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Author : Robert Eustis Morsberger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Swordplay and the Elizabethan and Jacobean Stage written by Robert Eustis Morsberger and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Craig Turner
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809382156
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Methods and Practice of Elizabethan Swordplay written by Craig Turner and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2016-04-11 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring period drawings and prints of swordplay, this book examines and compares three Elizabethan fencing manuals written in English before 1600: Giacomo Di Grassi’s His True Arte of Defense (1594), Vincentio Saviolo’s His Practice in Two Bookes (1595), and George Silver’s Paradoxes of Defence and Bref Instructions upon My Paradoxes of Defence (1599). More than a technical manual on swordplay, this book explores the influence of a new form of violence introduced into Elizabethan culture by the invention of the rapier. The authors examine the rapier’s influence on the various social classes, the clash between the traditional English fencing masters and those embracing the new style, the growing concern with unregulated dueling, and the frequent references to rapier play in the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. As producer Joseph Papp notes in his foreword, this is a book that "makes a difference in performance."
Author : Hugh Macrae Richmond
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826477767
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (777 download)
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>
Author : Michael Kirkland
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313089051
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Stage Combat Resource Materials written by Michael Kirkland and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-08-30 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed to educate the reader about the evolution and development of arms, armor, and personal combat for the stage. It is the perfect guide for locating books, articles, and videos for those involved in the historical reenactment of duels and battles. It simultaneously offers historical context and points the reader toward useful and easily obtainable resources to inform their fights, costumes, and stage weaponry. This resource text is a must have for fight directors, teachers of stage combat, historical re-enactors, costumers, and weapons makers. The body of the work is divided up into five chapters and a series of appendices containing a compendium of useful information for fight directors and weapons makers. Chapter one surveys the evolution and development of arms, armor, and personal combat. Chapters two, three, and four consist of annotations of books, articles, and videos respectively. Chapter five offers concluding remarks on the project.
Author : David Stevens
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105175219
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Elizabethan Theatre History: An Annotated Bibliography of Scholarship, 1664-1979 written by David Stevens and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Formerly published as "English Renaissance Theatre History: A Reference Guide" by G. K. Hall in 1982, this annotated bibliography of scholarship in the field of Elizabethan theatre history has been out of print for almost 30 years. Most academic libraries have a copy in their reference departments, and this classic is now available for the personal libraries of students and scholars in the field. It has never been easier to review the academic literature in such areas as reconstructions of Shakespeare's Globe Playhouse, and other public and private playhouses of Shakespeare's London; the court masques; Inigo Jones; Richard Burbage and other actors of the time; the Lord Mayor's Shows; Puritan opposition to the stage; and other such topics. The terminal date of 1979 reflects the date of original production, but with this tool it is a simple matter for the scholar to update his or her review of the literature. The comprehensive Index is invaluable, and Stevens also provides a preface and introduction.
Author : Andrew Gurr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521422406
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (224 download)
Download or read book The Shakespearean Stage, 1574-1642 written by Andrew Gurr and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-01-23 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only authoritative, one-volume book to describe all the main features of the original staging of Shakespearean drama.
Author : John C. Meagher
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838639931
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (399 download)
Download or read book Pursuing Shakespeare's Dramaturgy written by John C. Meagher and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Shakespeare studied in this book is Shakespeare the playmaker, engaged in every step of the process from the first draft of the text to the performance before a live audience. This, the author contends, is the Shakespeare that is most essential, the Shakespeare who should be known as the foundation underlying any other treatment of the plays, and the Shakespeare most exciting and rewarding to pursue."--Jacket.
Author : Michael Hattaway
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135032661
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Elizabethan Popular Theatre written by Michael Hattaway and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabethan Popular Theatre surveys the Golden Age of English popular theatre: the 1590s, the age of Marlowe and the young Shakespeare. The book describes the staging practices, performance conditions and acting techniques of the period, focusing on five popular dramas: The Spanish Tragedy, Mucedorus, Edward II, Doctor Faustus and Titus Andronicus, as well as providing a comprehensive history of a variety of contemporary playhouse stages, performances, and players.
Author : Charles Edelman
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719035074
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Brawl Ridiculous written by Charles Edelman and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paying close attention to the performance conditions in the Elizabethan theatre, Edelman (English, Edith Cowan U., Western Australia) explores how Shakespeare's many battle scenes, duels, and single combats would have been presented by his own company. He draws on the whole range of plays to argue that such scenes reinforce poetic and dramatic themes, rather than merely provide a popular spectacle for the crowd. Distributed in the US by St. Martin's Press. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : J. D. Martinez
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Swords of Shakespeare written by J. D. Martinez and published by McFarland. This book was released on 1996 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the principal duels in Shakespeare's plays are outlined and explained. The logic underlying each of the violent conflicts is discussed, together with textual references, to place them within the contxt of the play. Sample choreography is offered.
