Author: Joe Falocco
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843842416
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Numerous attempts have been made in the modern and postmodern era to recreate the staging conventions of Shakespeare's theatre, from William Poel to the founders of the New Globe. This volume examines the work of these directors, analyzing their practical successes and failures; it also engages with the ideological critiques of early modern staging advanced by scholars such as W.B. Worthen and Ric Knowles. The author argues that rather than indulging in archaism for its own sake, the movement looked backward in a progressive attempt to address the challenges of the twentieth century. The book begins with a re-examination of the conventional view of Poel as an antiquarian crank. Subsequent chapters are devoted to Harley Granville Barker and Nugent Monck; the author argues that while Barker's major contribution was the dubious achievement of establishing the movement's reputation as an essentially literary phenomenon, Monck took the first tentative steps toward an architectural reimagining of modern performance space, an advance which led to later triumphs in early modern staging. The book than traces the sporadic and irregular development of Tyrone Guthrie's commitment to early modern practices. The final chapter looks at how competing historical theories of playhouse design influenced the construction of the Globe, while the conclusion discusses the ongoing potential of early modern staging in the new millennium.
Reimagining Shakespeare's Playhouse
Author: Joe Falocco
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843842416
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Numerous attempts have been made in the modern and postmodern era to recreate the staging conventions of Shakespeare's theatre, from William Poel to the founders of the New Globe. This volume examines the work of these directors, analyzing their practical successes and failures; it also engages with the ideological critiques of early modern staging advanced by scholars such as W.B. Worthen and Ric Knowles. The author argues that rather than indulging in archaism for its own sake, the movement looked backward in a progressive attempt to address the challenges of the twentieth century. The book begins with a re-examination of the conventional view of Poel as an antiquarian crank. Subsequent chapters are devoted to Harley Granville Barker and Nugent Monck; the author argues that while Barker's major contribution was the dubious achievement of establishing the movement's reputation as an essentially literary phenomenon, Monck took the first tentative steps toward an architectural reimagining of modern performance space, an advance which led to later triumphs in early modern staging. The book than traces the sporadic and irregular development of Tyrone Guthrie's commitment to early modern practices. The final chapter looks at how competing historical theories of playhouse design influenced the construction of the Globe, while the conclusion discusses the ongoing potential of early modern staging in the new millennium.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843842416
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Numerous attempts have been made in the modern and postmodern era to recreate the staging conventions of Shakespeare's theatre, from William Poel to the founders of the New Globe. This volume examines the work of these directors, analyzing their practical successes and failures; it also engages with the ideological critiques of early modern staging advanced by scholars such as W.B. Worthen and Ric Knowles. The author argues that rather than indulging in archaism for its own sake, the movement looked backward in a progressive attempt to address the challenges of the twentieth century. The book begins with a re-examination of the conventional view of Poel as an antiquarian crank. Subsequent chapters are devoted to Harley Granville Barker and Nugent Monck; the author argues that while Barker's major contribution was the dubious achievement of establishing the movement's reputation as an essentially literary phenomenon, Monck took the first tentative steps toward an architectural reimagining of modern performance space, an advance which led to later triumphs in early modern staging. The book than traces the sporadic and irregular development of Tyrone Guthrie's commitment to early modern practices. The final chapter looks at how competing historical theories of playhouse design influenced the construction of the Globe, while the conclusion discusses the ongoing potential of early modern staging in the new millennium.
Reimagining Shakespeare for Children and Young Adults
Author: Naomi Miller
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135363358
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135363358
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Moving Shakespeare Indoors
Author: Andrew Gurr
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107040639
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
This book examines the conditions of the original performances in seventeenth-century indoor theatres.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107040639
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
This book examines the conditions of the original performances in seventeenth-century indoor theatres.
