Stage-directions Within the Lines of Shakespeare's Plays
Author: Albert Lyell Walker
Publisher:
Published: 1930
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13:
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Equivocation
Author: Bill Cain
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 131
ISBN-13: 0822225913
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"England, 1605: A terrorist plot to assassinate King James I and blow Parliament to kingdom come with 36 barrels of devilish gunpowder! Shagspeare (after a contemporary spelling of the Bard's name) is commissioned by Robert Cecil, the prime minister, to write the "true historie" of the plot. And it must have witches! The King wants witches! But as Shag and the acting company of the Globe, under the direction of the great Richard Burbage, investigate the plot, they discover that the King's version of the story might, in fact, be a cover-up. Shag and his actors are confronted with the ultimate moral and artistic dilemma. Speak truth to power-and perhaps lose their heads? Or take the money and lie? Is there a third option-equivocation? A high-stakes political thriller with contemporary resonances, EQUIVOCATION gallops from the great Globe to the Tower of London to the halls of Parliament to the heart of Judith, Shag's younger daughter, who finds herself unexpectedly at the very heart of the political, dramatic and-ultimately-human mystery." - from publisher's website.
Stage Directions and Shakespearean Theatre
Author: Gillian Woods
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2017-12-14
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 1474257496
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat 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.
Staging Shakespeare
Author: Lena Cowen Orlin
Publisher: Associated University Presse
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780874139877
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeatures twelve essays that explore the relationships between Shakespearean pedagogy, performance, and scholarship. This volume consists of four sections, entitled Acts of Recovery; Performing the Moment; Recordings; and Extensions and Explorations.
A Dictionary of Stage Directions in English Drama 1580-1642
Author: Alan C. Dessen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-03-15
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780521000291
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis dictionary, the first of its kind, defines and explains over 900 terms found in the stage directions of plays for the professional stage written by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The authors draw on a database of over 22,000 stage directions drawn from around 500 plays. Each entry defines a term, gives examples of how it is used, cites additional instances, and gives cross-references to other relevant entries. This will be an indispensable work of reference for scholars, historians, directors and actors.
This Is Shakespeare
Author: Emma Smith
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2020-03-31
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 1524748552
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn electrifying new study that investigates the challenges of the Bard’s inconsistencies and flaws, and focuses on revealing—not resolving—the ambiguities of the plays and their changing topicality A genius and prophet whose timeless works encapsulate the human condition like no other. A writer who surpassed his contemporaries in vision, originality, and literary mastery. A man who wrote like an angel, putting it all so much better than anyone else. Is this Shakespeare? Well, sort of. But it doesn’t tell us the whole truth. So much of what we say about Shakespeare is either not true, or just not relevant. In This Is Shakespeare, Emma Smith—an intellectually, theatrically, and ethically exciting writer—takes us into a world of politicking and copycatting, as we watch Shakespeare emulating the blockbusters of Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Kyd (the Spielberg and Tarantino of their day), flirting with and skirting around the cutthroat issues of succession politics, religious upheaval, and technological change. Smith writes in strikingly modern ways about individual agency, privacy, politics, celebrity, and sex. Instead of offering the answers, the Shakespeare she reveals poses awkward questions, always inviting the reader to ponder ambiguities.
The Stage Directions Guide to Shakespeare
Author: Stephen Peithman
Publisher: Heinemann Drama
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Stage Directions Guide to Shakespeare offers sane, sensible advice on reasons to do (or not to do) Shakespeare, assessing your theatre group abilities, selecting a play, casting, making costume and set decisions, the special demands of directing and playing Shakespeare and publicity.
Shakespeare's Tragedy of Macbeth
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
Published: 1886
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShakespeare in Parts
Author: Simon Palfrey
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007-09-27
Total Pages: 560
ISBN-13: 0199272050
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA truly groundbreaking collaboration of original theatre history with exciting literary criticism, Shakespeare in Parts is the first book fully to explore the original form in which Shakespeare's drama overwhelmingly circulated. This was not the full play-text; it was not the public performance. It was the actor's part, consisting of the bare cues and speeches of each individual role. With group rehearsals rare or non-existent, the cued part alone had to furnish the actor with his character. But each such part-text was riddled with gaps and uncertainties. The actor knew what he was going to say, but not necessarily when, or why, or to whom; he may have known next to nothing of any other part. Starting with a comprehensive history of the part in early modern theatre, Simon Palfrey and Tiffany Stern's work provides a unique keyhole onto hitherto forgotten practices and techniques. It not only discovers a newly active, choice-ridden actor, but a new Shakespeare.
Onstage and Offstage Worlds in Shakespeare's Plays
Author: Anthony Brennan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-03-30
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 1000350142
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1989, this book focuses on the handling of the relationship between the onstage world and the offstage world, between the world that Shakespeare shows us and the one he tells us about. It is developed in two parts. Initially examined is the way reports are used in Shakespeare to relate the offstage and onstage worlds, building from simple examples within individual scenes in various plays to related sequences of reports which can be evaluated as part of broader strategies effecting the structure of a whole play. In the second part the author examines the ways in which several, or all, of these strategies work in individual plays, and what combined effect the prominent employment of them has in shaping the effect of the plays. In all cases the author is concerned to indicate why Shakespeare chose to handle matters as he does rather than in other ways available in the sources or in the speculative alternative methods which can be imaginatively constructed.
