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The Quest for Shakespeare's Globe

Author : John Orrell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521154888
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (548 download)

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Download or read book The Quest for Shakespeare's Globe written by John Orrell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the size, the shape and the architectural nature of the Globe playhouse of Shakespeare's time, the most important theatre in English history. The design of the second Globe, and by extension the first, has been a subject of keen debate for many years, fostered by recurrent attempts to reconstruct the playhouse, both in London and Detroit. Professor Orrell here offers fresh ways of looking at some well-known documents and newer evidence. By using detailed diagrams and seventeenth-century panoramas, the author is able to establish the accuracy of Hollar's famous 'Long View' of London, and by reconstructing his methods arrives at an exact measurement of the diameter of the second Globe. These findings document many advances in our hard knowledge of the theatre buildings of Shakespeare's time, to the point where reconstructions may be undertaken with confidence.

The Quest of Shakespeare's Globe

Author : John Orrell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Quest of Shakespeare's Globe written by John Orrell and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shakespeare's Globe Rebuilt

Author : J. R. Mulryne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521599887
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Globe Rebuilt written by J. R. Mulryne and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-06-12 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rebuilding of the Globe theatre (1599-1613) on London's Bankside, a few yards from the site of the playhouse in which many of Shakespeare's plays were first performed, must rank as one of the most imaginative enterprises of recent decades. It has aroused intense interest among scholars and the general public worldwide. This book offers a fully illustrated account of the research that has gone into the Globe reconstruction, drawing on the work of leading scholars, theatre people and craftsmen to provide an authoritative view of the twenty years of research and the hundreds of practical decisions entailed. Documents of the period are explored afresh; the techniques of timber-framed building and the decorative practices of Elizabethan craftsmen explained; and all of this reconciled with the requirements of the actors and restrictions of modern architectural design. The result is a book that will fascinate scholarly readers and laymen alike.

Worlds Elsewhere

Author : Andrew Dickson
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 080509735X
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Worlds Elsewhere written by Andrew Dickson and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book about how Shakespeare became fascinated with the world, and how the world became fascinated with Shakespeare Ranging ambitiously across four continents and four hundred years, Worlds Elsewhere is an eye-opening account of how Shakespeare went global. Seizing inspiration from the playwright’s own fascination with travel, foreignness, and distant worlds—worlds Shakespeare never himself explored—Andrew Dickson takes us on an extraordinary journey: from Hamlet performed by English actors tramping through the Baltic states in the early sixteen hundreds to the skyscrapers of twenty-first-century Beijing and Shanghai, where “Shashibiya” survived Mao’s Cultural Revolution to become a revered Chinese author. En route, Dickson traces Nazi Germany’s strange love affair with, and attempted nationalization of, the Bard, and delves deep into the history of Bollywood, where Shakespearean stories helped give birth to Indian cinema. In Johannesburg, we discover how Shakespeare was enlisted in the fight to end apartheid. In nineteenth-century California, we encounter shoestring performances of Richard III and Othello in the dusty mining camps and saloon bars of the Gold Rush. No other writer’s work has been performed, translated, adapted, and altered in such a remarkable variety of cultures and languages. Both a cultural history and a literary travelogue, Worlds Elsewhere is an attempt to understand how Shakespeare has become the international phenomenon he is—and why.

Shakespeare's Theatre

Author : Hugh Macrae Richmond
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826477767
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (777 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Theatre written by Hugh Macrae Richmond and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under an alphabetical list of relevant terms, names and concepts, the book reviews current knowledge of the character and operation of theatres in Shakespeare's time, with an explanation of their origins>

Shakespeare's Theatre: A History

Author : Richard Dutton
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405115130
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Theatre: A History written by Richard Dutton and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare’s Theatre: A History examines the theatre spaces used by William Shakespeare, and explores these spaces in relation to the social and political framework of the Elizabethan era. The text journeys from the performing spaces of the provincial inns, guild halls and houses of the gentry of the Bard’s early career, to the purpose-built outdoor playhouses of London, including the Globe, the Theatre, and the Curtain, and the royal courts of Elizabeth and James I. The author also discusses the players for whom Shakespeare wrote, and the positioning—or dispositioning—of audience members in relation to the stage. Widely and deeply researched, this fascinating volume is the first to draw on the most recent archaeological work on the remains of the Rose and the Globe, as well as continuing publications from the Records of Early English Drama project. The book also explores the contentious view that the ‘plot’ of The Seven Deadly Sins (part II), provides unprecedented insight into the working practices of Shakespeare’s company and includes a complete and modernized version of the ‘plot’. Throughout, the author relates the practicalities of early modern playing to the evolving systems of aristocratic patronage and royal licensing within which they developed Insightful and engaging, Shakespeare’s Theatre is ideal reading for undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars of literature and theatre studies.

