Shakespeare's Two Playhouses
Title | Shakespeare's Two Playhouses PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Dustagheer |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 237 |
Release | 2017-08-03 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1107190169 |
Sarah Dustagheer offers the first in-depth, comparative analysis of the performance conditions of the Globe and the Blackfriars Theatres.
Shakespeare's Two Playhouses: Repertory and Theatre Space at the Globe and the Blackfriars
Title | Shakespeare's Two Playhouses: Repertory and Theatre Space at the Globe and the Blackfriars PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Dustagheer |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781108119887 |
Shakespeare's Two Playhouses
Title | Shakespeare's Two Playhouses PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Dustagheer |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 237 |
Release | 2017-08-03 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1108118283 |
In what ways did playwrights like Shakespeare respond to the two urban locations of the Globe and the Blackfriars? What was the effect of their different acoustic and visual experiences on actors and audiences? What did the labels 'public' for the Globe and 'private' for the Blackfriars, actually mean in practice? Sarah Dustagheer offers the first in-depth, comparative analysis of the performance conditions of the two sites. This engaging study examines how the social, urban, sensory and historical characteristics of these playhouses affected dramatists, audiences and actors. Each chapter provides new interpretations of seminal King's Men's works written as the company began to perform in both settings, including The Alchemist, The Tempest and Henry VIII. Presenting a rich and compelling account of the two early modern theatres, the book also suggests fresh insights into recent contemporary productions at Shakespeare's Globe, London and the new Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.
Moving Shakespeare Indoors
Title | Moving Shakespeare Indoors PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Gurr |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 307 |
Release | 2014-03-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 113986789X |
Shakespeare's company, the King's Men, played at the Globe, and also in an indoor theatre, the Blackfriars. The year 2014 witnessed the opening of the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, based on seventeenth-century designs of an indoor London theatre and built within the precincts of the current Globe on Bankside. This volume, edited by Andrew Gurr and Farah Karim-Cooper, asks what prompted the move to indoor theatres, and considers the effects that more intimate staging, lighting and music had on performance and repertory. It discusses what knowledge is required when attempting to build an archetype of such a theatre, and looks at the effects of the theatre on audience behaviour and reception. Exploring the ways in which indoor theatre shaped the writing of Shakespeare and his contemporaries in the late Jacobean and early Caroline periods, this book will find a substantial readership among scholars of Shakespeare and Jacobean theatre history.
Shakespeare's Globe Rebuilt
Title | Shakespeare's Globe Rebuilt PDF eBook |
Author | J. R. Mulryne |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 1997-06-12 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780521599887 |
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.
Playgoing in Shakespeare's London
Title | Playgoing in Shakespeare's London PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Gurr |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780521543224 |
This is a newly revised edition of Andrew Gurr's classic account of the people for whom Shakespeare wrote his plays. Gurr assembles evidence from the writings of the time to describe the physical, social and mental conditions of playgoing. For this edition, as well as revising and adding new material which has emerged since the second edition, Gurr develops new sections about points of special interest. Fifty new entries have been added to the list of playgoers and there are a dozen fresh quotations about the experience of playgoing.
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.