Stage-directions Within the Lines of Shakespeare's Plays
Author: Albert Lyell Walker
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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 Representation of Shakespeare's Plays
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Published: 1893
Total Pages: 86
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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.
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.
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.
Onstage and Offstage Worlds in Shakespeare's Plays
Author: Anthony Brennan
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2021-03-30
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 1000349926
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.
How to Read a Shakespearean Play Text
Author: Eugene Giddens
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-02-10
Total Pages: 199
ISBN-13: 0521886406
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn invaluable introductory guide for students on how to engage with the original printed texts of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
Stage Directions in Hamlet
Author: Hardin L. Aasand
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780838639467
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe subject of stage directions in 'Hamlet', those brief semiotic codes that are embellished by historical, theatrical, and cultural considerations, produces a rigorous examination in the fifteen essays contained in this collection. This volume encompasses essays that are guardedly inductive in their critical approaches, as well as those that critique modern productions that attempt to achieve Shakespearean effect through a modern aesthetic. The volume also includes essays that enunciate the production of stage business as a cultural interplay between productions and social agencies outside the theater.
Staging in Shakespeare's Theatres
Author: Andrew Gurr
Publisher: Oxford Shakespeare Topics
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780198711582
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy bringing together evidence from different sources--documentary, archaeological, and the play-texts themselves--Staging Shakespeare's Theatres reconstructs the ways in which the plays were originally staged in the theaters of Shakespeare's own time, and shows how the physical possibilities and limitations of these theaters affected both the writing and the performances. The book explains the conditions under which the early playwrights and players worked, their preparation of the plays for the stage, and their rehearsal practices. It looks at the quality of evidence supplied by the surviving play-texts, and the extant to which audiences of the time differed from modern audiences; and it gives vivid examples of how Elizabethan actors made use of gestures, costumes, props, and the theater's specific design features. Stage movement is analyzed through a careful study of how exits and entrances worked on such stages. The final chapter offers a thorough examination of Hamlet as a text for performance, excitingly returning the play to its original staging at the Globe.
