profound intellectual thought, to finding new approaches to playing Shakespeare’s most controversial creation, Shylock, from The Merchant of Venice. A practical and essential guide, Playing Shakespeare will stand for years as the authoritative favorite among actors, scholars, teachers, and students.

Shakespeare Survey: Volume 68, Shakespeare, Origins and Originality
Shakespeare Survey: Volume 68, Shakespeare, Origins and Originality

Author: Peter Holland

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-09-24

Total Pages: 1390

ISBN-13: 1316368998

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Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948, the Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year's textual and critical studies and of the year's major British performances. The theme for Volume 68 is 'Shakespeare, Origins and Originality'. The complete set of Survey volumes is also available online at http://www.cambridge.org/online/shakespearesurvey. This fully searchable resource enables users to browse by author, essay and volume, search by play, theme and topic, and save and bookmark their results.

Shakespeare's Boy Actors
Shakespeare's Boy Actors

Author: Robertson Davies

Publisher:

Published: 1964

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13:

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Best friends Arlo and Robby are almost identical in what they wear, what they like, and even where they have teeth missing, but when Robby insists on betting on who is going to lose the next tooth their friendship is endangered.

Boy Actors in Early Modern England
Boy Actors in Early Modern England

Author: Harry R. McCarthy

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-09

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 1009098950

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This innovative study draws on theatre history and present-day performance to re-appraise the remarkable skills of early modern boy actors.

Shakespeare in Company
Shakespeare in Company

Author: Bart van Es

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2013-02-14

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 0199569312

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Considering both Shakespeare's fellow writers as well as members of his acting company Shakespeare in Company offers a unique insight into the company kept by William Shakespeare and how it impacted on his writing.

The First English Actresses
The First English Actresses

Author: Elizabeth Howe

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1992-06-04

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9780521422109

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This book describes how and why women were permitted to act on the public stage after 1660 in England.

Shakespeare's R & J
Shakespeare's R & J

Author: Joe Calarco

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9780822216797

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THE STORY: Four young prep school students, tired of going through the usual drill of conjugating Latin and other tedious school routines, decide to vary their very governed lives. After school, one breaks out a copy of William Shakespeare's Rom