The Stage Directions Guide to Musical Theater

The Stage Directions Guide to Musical Theater
Title The Stage Directions Guide to Musical Theater PDF eBook
Author Stephen Peithman
Publisher Drama
Pages 184
Release 2002
Genre Education
ISBN

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Drawing from the columns and archives of Stage Directions magazine and adding new material and introductions that put the information into perspective, the editors focus on five main areas of responsibility in musical theater.

Playing Shakespeare

Playing Shakespeare
Title Playing Shakespeare PDF eBook
Author John Barton
Publisher Anchor
Pages 286
Release 2010-11-10
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 0307773914

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Playing Shakespeare is the premier guide to understanding and appreciating the mastery of the world’s greatest playwright. Together with Royal Shakespeare Company actors–among them Patrick Stewart, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Ben Kingsley, and David Suchet–John Barton demonstrates how to adapt Elizabethan theater for the modern stage. The director begins by explicating Shakespeare’s verse and prose, speeches and soliloquies, and naturalistic and heightened language to discover the essence of his characters. In the second section, Barton and the actors explore nuance in Shakespearean theater, from evoking irony and ambiguity and striking the delicate balance of passion and profound intellectual thought, to finding new approaches to playing Shakespeare’s most controversial creation, Shylock, from The Merchant of Venice. A practical and essential guide, Playing Shakespeare will stand for years as the authoritative favorite among actors, scholars, teachers, and students.

The Shakespearean Stage Space

The Shakespearean Stage Space
Title The Shakespearean Stage Space PDF eBook
Author Mariko Ichikawa
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 237
Release 2013
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1107020352

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The Shakespearean Stage Space explores the original staging of plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries in Renaissance playhouses.

Will Power

Will Power
Title Will Power PDF eBook
Author John Basil
Publisher Hal Leonard Corporation
Pages 380
Release 2006
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 9781557836663

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Provides a guide for actors which outlines a three-week process for performing Shakespeare's plays.

The Stage Directions Guide to Working Back Stage

The Stage Directions Guide to Working Back Stage
Title The Stage Directions Guide to Working Back Stage PDF eBook
Author Stephen Peithman
Publisher Drama
Pages 180
Release 2000
Genre Theaters
ISBN

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The Stage Directions Guide to Working Back Stage provides an overview of what goes on behind the scenes as well as specific guidance for each essential area of back-stage operation.

A Dictionary of Stage Directions in English Drama 1580-1642

A Dictionary of Stage Directions in English Drama 1580-1642
Title A Dictionary of Stage Directions in English Drama 1580-1642 PDF eBook
Author Alan C. Dessen
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 306
Release 2001-03-15
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780521000291

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This dictionary, the first of its kind, defines and explains over 900 terms found in the stage directions of plays for the professional stage written by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The authors draw on a database of over 22,000 stage directions drawn from around 500 plays. Each entry defines a term, gives examples of how it is used, cites additional instances, and gives cross-references to other relevant entries. This will be an indispensable work of reference for scholars, historians, directors and actors.

This Is Shakespeare

This Is Shakespeare
Title This Is Shakespeare PDF eBook
Author Emma Smith
Publisher Vintage
Pages 263
Release 2020-03-31
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1524748552

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An electrifying new study that investigates the challenges of the Bard’s inconsistencies and flaws, and focuses on revealing—not resolving—the ambiguities of the plays and their changing topicality A genius and prophet whose timeless works encapsulate the human condition like no other. A writer who surpassed his contemporaries in vision, originality, and literary mastery. A man who wrote like an angel, putting it all so much better than anyone else. Is this Shakespeare? Well, sort of. But it doesn’t tell us the whole truth. So much of what we say about Shakespeare is either not true, or just not relevant. In This Is Shakespeare, Emma Smith—an intellectually, theatrically, and ethically exciting writer—takes us into a world of politicking and copycatting, as we watch Shakespeare emulating the blockbusters of Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Kyd (the Spielberg and Tarantino of their day), flirting with and skirting around the cutthroat issues of succession politics, religious upheaval, and technological change. Smith writes in strikingly modern ways about individual agency, privacy, politics, celebrity, and sex. Instead of offering the answers, the Shakespeare she reveals poses awkward questions, always inviting the reader to ponder ambiguities.