First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Recent performances of early modern plays are analysed in essays by practitioners and academics, featuring critical, pedagogical and practical approaches.
The Shakespearean Ideal: Shakespeare Production and the Modern Theatre in Britain
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 ...
This book argues that recapturing a positive account of the skills and expertise of the early modern players will result in a more capacious understanding of the nature of theatricality in the period.
A study into the way in which modern dramatic printed texts relate to their performance.
The essays in this volume investigate English, Italian, Spanish, German, Czech, and Bengali early modern theater, placing Shakespeare and his contemporaries in the theatrical contexts of western and central Europe, as well as the Indian sub ...
An international team of scholars examines the theatrical world in which Shakespeare worked, tracing the social, political, and patronage pressures under which actors operated.
1592), perhaps in imitation of commercial plays, similarly does not begin with the Prologue, but with the ghost of the clown Will Sommers – who remains onstage throughout as chorus.) Even its opening movement has an overture, in fact, ...
According to the preacher Thomas Playfere in a sermon preached in 1595, "the whole theater of heauen and earth wept" as Jesus ... 11 "Dr Taylor's history", quoted in J. Alan B. Somerset, Records of Early English Drama: Shropshire, ...
In Much Ado About Nothing, Benedict's tendency to dress as a German from the waist downward and a Spaniard from the hip upward marks a mental imbalance caused by being in love. Claudio realizes this to be the cause of his infirmity and ...