Lighting the Shakespearean Stage, 1567 - 1642
Lighting the Shakespearean Stage, 1567 - 1642

Author: R. B. Graves

Publisher: SIU Press

Published: 1999-12-08

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9780809322756

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In Lighting the Shakespearean Stage, 1567–1642,R. B. Graves examines the lighting of early modern English drama from both historical and aesthetic perspectives. He traces the contrasting traditions of sunlit amphitheaters and candlelit hall playhouses, describes the different lighting techniques, and estimates the effect of these techniques both indoors and outdoors. Graves discusses the importance of stage lighting in determining the dramatic effect, even in cases where the manipulation of light was not under the direct control of the theater artists. He devotes a chapter to the early modern lighting equipment available to English Renaissance actors and surveys theatrical lighting before the construction of permanent playhouses in London. Elizabethan stage lighting, he argues, drew on both classical and medieval precedents.

Textual Formations and Reformations
Textual Formations and Reformations

Author: Laurie E. Maguire

Publisher: University of Delaware Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780874136555

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This volume analyzes the development of textual theory and practice in the twentieth century, questioning not just the assumptions and methodologies of textual study but the very genesis of textual study and current definitions of the field. Each contributor tackles a specific theoretical or practical issue in essays that cover feminist practice, editorial procedure, political ideology, practical dramaturgy, and sixteenth- and twentieth-century history. The result is a volume at once wide-ranging and detailed, of interest and value to cultural historians as well as to textual scholars.

The Shakespearean Stage, 1574-1642
The Shakespearean Stage, 1574-1642

Author: Andrew Gurr

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1992-01-23

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 9780521422406

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The only authoritative, one-volume book to describe all the main features of the original staging of Shakespearean drama.

Elizabethan Theatre History: An Annotated Bibliography of Scholarship, 1664-1979
Elizabethan Theatre History: An Annotated Bibliography of Scholarship, 1664-1979

Author: David Stevens

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2011-11

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 1105175219

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Formerly published as "English Renaissance Theatre History: A Reference Guide" by G. K. Hall in 1982, this annotated bibliography of scholarship in the field of Elizabethan theatre history has been out of print for almost 30 years. Most academic libraries have a copy in their reference departments, and this classic is now available for the personal libraries of students and scholars in the field. It has never been easier to review the academic literature in such areas as reconstructions of Shakespeare's Globe Playhouse, and other public and private playhouses of Shakespeare's London; the court masques; Inigo Jones; Richard Burbage and other actors of the time; the Lord Mayor's Shows; Puritan opposition to the stage; and other such topics. The terminal date of 1979 reflects the date of original production, but with this tool it is a simple matter for the scholar to update his or her review of the literature. The comprehensive Index is invaluable, and Stevens also provides a preface and introduction.

The Elizabethan Theatre and "The Book of Sir Thomas More''
The Elizabethan Theatre and

Author: Scott McMillin

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2019-06-30

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 1501742647

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The manuscript of the Elizabethan play Sir Thomas More has intrigued scholars for over a century because three of its pages may have been written by Shakespeare. The Elizabethan Theatre and "The Book of Sir Thomas More" sets aside the timeworn question of authorship and considers the play in a new framework, one which by focusing on questions of the theatre attempts to free Elizabethan theatre history from the grip of its most famous author. Bringing to bear on the manuscript the perspective of a theatre historian and the resources of textual scholarship, Scott McMillin departs from most critical accounts, which have judged Sir Thomas More unfinished. Rather, McMillin addresses the manuscript as a coherent and finished work that achieves its intended purpose: to serve as a prompt book in the Elizabethan playhouse. His systematic analysis of the Sir Thomas More manuscript shows that the company for which it was written was unusually large, that it had a lead actor of outstanding capability, and that in its staging of the play it probably made use of visual repetition as an ironic device. He concludes that the theatre company of the period that most closely matched this description was Lord Strange's men, a company, incidentally, for which Shakespeare himself was known to have written in the early 1590s. Textual scholars, theatre historians, and students and scholars of Elizabethan drama will welcome The Elizabethan Theatre and "The Book of Sir Thomas More."