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Renaissance Drama in Action

Author : Martin White
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134917813
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Renaissance Drama in Action written by Martin White and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renaissance Drama in Action is a fascinating exploration of Renaissance theatre practice and staging. Covering questions of contemporary playhouse design, verse and language, staging and rehearsal practices, and acting styles, Martin White relates the characteristics of Renaissance theatre to the issues involved in staging the plays today. This refreshingly accessible volume: * examines the history of the plays on the English stage from the seventeenth century to the present day * explores questions arising from reconstructions, with particular reference to the new Globe Theatre * includes interviews with, and draws on the work and experience of modern theatre practitioners including Harriet Walter, Matthew Warchus, Trevor Nunn, Stephen Jeffreys, Adrian Noble and Helen Mirren * includes discussions of familiar plays such as The Duchess of Malfi and 'Tis Pity She's A Whore, as well as many lesser known play-texts Renaissance Drama in Action offers undergraduates and A-level students an invaluable guide to the characteristics of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, and its relationship to contemporary theatre and staging.

The Renaissance Theatre

Author : Christopher Cairns
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429780745
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book The Renaissance Theatre written by Christopher Cairns and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999, this volume examines iconography, nature, gardens, staging, tradition and innovation in the Renaissance theatre, continuing the growing interest in relationships between image and performance as a fertile field for theatre research. Papers explored areas including The Tempest, Elizabeth Cary, Antonia Pulci and Shakespeare’s Italian nature.

Renaissance Drama

Author : William N. West
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780226158112
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (581 download)

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Download or read book Renaissance Drama written by William N. West and published by . This book was released on 2013-12-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renaissance Drama explores the rich variety of theatrical and performance traditions and practices in early modern Europe and intersecting cultures. Volume 41 features articles that extend the scope of our understanding of early modern playing, theatre history, and dramatic texts and interpretation, encouraging innovative theoretical and methodological approaches to these traditions, examining familiar works, and revisiting well-known texts from fresh perspectives.

Renaissance Fun

Author : Philip Steadman
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1787359158
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book Renaissance Fun written by Philip Steadman and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renaissance Fun is about the technology of Renaissance entertainments in stage machinery and theatrical special effects; in gardens and fountains; and in the automata and self-playing musical instruments that were installed in garden grottoes. How did the machines behind these shows work? How exactly were chariots filled with singers let down onto the stage? How were flaming dragons made to fly across the sky? How were seas created on stage? How did mechanical birds imitate real birdsong? What was ‘artificial music’, three centuries before Edison and the phonograph? How could pipe organs be driven and made to play themselves by waterpower alone? And who were the architects, engineers, and craftsmen who created these wonders? All these questions are answered. At the end of the book we visit the lost ‘garden of marvels’ at Pratolino with its many grottoes, automata and water jokes; and we attend the performance of Mercury and Mars in Parma in 1628, with its spectacular stage effects and its music by Claudio Monteverdi – one of the places where opera was born. Renaissance Fun is offered as an entertainment in itself. But behind the show is a more serious scholarly argument, centred on the enormous influence of two ancient writers on these subjects, Vitruvius and Hero. Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture were widely studied by Renaissance theatre designers. Hero of Alexandria wrote the Pneumatics, a collection of designs for surprising and entertaining devices that were the models for sixteenth and seventeenth century automata. A second book by Hero On Automata-Making – much less well known, then and now – describes two miniature theatres that presented plays without human intervention. One of these, it is argued, provided the model for the type of proscenium theatre introduced from the mid-sixteenth century, the generic design which is still built today. As the influence of Vitruvius waned, the influence of Hero grew.

