Prologues to Shakespeare's Theatre

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134313705
Total Pages : 221 pages
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Book Synopsis Prologues to Shakespeare's Theatre by : Douglas Bruster

Download or read book Prologues to Shakespeare's Theatre written by Douglas Bruster and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eye-opening study draws attention to the largely neglected form of the early modern prologue. Reading the prologue in performed as well as printed contexts, Douglas Bruster and Robert Weimann take us beyond concepts of stability and autonomy in dramatic beginnings to reveal the crucial cultural functions performed by the prologue in Elizabethan England. While its most basic task is to seize the attention of a noisy audience, the prologue's more significant threshold position is used to usher spectators and actors through a rite of passage. Engaging competing claims, expectations and offerings, the prologue introduces, authorizes and, critically, straddles the worlds of the actual theatrical event and the 'counterfeit' world on stage. In this way, prologues occupy a unique and powerful position between two orders of cultural practice and perception. Close readings of prologues by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, including Marlowe, Peele and Lyly, demonstrate the prologue's role in representing both the world in the play and playing in the world. Through their detailed examination of this remarkable form and its functions, the authors provide a fascinating perspective on early modern drama, a perspective that enriches our knowledge of the plays' socio-cultural context and their mode of theatrical address and action.

Prologue [to Gala Performance]

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 23 pages
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Book Synopsis Prologue [to Gala Performance] by : Sacheverell Sitwell

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Proceedings and Papers

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Total Pages : 392 pages
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Book Synopsis Proceedings and Papers by : Oxford Bibliographical Society

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Reading Roman Comedy

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139482645
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Book Synopsis Reading Roman Comedy by : Alison Sharrock

Download or read book Reading Roman Comedy written by Alison Sharrock and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-24 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many years the domain of specialists in early Latin, in complex metres, and in the reconstruction of texts, Roman comedy is now established in the mainstream of Classical literary criticism. Where most books stress the original performance as the primary location for the encountering of the plays, this book finds the locus of meaning and appreciation in the activity of a reader, albeit one whose manner of reading necessarily involves the imaginative reconstruction of performance. The texts are treated, and celebrated, as literary devices, with programmatic beginnings, middles, ends, and intertexts. All the extant plays of Plautus and Terence have at least a bit part in this book, which seeks to expose the authors' fabulous artificiality and artifice, while playing along with their differing but interrelated poses of generic humility.

The Prologue

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Publisher : Post Hill Press
ISBN 13 : 1642935549
Total Pages : 319 pages
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Book Synopsis The Prologue by : Alexander V. Mirtchev

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Prologue

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 13 pages
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Book Synopsis Prologue by : Samuel Johnson

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Philological Quarterly

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Prologue to Performance

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Total Pages : 38 pages
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Book Synopsis Prologue to Performance by : Jyutika T. Garud

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A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles

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Total Pages : 1700 pages
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Book Synopsis A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles by : James Augustus Henry Murray

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Of Sondry Folk

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Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292760175
Total Pages : 285 pages
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Book Synopsis Of Sondry Folk by : R. M. Lumiansky

Download or read book Of Sondry Folk written by R. M. Lumiansky and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two hundred years before Shakespeare observed that “all the world’s a stage,” another writer with a flair for drama realized the same fact. This writer was Geoffrey Chaucer. Chaucer, however, presented his dramatic efforts through the medium of short stories, and he is regularly referred to as one of the world’s great storytellers. Yet there are certain questions which arise time and again in the minds of literary scholars. Most of the tales in the Canterbury collection are excellent, but why did Chaucer include such obviously poor recitals as the dull “Melibeus” and the lengthy “Parson’s Tale”? Did he fail to recognize their lack of literary merit? Or were those of his stories which seem so dull to modern readers really popular in fourteenth-century England? Of Sondry Folk is Lumiansky’s answer to such questions. But it is more than that. It is the revelation of Chaucer as dramatic writer. Chaucer, says Lumiansky, did not intend primarily to tell a series of good tales. Instead, he chose tales which suited his purpose of dramatic exposition of character. And the characters, though drawn from many walks of life, are not stereotypes. Their tales not only disclose what the Pilgrims think of themselves but reveal these Pilgrims as they really are—dull, romantic, egotistical, pious, or lustful. Not all readers will agree with Lumiansky’s conclusions in this book. But his scholarship, his clear, uninvolved prose, and his wit and frankness make of it an excellent handbook for the student of the Canterbury Tales. Of Sondry Folk will increase the enjoyment and understanding of Chaucer’s art for any reader, lay or scholarly.

