Shakespeare's Theatre : A Dictionary of His Stage Context PDF
by Professor Hugh Macrae Richmond
Part of the Continuum Shakespeare Dictionaries series
Description
Shakespeare's Theatre consolidates the author's forty years of experience in studying and staging Shakespeare's plays.
Under an alphabetical list of relevant terms, names and concepts, the book reviews current knowledge of the character and operation of theatres in Shakespeare's time, with an explanation of their origins.
Coverage includes the practices of Elizabethan actors and script writers: methods of characterization; gesture, blocking and choreography, including music, dance and fighting; actors' rhetorical interaction with audiences; and use of costumes, stage props, and make-up.
The author makes use of scripts and scholarship about original stagings of Shakespeare and suggests how those productions related to modern staging.
Much of this material has developed as a result of the recent increased interest in the significance of performance for interpreting Shakespeare, including the recovery of the archaeological evidence about the original Rose and Globe Theaters.
The book contains current bibliographies for each topic and consolidates these in an overall bibliography for Shakespeare and his theaters.
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:584 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:01/01/2003
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- ISBN:9781847146113
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:584 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:01/01/2003
- Category:
- ISBN:9781847146113
