Shakespeare's Theatre: A Dictionary of His Stage Context

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A&C Black, 01.01.2004 - 570 Seiten
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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Academe
8
Actors Listed in the First Folio
18
Robert Armin
40
The Astrology of Robert Fludd
47
First Folio Portrait
53
A Staged Battle
63
A Boy Actor as Aspasia
78
A Renaissance PrintShop
117
Hawking
217
Samuel Rowleys Henry VIII
221
Hunting
236
An Inn
248
Will Kemp
260
Thomas Kyds Spanish Tragedy
265
London in 1593
276
Marlowes Dr Faustus
285

Stage Costumes
122
A Renaissance Lover
125
A Duel
158
Queen Elizabeth I in Quarto
166
Falstaff and Mistress Quickly
178
Foul Papers from Sir Thomas More
190
An Elizabethan Garden
199
The Second Globe 163644
205
The Second Globe 1647
206
A Plantagenet Genealogy
345
Bad and Good Quartos 3723
447
Richard Tarlton
451
Terence on a Renaissance Stage
454
Macbeth and Witches
499
The Wits
500
Bibliography
511
List of Headwords
553
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Hugh Macrae Richmond is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Berkeley, and Director of Education at the Shakespeare Globe Centre in the USA. He has written and edited numerous books on Shakespeare including Shakespeare's Political Plays and Shakespeare's Sexual Comedy. His Shakespeare Program at the University of California, Berkeley, has staged Shakespeare and related plays for thirty years.

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