Download or read book Some Notes on Shakespeare s Stage and Plays written by William Poel and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating exploration of Shakespeare's stagecraft and plays, the authors draw on historical research and theatrical experience to provide insights into the workings of the Elizabethan theatre, the role of the audience, and the development of Shakespeare's plays. This is an essential read for anyone interested in Shakespeare, theatre history, or early modern drama. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Some Notes on Shakespeare s Stage and Plays written by William Poel and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Some Notes on Shakespeare s Stage and Plays written by William Poel and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book What is Wrong with the Stage written by William Poel and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shakespeare on Theatre written by William Shakespeare and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Book). Shakespeare was a man of the theatre to his core, so it is no surprise that he repeatedly contemplated the nuts and bolts of his craft in his plays and poems. Shakespeare scholar Nick de Somogyi here draws together all the cherishable set pieces including "All the world's a stage," Hamlet's encounters with the Players, and Bottom's amateur theatricals along with many other oblique but no less revealing glances, and further insights into theatre practice by Shakespeare's contemporaries and rivals. De Somogyi's commentary takes us through the entire process of Shakespeare's theatrical production, from its casting and auditions, via rehearsals, costumes, and props, to its premiere and audience reception. Shakespeare on Theatre eavesdrops on the urgently whispered noises-off in the "tiring-house" and inhales the heady aroma of the Globe's first audiences.
Download or read book Staging in Shakespeare s Theatres written by Andrew Gurr and published by Oxford Shakespeare Topics. This book was released on 2000 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By bringing together evidence from different sources--documentary, archaeological, and the play-texts themselves--Staging Shakespeare's Theatres reconstructs the ways in which the plays were originally staged in the theaters of Shakespeare's own time, and shows how the physical possibilities and limitations of these theaters affected both the writing and the performances. The book explains the conditions under which the early playwrights and players worked, their preparation of the plays for the stage, and their rehearsal practices. It looks at the quality of evidence supplied by the surviving play-texts, and the extant to which audiences of the time differed from modern audiences; and it gives vivid examples of how Elizabethan actors made use of gestures, costumes, props, and the theater's specific design features. Stage movement is analyzed through a careful study of how exits and entrances worked on such stages. The final chapter offers a thorough examination of Hamlet as a text for performance, excitingly returning the play to its original staging at the Globe.
Download or read book The Shakespearean Stage Space written by Mariko Ichikawa and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shakespearean Stage Space explores the original staging of plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries in Renaissance playhouses.
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Stage written by Stanley Wells and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-30 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2002 Companion is designed for readers interested in past and present productions of Shakespeare's plays, both in and beyond Britain. The first six chapters describe aspects of the British performing tradition in chronological sequence, from the early staging of Shakespeare's own time, through to the present day. Each relates Shakespearean developments to broader cultural concerns and adopts an individual approach and focus, on textual adaptation, acting, stages, scenery or theatre management. These are followed by three explorations of acting: tragic and comic actors and women performers of Shakespeare roles. A section on international performance includes chapters on interculturalism, on touring companies and on political theatre, with separate accounts of the performing traditions of North America, Asia and Africa. Over forty pictures illustrate peformers and productions of Shakespeare from around the world. An amalgamated list of items for further reading completes the book.
Download or read book Henry VIII written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1786 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How to Survive Being in a Shakespeare Play written by Don Zolidis and published by Stage Partners. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some day it’s going to happen: You’re going to find yourself on stage, wearing tights, and saying things in iambic pentameter. Face it, you’re in a Shakespeare play, and that means it’s a pretty good bet you’re going to DIE. The Bard is out for blood, but this play is here to stop him! How could Romeo and Juliet survive? Julius Caesar? A nameless soldier in Henry the Fifth? What if King Lear had an emotional support llama and didn’t need to make terrible mistakes? Join us in discovering how a dozen of Shakespeare’s plays could’ve turned out differently! If only they listened… (If you loved 10 Ways to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse, read this guide immediately.) New VIRTUAL VERSION of the play now available. Comedy One-act. 30-60 minutes (Length of the play: This show is approximately one hour long. To cut it into a shorter one-act, simply remove one or more of the sections.) 10-50+ actors, gender flexible
