The Purpose of Playing

The Purpose of Playing
Author: Louis Montrose
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 246
Release: 1996-06
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780226534831

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Examines the role of Elizabethan drama in the shape of cultural belief, values, and understanding of political authority.

Shakespeare: The Elizabethan Plays

Shakespeare: The Elizabethan Plays
Author: Susan Bassnett
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2016-01-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1349229962

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This book considers the plays by Shakespeare produced during the reign of Elizabeth and discusses some of the key issues of the day in their historical context. Using a comparative method that seeks to move away from the division of Shakespeare's works into categories of tragedies, comedies and histories, plays are compared and contrasted for the purpose of analysing wider contextual questions. This is a useful book for students and, with its companion volume - Shakespeare: The Jacobean Plays which examines the plays written after the accession of James I in 1601, it provides an overview of the work of a great dramatist in his own time.

Shakespeare's Theatres and the Effects of Performance

Shakespeare's Theatres and the Effects of Performance
Author: Farah Karim Cooper
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2015-01-05
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1408157055

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How did Elizabethan and Jacobean acting companies create their visual and aural effects? What materials were available to them and how did they influence staging and writing? What impact did the sensations of theatre have on early modern audiences? How did the construction of the playhouses contribute to technological innovations in the theatre? What effect might these innovations have had on the writing of plays? Shakespeare's Theatres and The Effects of Performance is a landmark collection of essays by leading international scholars addressing these and other questions to create a unique and comprehensive overview of the practicalities and realities of the theatre in the early modern period.

Playing Shakespeare

Playing Shakespeare
Author: John Barton
Publisher: Anchor
Total 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.

Shakespeare, the Elizabethan Plays

Shakespeare, the Elizabethan Plays
Author: Susan Bassnett
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 184
Release: 1993-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780312096632

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Shakespeare's Theatre

Shakespeare's Theatre
Author: Peter Thomson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2013-06-17
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1136113568

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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

Shakespeare and Lost Plays

Shakespeare and Lost Plays
Author: David McInnis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2021-03-25
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1108843263

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Explores Shakespeare's plays in their most immediate context: the hundreds of plays known to original audiences, but lost to us.

A Study Guide for "Elizabethan Drama"

A Study Guide for
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 38
Release: 2016
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1410345122

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A Study Guide for "Elizabethan Drama," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Literary Movements for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Literary Movements for Students for all of your research needs.

A History of the Elizabethan Theater

A History of the Elizabethan Theater
Author: Adam Woog
Publisher:
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2003
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN:

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Discusses the development of the English theater during the Elizabethan era, including the origins of Elizabethan theater and dramas, the influence of the queen and the church, and the impact of various playwrights and actors.

Aliens and Englishness in Elizabethan Drama

Aliens and Englishness in Elizabethan Drama
Author: Lloyd Edward Kermode
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-07-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781107404786

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Covering a wide variety of plays from 1550-1600, including Shakespeare's second tetralogy, this book explores moral, historical, and comic plays as contributions to Elizabethan debates on Anglo-foreign relations in England. The economic, social, religious, and political issues that arose from inter-British contact and Continental immigration into England are reinvented and rehearsed on the public stage. Kermode uncovers two broad 'alien stages' in the drama: distinctive but overlapping processes by which the alien was used to posit ideas and ideals of Englishness. Many studies of English national identity pit Englishness against the alien 'other' so that the native self and the alien settle into antithetical positions. In contrast, Aliens and Englishness reads a body of plays that represent Englishness as a state of ideological, invented superiority - paradoxically stable in its constant changeability, and brought into being by incorporating and eventually accepting, and even celebrating, rather than rejecting the alien.