Author: Alexander Leggatt
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134983468
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Jacobean Public Theatre recovers for the modern reader the acting, production and performance values of the public theatre of Jacobean London. It relates this drama to the popular culutre of the day and concludes with a close study of four important plays, including King Lear, which emerge in an unexpected light as the products of popular tradition.
Author: Keith Sturgess
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315301970
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 219
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In this scholarly and entertaining book, first published in 1987, the author tells the story of Jacobean private theatre. Most of the best plays written after 1610, including Shakespeare’s late plays such as The Tempest, were written for the new breed of private playhouses – small, roofed and designed for an aristocratic, literary audience, as opposed to the larger, open-air houses such as the Globe and the Red Bull, catering for a popular, ‘lowbrow’ audience. The author discusses the polarisation of taste and the effect it had on literary criticism and theatre history. This title will be of interest to students of English Literature, Drama and Performance.
Author: Gwynne Blakemore Evans
Publisher: New Amsterdam Books
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Treats, through excerpts from contemporary opinion and official documents, various aspects of the little world of theatre in the full context of Elizabethan-Jacobean life and times.
Author: David Farley-Hills
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349191973
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Jonson, Marston, Chapman, Middleton, Heywood, Webster and Fletcher are playwrights of the Jacobean stage whose outstanding literary achievements have to some extent been obscured or misunderstood in Shakespeare's shadow. This timely reassessment, based on the accumulated scholarship of the decades since Una Ellis-Fermor's Jacobean Drama in 1936, comes when the opening of the Swan Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon gives the public, at last, the chance to see on the professional stage some of the neglected masterpieces of the richest period of our theatre.
Author: David Scott Kastan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317949803
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 305
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First published in 1992. In the English Renaissance theater, the text is structured by the multiple and complex collaborations that the theater demanded between patrons and players, playwrights and printers, playhouses and playgoers. The essays in this volume attempt to register these collaborations, emphasizing the ways in which the theater is at once responsive to and constitutive of the social formations of Renaissance England. At the same time, these essays recognize that their historical grounding is not unproblematic.
Author: Gerald Eades Bentley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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A standard and essential reference work on English Renaissance theatre.
Author: Lucy Munro
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781139446051
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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This book provides a detailed study of the Children of the Queen's Revels, the most enduring and influential of the Jacobean children's companies. Between 1603 and 1613 the Queen's Revels staged plays by Francis Beaumont, George Chapman, John Fletcher, Ben Jonson, John Marston and Thomas Middleton, all of whom were at their most innovative when writing for this company. Combining theatre history and critical analysis, this study provides a history of the Children of the Queen's Revels, and an account of their repertory. It examines the 'biography' of the company - demonstrating the involvement in dramatic production of dramatists, shareholders, patrons, audiences and actors alike, and reappraising issues such as management, performance style and audience composition - before exploring their groundbreaking practices in comedy, tragicomedy and tragedy. The book also includes five documentary appendices detailing the plays, people and performances of the Queen's Revels Company.
Author: Andrew Gurr
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107040639
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 307
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This book examines the conditions of the original performances in seventeenth-century indoor theatres.
Author: Tristan Marshall
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719057489
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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This book looks at the genesis of the British national identity in the reign of King James I and VI. While devolution is currently decentralizing Britain, this book examines how the idea of a united kingdom was created in the first place. It does this by studying both the political language of the King’s project to replace England, Scotland, and Wales with a single kingdom of Great Britain and the cultural representations of empire on the public and private stages.
Author: Blakemore G. Evans
Publisher: New Amsterdam Books
ISBN: 1461710790
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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The purpose of this absorbing collection is to illuminate the world of the theatre by setting it squarely in its historical context. To that end, Professor Evans draws on the whole spectrum of Elizabethan-Jacobean writing, from official documents to diaries and letters. Part I, The Theatre and the World, deals, through contemporary writings, with the drama itself, the audiences and their responses, theatrical companies, acting and actors, and buildings and technical matters. Part II, The Worlds and the Theatre, illustrates how the problems of everyday life, complicated as they were by moral, religious, social, political, and economic issues, provided an ever-fruitful source of materials to the dramatists who practiced their craft during this extraordinarily creative period.