Download or read book Shakespeare and the Stage written by Maurice Jonas and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Notes Upon Some of Shakespeare s Plays written by Frances Kemble and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-11-26 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the INTRODUCTORY - ON THE STAGE. THINGS dramatic and things theatrical are often confounded together in the minds of English people, who, being for the most part neither the one nor the other, speak and write of them as if they were identical, instead of, as they are, so dissimilar that they are nearly opposite. That which is dramatic in human nature is the passionate, emotional, humorous element, the simplest portion of our composition, after our mere instincts, to which it is closely allied, and this has no relation whatever, beyond its momentary excitement and gratification, to that which imitates it, and is its theatrical reproduction; the dramatic is the real, of which the theatrical is the false. Both nations and individuals in whom the dramatic temperament strongly preponderates are rather remarkable for a certain vivid simplicity of nature, which produces sincerity and vehemence of emotion and expression, but is entirely without the consciousness which is never absent from the theatrical element. Children are always dramatic, but only theatrical when they become aware that they are objects of admiring attention; in which case the assuming and dissembling capacity of acting develops itself comically and sadly enough in them. The Italians, nationally and individually, are dramatic; the French, on the contrary, theatrical; we English of the present day are neither the one nor the other, though our possession of the noblest dramatic literature in the world proves how deeply at one time our national character was imbued with elements which are now so latent as almost to be of doubtful existence; while, on the other hand, our American progeny are, as a nation, devoid of the dramatic element, and have a considerable infusion of that which is theatrical, delighting, like the Athenians of old, in processions, shows, speeches, oratory, demonstrations, celebrations, and declarations, and such displays of public and private sentiment as would be repugnant to English taste and feeling; to which theatrical tendency, and the morbid love of excitement which is akin to it, I attribute the fact that Americans, both nationally and individually, are capable of a certain sympathy with the French character, in which we are wanting. The combination of the power of representing passion and emotion with that of imagining or conceiving it-that is, of the theatrical talent with the dramatic temperament - is essential to make a good actor; their combination in the highest possible degree alone makes a great one. There is a specific comprehension of effect and the means of producing it, which, in some persons, is a distinct capacity, and this forms what actors call the study of their profession; and in this, which is the alloy necessary to make theatrical that which is only dramatic, lies the heart of their mystery and the snare of their craft in more ways than one: and this, the actor's business, goes sometimes absolutely against the dramatic temperament, which is nevertheless essential to it....
Download or read book Shakespeare and the Stage written by Maurice Jonas and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Shakespeare and the Stage: With a Complete List of Theatrical, Terms Used by Shakespeare in His, Plays and Poems, Arranged in Alphabetical Order,& Explanatory Notes The next development in the evolution of the drama is the representation of the liturgical play, written in Latin, gradually being superseded by the religious play written in the vernacular; the scenes depicted consisted chicfly of episodes in connection with the Birth of the Saviour, also of events narrating the Lives of the Saints, together with other legendary characters. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Costuming the Shakespearean Stage written by Robert I. Lublin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although scholars have long considered the material conditions surrounding the production of early modern drama, until now, no book-length examination has sought to explain what was worn on the period's stages and, more importantly, how articles of apparel were understood when seen by contemporary audiences. Robert Lublin's new study considers royal proclamations, religious writings, paintings, woodcuts, plays, historical accounts, sermons, and legal documents to investigate what Shakespearean actors actually wore in production and what cultural information those costumes conveyed. Four of the chapters of Costuming the Shakespearean Stage address 'categories of seeing': visually based semiotic systems according to which costumes constructed and conveyed information on the early modern stage. The four categories include gender, social station, nationality, and religion. The fifth chapter examines one play, Thomas Middleton's A Game at Chess, to show how costumes signified across the categories of seeing to establish a play's distinctive semiotics and visual aesthetic.
Download or read book What Is Wrong with the Stage written by William Poel and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from What Is Wrong With the Stage: Some Notes on the English Theatre From the Earliest Times to the Present Day This tendency was the inevitable outcome of the preceding period of religious dramas, an influence which had not entirely disappeared when James came to the throne. In fact, at the very time when the sentiment of drama was both wholesome and virile the outcry against it, from the Puritans, was the loudest. So far as the City Corporation's objection went it was due to dislike of interference from the Privy Council; that of the clergy was for economic reasons. And the outcry was always the same - complaints of The daily disorderly exercise of a number of players and playing-houses erected within the City, whereby the youths of the City were greatly corrupted and their manners infected with many evils and ungodly qualities by reason of the wanton and profane devices presented on the stage. Here suspicion is aroused by the vague nature of the charges made, as regards the ethical teaching of the plays, and the Corporation never attempted a definition of their accusations. Indeed, the root of the objection was obvious to those who lived within the city walls. The Corporation represented the business interests of the com munity, and merchants found the actors a sore hindrance to trade, with their afternoon performances given in the Inn Yards, after parading the narrow thoroughfares with drum and colours in order to collect an audi ence which would be sure to include many apprentices who were more interested in what they heard at the theatre than in what they were selling behind the counter. Again, London was a city of churches which were in close touch with the Livery Companies, so that the Corporation was bound to defend the interests of the clergy who complained that the theatres were better attended than the churches. Thus the Privy Council was often called upon, by the Corporation, to condemn the conduct of actors who wore the of the very noblemen who sat at the Queen's Council Table; these actors having been licensed to appear within the Corporation's jurisdiction whether the Corporation liked it or not. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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