Shakespeare's Theatre

Author : Peter Thomson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136113649
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Theatre written by Peter Thomson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews of the First Edition `...valuable and enjoyable reading for all studying Shakespeare's plays.' Following in the patternestablished by John Russell Brown for the excellent series (Theatre and Production Studies), he provides first an account of Shakespeare's company, then a study of three individual plays Twelfth Night, Hamlet and Macbeth as performed by the company. Peter Thomson writes in a crisp, sharp, enlivening style.' TLS '`...the best analysis yet of Elizabethan acting practices, excavated form the texts themselves rather than reconstructed on basis of one monolithic theory, and an essay on Hamlet that is a model of Critical intelligence and theatrical invention.' Yearbook of English Studies `Synthesizes the important facts and summarizes projects with a vigorous prose style, and expertly applies his experience in both practical drama and academic teaching to his discussion.' Review of English Studies

Staging Shakespeare at the New Globe

Author : P. Kiernan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230380158
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Staging Shakespeare at the New Globe written by P. Kiernan and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-05-19 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What have we learned from the first experiments performed at the reconstructed Globe on Bankside? What light have recent productions shed on the way Shakespeare intended his plays to be seen? Written by the Leverhulme Fellow appointed to study and record actor use of this new-old playhouse, here is the first analytical account of the discoveries that have been made in its important first years, in workshops, rehearsals and performances. It shows how actors, directors and playgoers have responded to the demands of 'historical' constraints (and unexpected freedoms) to provide valuable new insights into the dynamics of Elizabethan theatre.

The Quest for Cardenio

Author : David Carnegie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199641811
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book The Quest for Cardenio written by David Carnegie and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together leading scholars, critics, and theatre practitioners, this collection of essays is devoted to 'The History of Cardenio', a play based on Don Quixote and said to have been written by Shakespeare and the young man who was taking his place, John Fletcher.

The Routledge Guide to William Shakespeare

Author : Robert Shaughnessy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136855033
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Guide to William Shakespeare written by Robert Shaughnessy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demystifying and contextualising Shakespeare for the twenty-first century, this book offers both an introduction to the subject for beginners as well as an invaluable resource for more experienced Shakespeareans. In this friendly, structured guide, Robert Shaughnessy: introduces Shakespeare’s life and works in context, providing crucial historical background looks at each of Shakespeare’s plays in turn, considering issues of historical context, contemporary criticism and performance history provides detailed discussion of twentieth-century Shakespearean criticism, exploring the theories, debates and discoveries that shape our understanding of Shakespeare today looks at contemporary performances of Shakespeare on stage and screen provides further critical reading by play outlines detailed chronologies of Shakespeare’s life and works and also of twentieth-century criticism The companion website at www.routledge.com/textbooks/shaughnessy contains student-focused materials and resources, including an interactive timeline and annotated weblinks.

Playgoing in Shakespeare's London

Author : Andrew Gurr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521574495
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Playgoing in Shakespeare's London written by Andrew Gurr and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-09-19 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new edition of Andrew Gurr's classic account of the people for whom Shakespeare wrote his plays. Gurr assembles all the evidence from the writings of the time to describe the physical structure of the different types of playhouse, the services provided in the auditorium, the cost of a ticket and a cushion, the size of the crowds, the smells, the pickpockets, and the collective feelings generated by the plays. Since 1987 there have been many new discoveries about Shakespeare's theatres. Gurr introduces fresh evidence about the experience of attending a play in Shakespeare's time, adds more than thirty new entries to his account of the early playgoers and provides a select bibliography.

Acting from Shakespeare's First Folio

Author : Don Weingust
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135864101
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Acting from Shakespeare's First Folio written by Don Weingust and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: æOriginalÆ Shakespearean theatrical architecture, texts and performance methodologies have become subjects of great popular, professional and academic theatrical interest. Acting from Shakespeare's First Folio: Theory, Text & Performance examines a.