Renaissance Drama in Action

Author : Martin White
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134917805
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Renaissance Drama in Action written by Martin White and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renaissance Drama in Action is a fascinating exploration of Renaissance theatre practice and staging. Covering questions of contemporary playhouse design, verse and language, staging and rehearsal practices, and acting styles, Martin White relates the characteristics of Renaissance theatre to the issues involved in staging the plays today. This refreshingly accessible volume: * examines the history of the plays on the English stage from the seventeenth century to the present day * explores questions arising from reconstructions, with particular reference to the new Globe Theatre * includes interviews with, and draws on the work and experience of modern theatre practitioners including Harriet Walter, Matthew Warchus, Trevor Nunn, Stephen Jeffreys, Adrian Noble and Helen Mirren * includes discussions of familiar plays such as The Duchess of Malfi and 'Tis Pity She's A Whore, as well as many lesser known play-texts Renaissance Drama in Action offers undergraduates and A-level students an invaluable guide to the characteristics of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, and its relationship to contemporary theatre and staging.

Theatre of the Book, 1480-1880

Author : Julie Stone Peters
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199262168
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (621 download)

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Download or read book Theatre of the Book, 1480-1880 written by Julie Stone Peters and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the impact of printing on the European theatre in the period 1480-1880 and shows that the printing press played a major part in the birth of modern theatre.

The Renaissance Theatre: Design, image and acting

Author : Christopher Cairns
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780075460060
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Renaissance Theatre: Design, image and acting written by Christopher Cairns and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Renaissance Drama by Women: Texts and Documents

Author : S.P. Cerasano
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134962053
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Renaissance Drama by Women: Texts and Documents written by S.P. Cerasano and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-11-22 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renaissance Drama By Women is a unique volume of plays and documents. For the first time, it demonstrates the wide range of theatrical activity in which women were involved during the Renaissance period. It includes full-length plays, a translated fragment by Queen Elizabeth I, a masque, and a substantial number of historical documents. With full and up-to-date accompanying critical material, this collection of texts is an exciting and invaluable resource for use in both the classroom and research. Special features introduced by the editors include: * introductory material to each play * modernized spellings * extensive notes and annotations * biographical essays on each playwright * a complete bibliography Methodically and authoritatively edited by S.P. Cerasano and Marion Wynne-Davies, Renaissance Drama by Women is a true breakthrough for the study of women's literature and performance.

The Renaissance Theatre

Author : Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367134303
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book The Renaissance Theatre written by Taylor & Francis Group and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1999, this book is a critical analysis of Renaissance theatre, including chapters on speaking theatres, performing theatre and redesigning Shakespeare.

Erotic Politics

Author : Susan Zimmerman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134919840
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Erotic Politics written by Susan Zimmerman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifying the stage as a primary site for erotic display, these essays take eroticism in Renaissance culture as a paradigm for issues of sexuality and identity in early modern culture. Contributors examine how the Renaissance stage functioned as a decoder for erotic experience, both reinforcing and subverting expected sexual behaviour. They argue that the dynamics of theatrical eroticism served to deconstruct gender definitions, leaving conventional categories of sexuality blurred, confused - or absent. In seeking to reposition the conventions and subversions of gender and desire in terms of one another, these essays open up an attractive and distinctive perspective in cultural debate.

100 Great Monologues from the Renaissance Theatre

Author : Jocelyn Beard
Publisher : Smith & Kraus
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book 100 Great Monologues from the Renaissance Theatre written by Jocelyn Beard and published by Smith & Kraus. This book was released on 1994 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected from the Renaissance period, these selections go from monologues for women, including The alchemist and The witch of Edmonton, to monologues for men, including Catiline and Such stuff as dreams are made of.

Theatrical Spaces and Dramatic Places

Author : Southeastern Theatre Conference (U.S.)
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 9780817308544
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Theatrical Spaces and Dramatic Places written by Southeastern Theatre Conference (U.S.) and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together experts in the field of Renaissance theatre architecture. It considers concepts and applications of theatrical space during the early modern period.

