Shakespeare's Lost Playhouse
Title | Shakespeare's Lost Playhouse PDF eBook |
Author | Laurie Johnson |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 363 |
Release | 2017-09-14 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1351578820 |
The playhouse at Newington Butts has long remained on the fringes of histories of Shakespeare’s career and of the golden age of the theatre with which his name is associated. A mile outside London, and relatively disused by the time Shakespeare began his career in the theatre, this playhouse has been easy to forget. Yet for eleven days in June, 1594, it was home to the two companies that would come to dominate the London theatres. Thanks to the ledgers of theatre entrepreneur, Philip Henslowe, we have a record of this short venture. Shakespeare's Lost Playhouse is an exploration of a brief moment in time when the focus of the theatrical world in England was on this small playhouse. To write this history, Laurie Johnson draws on archival studies, archaeology, environmental studies, geography, social, political, and cultural studies as well as methods developed within literary and theatre history to expand the scope of our understanding of the theatres, the rise of the playing business, and the formations of the playing companies.
Shakespeare's Lost Playhouse
Title | Shakespeare's Lost Playhouse PDF eBook |
Author | Lawrence Johnson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Theater |
ISBN | 9781138296336 |
The playhouse at Newington Butts has long remained on the fringes of histories of Shakespeare's career and of the golden age of the theatre with which his name is associated. Yet for eleven days in June, 1594, it was home to the two companies that would come to dominate the London theatres.
Shakespeare and Lost Plays
Title | Shakespeare and Lost Plays PDF eBook |
Author | David McInnis |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 239 |
Release | 2021-03-25 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1108843263 |
Explores Shakespeare's plays in their most immediate context: the hundreds of plays known to original audiences, but lost to us.
Shakespeare's Lost Play
Title | Shakespeare's Lost Play PDF eBook |
Author | Gregory Doran |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9781848422087 |
Gregory Doran's account of his quest to re-discover Cardenio, the lost play written by Shakespeare and John Fletcher. A thrilling act of literary detection that takes him from the Bodleian Library in Oxford, via Cervantes' Spain to the stage of the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford. Fully illustrated throughout, Shakespeare's Lost Play tells a fascinating story, which, like the play itself, will engross Shakespeare buffs and theatregoers alike. Doran's much-praised production of Cardenio for the Royal Shakespeare Company marked the culmination of years spent searching for a famously 'lost' play co-authored by William Shakespeare. In this book, Doran takes us with him on his quest to unearth every extant clue and then into the rehearsal room as he pieces together a play unseen since its first performance in 1613. The result, as the Guardian attested, is 'an extraordinary and theatrically powerful piece, one that should both please audiences and keep academic scholars in work for years'.
Double Falsehood
Title | Double Falsehood PDF eBook |
Author | William Shakespeare |
Publisher | |
Pages | 108 |
Release | 1920 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Revisiting Shakespeare’s Lost Play
Title | Revisiting Shakespeare’s Lost Play PDF eBook |
Author | Deborah C. Payne |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 147 |
Release | 2017-02-02 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3319465147 |
This collection of essays centres on Double Falsehood, Lewis Theobald’s 1727 adaptation of the “lost” play of Cardenio, possibly co-authored by John Fletcher and William Shakespeare. In a departure from most scholarship to date, the contributors fold Double Falsehood back into the milieu for which it was created rather than searching for traces of Shakespeare in the text. Robert D. Hume’s knowledge of theatre history permits a fresh take on the forgery question as well as the Shakespeare authorship controversy. Diana Solomon’s understanding of eighteenth-century rape culture and Jean I. Marsden’s command of contemporary adaptation practices both emphasise the play’s immediate social and theatrical contexts. And, finally, Deborah C. Payne’s familiarity with the eighteenth-century stage allows for a reconsideration of Double Falsehood as integral to a debate between Theobald, Alexander Pope, and John Gay over the future of the English drama.
The Book of Will
Title | The Book of Will PDF eBook |
Author | Lauren Gunderson |
Publisher | Dramatists Play Service, Inc. |
Pages | 95 |
Release | 2018-06-18 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 0822237725 |
Without William Shakespeare, we wouldn’t have literary masterpieces like Romeo and Juliet. But without Henry Condell and John Heminges, we would have lost half of Shakespeare’s plays forever! After the death of their friend and mentor, the two actors are determined to compile the First Folio and preserve the words that shaped their lives. They’ll just have to borrow, beg, and band together to get it done. Amidst the noise and color of Elizabethan London, THE BOOK OF WILL finds an unforgettable true story of love, loss, and laughter, and sheds new light on a man you may think you know.