Shakespeare's Professional Career

Author : Peter Thomson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521666411
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (664 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Professional Career written by Peter Thomson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-06-28 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes Shakespeare at work in the context of Elizabethan and Jacobean social and professional life.

The Text, the Play, and the Globe

Author : Joseph Candido
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611478227
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book The Text, the Play, and the Globe written by Joseph Candido and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to honor the scholarly legacy of Charles R. Forker with a series of essays that address the problem of literary influence in original ways and from a variety of perspectives. The emphasis throughout is on the sort of careful, exhaustive, evidence-based scholarship to which Forker dedicated his entire professional life. Although wide-ranging and various by design, the essays in this book never lose sight of three discrete yet overlapping areas of literary inquiry that create a unity of perspective amid the diversity of approaches: 1) the formation of play texts, textual analysis, and editorial practice; 2) performance history and the material playing conditions from Shakespeare’s time to the present, including film as well as stage representations; and 3) the world, both cultural and literary, in which Shakespeare and his contemporaries worked and to which they bequeathed an artistic legacy that continues to be re-interpreted and re-defined by a whole new set of cultural and literary pressures. Eschewing any single, predetermined ideological perspective, the essays in this book call our attention to how the simplest questions or observations can open up provocative and unexpected scholarly vistas. In so doing, they invite us into a subtly re-configured world of literary influence that draws us into new, often unexpected, ways of seeing and understanding the familiar.

The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare

Author : Michael Dobson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191058157
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare written by Michael Dobson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare is the most comprehensive reference work available on Shakespeare's life, times, works, and his 400-year global legacy. In addition to the authoritative A-Z entries, it includes nearly 100 illustrations, a chronology, a guide to further reading, a thematic contents list, and special feature entries on each of Shakespeare's works. Tying in with the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, this much-loved Companion has been revised and updated, reflecting developments and discoveries made in recent years and to cover the performance, interpretation, and the influence of Shakespeare's works up to the present day. First published in 2001, the online edition was revised in 2011, with updates to over 200 entries plus 16 new entries. These online updates appear in print for the first time in this second edition, along with a further 35,000 new and revised words. These include more than 80 new entries, ranging from important performers, directors, and scholars (such as Lucy Bailey, Samuel West, and Alfredo Michel Modenessi), to topics as diverse as Shakespeare in the digital age and the ubiquity of plants in Shakespeare's works, to the interpretation of Shakespeare globally, from Finland to Iraq. To make information on Shakespeare's major works easier to find, the feature entries have been grouped and placed in a centre section (fully cross-referenced from the A-Z). The thematic listing of entries - described in the press as 'an invaluable panorama of the contents' - has been updated to include all of the new entries. This edition contains a preface written by much-lauded Shakespearian actor Simon Russell Beale. Full of both entertaining trivia and scholarly detail, this authoritative Companion will delight the browser and reward students, academics, as well as anyone wanting to know more about Shakespeare.

The Shakespeare North Playhouse

Author : Tim Keenan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040019609
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Shakespeare North Playhouse written by Tim Keenan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-04-26 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection celebrates the opening of the Shakespeare North Playhouse (SNP). After discussion of its genesis and development by four people pivotal to its progress at different stages of the project, this book explores different aspects of the SNP’s purpose and functions across three broad categories: buildings and spaces, practices and performance, and community arts and education. Various chapters offer answers to fundamental questions about replica theatres, including: Why do we build them? What do they do? How do we use them? In the course of these discussions, the purposes, potential, and programming of the SNP are discussed in relation to other Globe-type replicas in the UK and beyond. Contributors to this collection analyse key academic and practice-based concerns within their fields of expertise connected to the use (and misuse) of replica theatres to suggest the ways in which they can be used to drive research and practice in contemporary Shakespearean performance, connect with young people, and serve local communities. This book will appeal to academics, students, and practitioners interested in historical and contemporary approaches to Shakespeare in the fields covered. It should also appeal to general readers with an interest in the topics, particularly in Merseyside and the North-West region.

Cognition in the Globe

Author : E. Tribble
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780230110854
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Cognition in the Globe written by E. Tribble and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early modern playing companies performed up to six different plays a week and mounted new plays frequently. This book seeks to answer a seemingly simple question: how did they do it? Drawing upon work in philosophy and the cognitive sciences, it proposes that the cognitive work of theatre is distributed across body, brain, and world.