Performing Transversally
Author: Bryan Reynolds
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137107642
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Performing Transversally expands on Bryan Reynolds' controversial transversal theory in exciting ways while offering groundbreaking analyses of Shakespeare's plays - Hamlet , Othello , Macbeth , Taming of the Shrew , Titus Andronicus , Henry V , The Tempest , and Coriolanus - and textual, filmic, and theatrical adaptations of them. With his collaborators, Reynolds challenges traditional readings of Shakespeare, re-evaluating the critical methodologies that characterize them, in regard to issues of cultural difference, authorship, representation, agency, and iconography. Reynolds demonstrates the value of his 'investigative-expansive mode,' outlining a 'transversal poetics' that points toward a critical future that is more aware of its subjective interconnectedness with the topics and audiences it seeks to engage than is reflected in most Shakespeare criticism and literary-cultural scholarship.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137107642
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Performing Transversally expands on Bryan Reynolds' controversial transversal theory in exciting ways while offering groundbreaking analyses of Shakespeare's plays - Hamlet , Othello , Macbeth , Taming of the Shrew , Titus Andronicus , Henry V , The Tempest , and Coriolanus - and textual, filmic, and theatrical adaptations of them. With his collaborators, Reynolds challenges traditional readings of Shakespeare, re-evaluating the critical methodologies that characterize them, in regard to issues of cultural difference, authorship, representation, agency, and iconography. Reynolds demonstrates the value of his 'investigative-expansive mode,' outlining a 'transversal poetics' that points toward a critical future that is more aware of its subjective interconnectedness with the topics and audiences it seeks to engage than is reflected in most Shakespeare criticism and literary-cultural scholarship.
Reimagining Shakespeare Education
Author: Liam E. Semler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108478670
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
A showcase of innovative, global, collaborative Shakespeare education projects between institutions, educators, practitioners and students.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108478670
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
A showcase of innovative, global, collaborative Shakespeare education projects between institutions, educators, practitioners and students.
Shakespeare and Lost Plays
Author: David McInnis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108843263
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Explores Shakespeare's plays in their most immediate context: the hundreds of plays known to original audiences, but lost to us.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108843263
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Explores Shakespeare's plays in their most immediate context: the hundreds of plays known to original audiences, but lost to us.
Shakespeare, Spectatorship and the Technologies of Performance
Author: Pascale Aebischer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108420486
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Examining how technological developments in performance practices affect spectator experience of Shakespeare and early modern drama.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108420486
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Examining how technological developments in performance practices affect spectator experience of Shakespeare and early modern drama.
Reimagining American Theatre
Author: Robert Brustein
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0809080583
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Wide-ranging, discerning essays and reviews in which Mr. Brustein finds that the theatre has been quietly reinventing the nature of its art.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0809080583
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Wide-ranging, discerning essays and reviews in which Mr. Brustein finds that the theatre has been quietly reinventing the nature of its art.
Theatre, Technicity, Shakespeare
Author: W. B. Worthen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108498132
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Worthen uses contemporary Shakespeare performance to explore the technicity of theatre: its changing work as an intermedial technology.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108498132
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Worthen uses contemporary Shakespeare performance to explore the technicity of theatre: its changing work as an intermedial technology.
Shakespeare's Theatres and the Effects of Performance
Author: Farah Karim Cooper
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408157055
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
How did Elizabethan and Jacobean acting companies create their visual and aural effects? What materials were available to them and how did they influence staging and writing? What impact did the sensations of theatre have on early modern audiences? How did the construction of the playhouses contribute to technological innovations in the theatre? What effect might these innovations have had on the writing of plays? Shakespeare's Theatres and The Effects of Performance is a landmark collection of essays by leading international scholars addressing these and other questions to create a unique and comprehensive overview of the practicalities and realities of the theatre in the early modern period.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408157055
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
How did Elizabethan and Jacobean acting companies create their visual and aural effects? What materials were available to them and how did they influence staging and writing? What impact did the sensations of theatre have on early modern audiences? How did the construction of the playhouses contribute to technological innovations in the theatre? What effect might these innovations have had on the writing of plays? Shakespeare's Theatres and The Effects of Performance is a landmark collection of essays by leading international scholars addressing these and other questions to create a unique and comprehensive overview of the practicalities and realities of the theatre in the early modern period.