Author : Michele Marrapodi
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719066665
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (666 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare, Italy, and Intertextuality written by Michele Marrapodi and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly available in paperback, this collection of essays, written by distinguished international scholars, focuses on the structural influence of Italian literature, culture and society at large on Shakespeare's dramatic canon. Exploring recent methodological trends coming from Anglo-American new historicism and cultural materialism and innovative analyses of intertextuality, the volume's four thematic sections deal with 'Theory and practice', 'Culture and tradition', 'Text and ideology' and 'Stage and spectacle'.In their own views and critical perspectives, the individual chapters throw fresh light on the dramatist's pliable technique of dramatic construction and break new ground in the field of influence studies and intertextuality as a whole.A rich bibliography of secondary literature and a detailed index round off the volume.
Author : Peter Thomson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136113568
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)
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 221 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
Author : Nicholas de Somogyi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351900706
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare’s Theatre of War written by Nicholas de Somogyi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period between 1585 (when Elizabeth formally committed her military support to the Dutch wars against Spain) and 1604 (when James at last brought it to an end) was one in which English life was preoccupied by the menace and actuality of war. The same period spans English drama’s coming of age, from Tamburlaine to Hamlet. In this thought-provoking book, Nick de Somogyi draws on a wide range of contemporary military literature (news-letters and war-treatises, maps and manuals), to demonstrate how deeply wartime experience influenced the production and reception of Elizabethan theatre. In a series of vivid parallels, the roles of soldier and actor, the setting of battlefield and stage, and the context of playhouse and muster are shown to have been rooted in the common experience of war. The local armoury served as a props department; the stage as a military lecture-hall. News from the front line has always been shrouded in the fog of war. Shakespeare’s Rumour is here seen as kindred to such equally dubious messengers as his Armado, Falstaff or Pistol; soldiers have always told tall tales, military ghost-stories that are here shown to have seeped into such narratives as The Spanish Tragedy and Henry V. This book concludes with a sustained account of Hamlet, a play which both dramatises the Elizabethan context of war-fever, and embodies in its three variant texts the war and peace that shaped its production. By affording scrutiny to each of its title’s components, Shakespeare’s Theatre of War provides a compelling argument for reassessing the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries within the enduring context of the military culture and wartime experience of his age.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192831415
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (314 download)
Download or read book Henry VI. written by William Shakespeare and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of the precursor to Richard III offers a fresh interpretation of the relationship between the two earliest texts--The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York (octavo, 1595) and the First Folio Henry VI Part Three (1623)--arguing that the former is a memorially reported and original version of the play later revised for the Folio. The two therefore represent Shakespeare's early and revised conceptions of the play. Unlike all previous editions, the text here is based rigorously on the Folio, with a re-examination of the dates of composition, memorial reporting, and revision. It includes a full introduction, appendices, and commentary.
Author : Eero Laine
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000429059
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Sports Plays written by Eero Laine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-19 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sports Plays is a volume about sports in the theatre and what it means to stage sports. The chapters in this volume examine sports plays through a range of critical and theoretical approaches that highlight central concerns and questions both for sports and for theatre. The plays cut across boundaries and genres, from Broadway-style musicals to dramas to experimental and developmental work. The chapters examine and trouble the conventions of staging sports as they open possibilities for considering larger social and cultural issues and debates. This broad range of perspectives make the volume a compelling resource for students and scholars of sport, theatre, and performance studies whose interests span feminism, sexuality, politics, and race.
Author : Blakemore G. Evans
Publisher : New Amsterdam Books
ISBN 13 : 1461710790
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (617 download)
Download or read book Elizabethan Jacobean Drama written by Blakemore G. Evans and published by New Amsterdam Books. This book was released on 1998-04-21 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Andrew Villalon
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047442830
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book The Hundred Years War (Part II) written by Andrew Villalon and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-08-31 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a fresh look at the Hundred Years War by gathering the latest scholarship on several aspects of the conflict that have not been amply studied before and several that have become “gospel” by numerous scholarly treatments. The collection focuses on the following subjects: (1) the Hundred Years War as a wide-ranging struggle that effected many European regions, (2) the battle of Agincourt and its political and emotional aftermath, (3) the Iberian theater of war that sprang from the main conflict, (4) the impact of the crossbow and longbow on the great battles of the conflict, (5) great leaders of the war, and (6) economic, literary, and psychological aspects of the conflict. Contributors are: William P. Caferro, Megan Cassidy Welch, Kelly DeVries, Donald J. Kagay, Ilana Krug, Russell Mitchell, Steven Muhlberger, Clifford J. Rogers, L. B. Ross, Dana Sample, Wendy Turner, Richard Vernier, L. J. Andrew Villalon and David Whetham. Winner of the 2014 Verbruggen Prize of De Re Militari (the Society for the Study of Medieval Military History) given annually for the best book on medieval military history.
