Download or read book Jacobean Public Theatre written by Alexander Leggatt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacobean Public Theatre recovers for the modern reader the acting, production and performance values of the public theatre of Jacobean London. It relates this drama to the popular culutre of the day and concludes with a close study of four important plays, including King Lear, which emerge in an unexpected light as the products of popular tradition.
Download or read book Jacobean Public Theatre written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jacobean Private Theatre written by Keith Sturgess and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this scholarly and entertaining book, first published in 1987, the author tells the story of Jacobean private theatre. Most of the best plays written after 1610, including Shakespeare’s late plays such as The Tempest, were written for the new breed of private playhouses – small, roofed and designed for an aristocratic, literary audience, as opposed to the larger, open-air houses such as the Globe and the Red Bull, catering for a popular, ‘lowbrow’ audience. The author discusses the polarisation of taste and the effect it had on literary criticism and theatre history. This title will be of interest to students of English Literature, Drama and Performance.
Download or read book The Idea of the British Empire in the Jacobean Public Theatre 1603 c1614 written by Tristan Scott Marshall and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Jacobean and Caroline Stage written by Gerald Eades Bentley and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jacobean Drama written by David Farley-Hills and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-06 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonson, Marston, Chapman, Middleton, Heywood, Webster and Fletcher are playwrights of the Jacobean stage whose outstanding literary achievements have to some extent been obscured or misunderstood in Shakespeare's shadow. This timely reassessment, based on the accumulated scholarship of the decades since Una Ellis-Fermor's Jacobean Drama in 1936, comes when the opening of the Swan Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon gives the public, at last, the chance to see on the professional stage some of the neglected masterpieces of the richest period of our theatre.
Download or read book Staging The Renaissance written by David Scott Kastan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1992. In the English Renaissance theater, the text is structured by the multiple and complex collaborations that the theater demanded between patrons and players, playwrights and printers, playhouses and playgoers. The essays in this volume attempt to register these collaborations, emphasizing the ways in which the theater is at once responsive to and constitutive of the social formations of Renaissance England. At the same time, these essays recognize that their historical grounding is not unproblematic.
Download or read book Act Division in Elizabethan and Jacobean Plays 1583 1616 written by Wilfred Thomas Jewkes and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Theatre Community and Civic Engagement in Jacobean London written by Mark Bayer and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2011-10-15 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking to heart Thomas Heywood’s claim that plays “persuade men to humanity and good life, instruct them in civility and good manners, showing them the fruits of honesty, and the end of villainy,” Mark Bayer’s captivating new study argues that the early modern London theatre was an important community institution whose influence extended far beyond its economic, religious, educational, and entertainment contributions. Bayer concentrates not on the theatres where Shakespeare’s plays were performed but on two important amphitheatres, the Fortune and the Red Bull, that offer a more nuanced picture of the Jacobean playgoing industry. By looking at these playhouses, the plays they staged, their audiences, and the communities they served, he explores the local dimensions of playgoing. Focusing primarily on plays and theatres from 1599 to 1625, Bayer suggests that playhouses became intimately engaged with those living and working in their surrounding neighborhoods. They contributed to local commerce and charitable endeavors, offered a convivial gathering place where current social and political issues were sifted, and helped to define and articulate the shared values of their audiences. Bayer uses the concept of social capital, inherent in the connections formed among individuals in various communities, to construct a sociology of the theatre from below—from the particular communities it served—rather than from the broader perspectives imposed from above by church and state. By transacting social capital, whether progressive or hostile, the large public amphitheatres created new and unique groups that, over the course of millions of visits to the playhouses in the Jacobean era, contributed to a broad range of social practices integral to the daily lives of playgoers. In lively and convincing prose that illuminates the significant reciprocal relationships between different playhouses and their playgoers, Bayer shows that theatres could inform and benefit London society and the communities geographically closest to them.
Download or read book Jacobean Theatre written by Maynard Mack and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Jacobean Company and Its Playhouse written by Eva Griffith and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first history of the Queen's Servants, parallel players to Shakespeare's company, and their playhouse, The Red Bull.
Download or read book Playwright Space and Place in Early Modern Performance written by Tim Fitzpatrick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzing Elizabethan and Jacobean playtexts for their spatial implications, this innovative study discloses the extent to which the resources and constraints of public playhouse buildings affected the construction of the fictional worlds of early modern plays. The study argues that playwrights were writing with foresight, inscribing the constraints and resources of the stages into their texts. It goes further, to posit that Shakespeare and his playwright-contemporaries adhered to a set of generic conventions, rather than specific local company practices, about how space and place were to be related in performance: the playwrights constituted thus an overarching virtual 'company' producing playtexts that shared features across the acting companies and playhouses. By clarifying a sixteenth- to seventeenth-century conception of theatrical place, Tim Fitzpatrick adds a new layer of meaning to our understanding of the plays. His approach adds a new dimension to these particular documents which-though many of them are considered of great literary worth-were not originally generated for any other reason than to be performed within a specific performance context. The fact that the playwrights were aware of the features of this performance tradition makes their texts a potential mine of performance information, and casts light back on the texts themselves: if some of their meanings are 'spatial', these will have been missed by purely literary tools of analysis.
Download or read book Jacobean Drama written by David Farley-Hills and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1988 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Art Made Tongue tied by Authority written by Janet Clare and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of the "Companion Library" is to provide students of the Elizabethan and Jacobean drama with a fuller sense of its background and context. This book traces the development and the impact of dramatic censorship from its beginnings in the suppression of religious drama to the end of the Jacobean period. In fact it was not until 1968 that the practice of theatre censorship which became established in the reign of the first Elizabeth was finally abolished. Before judging what appears to be a play's structural imbalance, political equivocation or ambivalent ideology it is necessary to take into account the kinds of constraint applied by the state, whether through theatrical censor or otherwise. There is a tendency in studies in the politics of Renaissance drama either to dismiss censorship as lenient and posing no threat or to view it as consistently repressive and menacing. Neither view reflects the true nature of a system which under Elizabeth I and James I was dynamic and unstable. Fluctuations in the intensity of censorship and the issues deemed censorable occurred between and during the reigns of these monarchs. In such a public art as the theatre, dramatic censorship is inevitably linked with local circumstances at the time of performance. The approach of the book is historically specific and is based on the assumption that until we locate the text within a historical moment of production and reconstruct the precise preoccupations of the censor by way of the evidence from censored texts we cannot know how censorship impinged on the working playwright. The book details several isolated cases of censorship. The purpose of this study is primarily to re-situate and reappraise those plays which were victims of censorship because of their subject matter or ideology, boldness of language or iconography or which were censored because of a particular collusion of dramatic material and political event. The book also examines how the pressures of censorship shaped the artefacts and rhetorical strategies of plays in the repertoires of the Elizabethan and Jacobean theatres.
Download or read book Jacobean Theatre written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Jacobean Drama written by Una Mary Ellis-Fermor and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Elizabethan Jacobean Drama written by Blakemore G. Evans and published by New Amsterdam Books. This book was released on 1998-04-21 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this absorbing collection is to illuminate the world of the theatre by setting it squarely in its historical context. To that end, Professor Evans draws on the whole spectrum of Elizabethan-Jacobean writing, from official documents to diaries and letters. Part I, The Theatre and the World, deals, through contemporary writings, with the drama itself, the audiences and their responses, theatrical companies, acting and actors, and buildings and technical matters. Part II, The Worlds and the Theatre, illustrates how the problems of everyday life, complicated as they were by moral, religious, social, political, and economic issues, provided an ever-fruitful source of materials to the dramatists who practiced their craft during this extraordinarily creative period.