Renaissance Drama 35

Author : Mary Floyd-Wilson
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810123657
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Renaissance Drama 35 written by Mary Floyd-Wilson and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2006-06-22 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renaissance Drama, an annual and interdisciplinary publication, is devoted to drama and performance as a central feature of Renaissance culture. The essays in each volume explore traditional canons of drama, the significance of performance (broadly construed) to early modern culture, and the impact of new forms of interpretation on the study of Renaissance plays, theatre, and performance. This special issue of Renaissance Drama "Embodiment and Environment in Early Modern Drama and Performance" is guest-edited by Mary Floyd-Wilson and Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr. Anatomized, fragmented, and embarrassed, the body has long been fruitful ground for scholars of early modern literature and culture. The contributors suggest, however, that period conceptions of embodiment cannot be understood without attending to transactional relations between body and environment. The volume explores the environmentally situated nature of early modern psychology and physiology, both as depicted in dramatic texts and as a condition of theatrical performance. Individual essays shed new light on the ways that travel and climatic conditions were understood to shape and reshape class status, gender, ethnicity, national identity, and subjectivity; they focus on theatrical ecologies, identifying the playhouse as a "special environment" or its own "ecosystem," where performances have material, formative effects on the bodies of actors and audience members; and they consider transactions between theatrical, political, and cosmological environments. For the contributors to this volume, the early modern body is examined primarily through its engagements with and operations in specific environments that it both shapes and is shaped by. Embodiment, these essays show, is without borders.

English Renaissance Drama

Author : David M Bevington
Publisher : Humanities-Ebooks
ISBN 13 : 1847603041
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book English Renaissance Drama written by David M Bevington and published by Humanities-Ebooks. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Renaissance Theatre

Author : Ronald W. Vince
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Renaissance Theatre written by Ronald W. Vince and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1984-04-24 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vince introduces readers to the sources of information available to the theatre historian, and to some of the methods that have been used in the interpretation of that evidence. He provides an analytical survey of the principal written and artifactual evidence for the history of the Renaissance theatres of Italy, Spain, England, and France. The book includes a discussion of the various types of evidence available to the theatre historian, with special reference to those sources that have proved to be of central importance, and an evaluative sketch of some of the most significant scholarship. Wherever possible, the reader is directed to original documents and sources that reproduce primary evidence. Each chapter concludes with a reference bibliography.

Once

Author : Enda Walsh
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
ISBN 13 : 1559367687
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (593 download)

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Download or read book Once written by Enda Walsh and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A jewel box of a musical: small, delicate, brimming with emotion and charm."—Vogue "It may sound like heresy to fans of the 2006 film, but this bewitching stage adaptation arguably improves on the movie, expanding its emotional breadth and elevating it stylistically while remaining true to the original's raw fragility."?Hollywood Reporter Retaining the film's popular music and lyrics, acclaimed Irish playwright Enda Walsh adapts this charming tale of a complicated romance between an Irish street musician and a young Czech immigrant for the stage. A hit musical Off-Broadway, Once premiered on Broadway in spring 2012 to rave reviews. Enda Walsh is the author of five Edinburgh Festival Fringe First Award-winning plays, including Penelope, The Walworth Farce, and The New Electric Ballroom. He also co-wrote the film Hunger, which won the Camera d'Or award at the Cannes Film Festival. Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová are the stars and songwriters of the 2006 film Once, for which they won an Academy Award for Best Song. The two comprise the musical folk-rock duo The Swell Season, which is currently touring the United States. A documentary film of the duo, The Swell Season, was an official selection of the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival. Hansard is also a member of the Irish band The Frames and Irglová is a classically trained Czech pianist and vocalist.

Reinventing the Renaissance

Author : S. Brown
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137319402
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Reinventing the Renaissance written by S. Brown and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-05-12 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries has inspired interpretations in every genre and medium. This book offers perspectives on the ways in which practitioners have used Renaissance drama to address contemporary concerns and reach new audiences. It provides a resource for those interested in the creative reception of Renaissance drama.