Soviet and East European Performance

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
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Lyrics from a Country Lane. A Miscellany of Verse

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Total Pages : 232 pages
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Book Synopsis Lyrics from a Country Lane. A Miscellany of Verse by : John Lawton Owen

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Prologue to a Farce

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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252091752
Total Pages : 355 pages
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Book Synopsis Prologue to a Farce by : Mark Lloyd

Download or read book Prologue to a Farce written by Mark Lloyd and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A popular Government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy or perhaps both.”--James Madison, 1822 Mark Lloyd has crafted a complex and powerful assessment of the relationship between communication and democracy in the United States. In Prologue to a Farce, he argues that citizens’ political capabilities depend on broad public access to media technologies, but that the U.S. communications environment has become unfairly dominated by corporate interests. Drawing on a wealth of historical sources, Lloyd demonstrates that despite the persistent hope that a new technology (from the telegraph to the Internet) will rise to serve the needs of the republic, none has solved the fundamental problems created by corporate domination. After examining failed alternatives to the strong publicly owned communications model, such as antitrust regulation, the public trustee rules of the Federal Communications Commission, and the underfunded public broadcasting service, Lloyd argues that we must re-create a modern version of the Founder’s communications environment, and offers concrete strategies aimed at empowering citizens.

Plautus in Performance

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134424019
Total Pages : 236 pages
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Book Synopsis Plautus in Performance by : Niall W. Slater

Download or read book Plautus in Performance written by Niall W. Slater and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plautus was Ancient Rome's greatest comic playwright, Shakespeare drew heavily on his plots, and his legacy is prevalent throughout modern drama. In this expanded edition of his successful book, one of America's foremost Classical scholars introduces performance criticism to the study of Plautus' ancient drama. In addition to the original detailed studies of six of the dramatists's plays, the methodology of performance criticism, the use of conventions, and the nature of comic heroism in Plautus, this edition includes new studies on: * the induction into the world of the play * the scripted imitation of improvisation * Plautus's comments on his previous work * the nature of 'tragicomedy'.

The Vakhtangov Sourcebook

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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1136979972
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Book Synopsis The Vakhtangov Sourcebook by : Andrei Malaev-Babel

Download or read book The Vakhtangov Sourcebook written by Andrei Malaev-Babel and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Yevgeny Vakhtangov pioneered Fantastic Realism through his innovative theatrical concepts. This book compiles new translations of his work on the art of theatre creating a primary source of original material on this theatrical master.

Making Shakespeare

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134363540
Total Pages : 203 pages
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Book Synopsis Making Shakespeare by : Tiffany Stern

Download or read book Making Shakespeare written by Tiffany Stern and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-07-31 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Shakespeare is a lively introduction to the major issues of the stage and print history, whilst also raising questions about what a Shakespeare play actually is. Tiffany Stern reveals how London, the theatre, the actors and the way in which the plays were written and printed all affect the 'Shakespeare' that we now read. Concentrating on the instability and fluidity of Shakespeare's texts, her book discusses what happened to a manuscript between its first composition, its performance on stage and its printing, and identifies traces of the production system in the plays we read. She argues that the versions of Shakespeare that have come down to us have inevitably been formed by the contexts from which they emerged; being shaped by, for example, the way actors received and responded to their lines, the props and music used in the theatre, or the continual revision of plays by the playhouses and printers. Allowing a fuller understanding of the texts we read and perform, Making Shakespeare is the perfect introduction to issues of stage and page. A refreshingly clear, accessible read, this book will allow even those with no expert knowledge to begin to contextualize Shakespeare's plays for themselves, in ways both old and new.

Shakespeare at War

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316517489
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Book Synopsis Shakespeare at War by : Amy Lidster

Download or read book Shakespeare at War written by Amy Lidster and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-17 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first material history of how Shakespeare has been 'recruited' in wartime.