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Author: John Mills
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Size: 69.55 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 1985-09-20
Category: Literary Criticism
Language: en
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Download PDF Hamlet On Stage eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. John Mills spotlights the various ways in which the role of Hamlet has been performed over almost four centuries. He launches this work with the first Hamlet portrayal, that of Richard Burbage, and then, in chronological order, describes and analyzes the Hamlets of the other actors who make up the great tradition of English-language Shakespeare acting. Mills devotes an entire chapter to each actor, focusing on acting style, text interpretation, theatrical and critical influences, popular and critical responses, and more. He offers a scene-by-scene account of the central figure's performance, with special emphasis on business and line-readings.

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Book Detail:
Author: Kenneth Graham
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228000076
Size: 49.93 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2019-12-19
Category: Literary Criticism
Language: en
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Download PDF Shakespeare On Stage And Off eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Today, debates about the cultural role of the humanities and the arts are roiling. Responding to renewed calls to reassess the prominence of canonical writers, Shakespeare On Stage and Off introduces new perspectives on why and how William Shakespeare still matters. Lively and accessible, the book considers what it means to play, work, and live with Shakespeare in the twenty-first century. Contributors - including Antoni Cimolino, artistic director of the Stratford Festival - engage with contemporary stagings of the plays, from a Trump-like Julius Caesar in New York City to a black Iago in Stratford-upon-Avon and a female Hamlet on the Toronto stage, and explore the effect of performance practices on understandings of identity, death, love, race, gender, class, and culture. Providing an original approach to thinking about Shakespeare, some essays ask how the knowledge and skills associated with working lives can illuminate the playwright's works. Other essays look at ways of interacting with Shakespeare in the digital age, from Shakespearean resonances in Star Trek and Indian films to live broadcasts of theatre performances, social media, and online instructional tools. Together, the essays in this volume speak to how Shakespeare continues to enrich contemporary culture. A timely guide to the ongoing importance of Shakespearean drama, Shakespeare On Stage and Off surveys recent developments in performance, adaptation, popular culture, and education. Contributors include Russell J. Bodi (Owens State Community College), Christie Carson (Royal Holloway University of London), Brandon Christopher (University of Winnipeg), Antoni Cimolino (Stratford Festival), Jacob Claflin (College of Eastern Idaho), Lauren Eriks Cline (University of Michigan), David B. Goldstein (York University), Gina Hausknecht (Coe College), Peter Holland (University of Notre Dame), R.W. Jones (University of Texas), Christina Luckyj (Dalhousie University), Julia Reinhard Lupton (University of California, Irvine), Linda McJannet (Bentley University), Roderick H. McKeown (University of Toronto), Hayley O'Malley (University of Michigan), Amrita Sen (University of Calcutta), Eric Spencer (The College of Idaho), Lisa S. Starks (University of South Florida St Petersburg), and Jeffrey R. Wilson (Harvard University).

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Book Detail:
Author: Hardin L. Aasand
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838639467
Size: 18.66 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2003
Category: Drama
Language: en
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Download PDF Stage Directions In Hamlet eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The subject of stage directions in 'Hamlet', those brief semiotic codes that are embellished by historical, theatrical, and cultural considerations, produces a rigorous examination in the fifteen essays contained in this collection. This volume encompasses essays that are guardedly inductive in their critical approaches, as well as those that critique modern productions that attempt to achieve Shakespearean effect through a modern aesthetic. The volume also includes essays that enunciate the production of stage business as a cultural interplay between productions and social agencies outside the theater.

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Book Detail:
Author: Sarah Hatchuel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139454323
Size: 28.22 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2004-08-12
Category: Literary Criticism
Language: en
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Download PDF Shakespeare From Stage To Screen eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. How is a Shakespearean play transformed when it is directed for the screen? In this 2004 book, Sarah Hatchuel uses literary criticism, narratology, performance history, psychoanalysis and semiotics to analyse how the plays are fundamentally altered in their screen versions. She identifies distinct strategies chosen by film directors to appropriate the plays. Instead of providing just play-by-play or film-by-film analyses, the book addresses the main issues of theatre/film aesthetics, making such theories and concepts accessible before applying them to practical cases. Her book also offers guidelines for the study of sequences in Shakespearean adaptations and includes examples from all the major films from the 1899 King John, through the adaptations by Olivier, Welles and Branagh, to Taymor's 2000 Titus and beyond. This book is aimed at scholars, teachers and students of Shakespeare and film studies, providing a clear and logical apparatus with which to examine Shakespearean screen adaptations.

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Book Detail:
Author: Helga Mebus
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3638065618
Size: 17.69 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2008-06-19
Category: Literary Criticism
Language: en
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Download PDF Staging The Ghost In Shakespeare S Hamlet Along The Possibilities Of The Theatre At Shakespeare S Time eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Cologne, 10 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Shakespeare does not provide his readers with many direct stage directions in his plays. Comparing Hamlet to – just as an example – the twentieth century play The Glass Menagerie by William Tennessee shows that Tennessee, in contrast to Shakespeare, gives detailed information on how the players should look like, how they should move and speak. There is a whole chapter called “Production Notes.” Each character has a full paragraph describing how he looks like and has to act, even before they appear on stage. The description of a scene’s setting, as another example, fills up to two pages here. (Compare Tennessee 1945) Shakespeare, in contrast, leaves his readers with many indirect stage directions. Here, the reader has to find hints in the actors’ speeches that tell him how the stage-settings and actors should look like, what mood they are in, and thus how they should speak and move. Detailed studying is therefore necessary in advance of any production. Not only the play itself needs a close look but also the culture and beliefs of Shakespeare’s contemporary audience. The theatres’ possibilities at his time are another aspect. The following considers a single character in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, namely the ghost of Hamlet’s father. Since ghosts are supernatural and thus do not lead to the same image in everyone’s mind it is important to especially take a look at this character and try to find out how Shakespeare might have wanted it to appear on stage. This paper provides necessary background information, at first, about ghosts and the theatre at Shakespeare’s time. Then, the four ghost scenes in Hamlet are analyzed, considering their staging of the ghost during Shakespeare’s age along the play’s direct and indirect staging instructions.

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Book Detail:
Author: Vernon Guy Dickson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317144090
Size: 37.33 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2017-03-02
Category: Drama
Language: en
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Download PDF Emulation On The Shakespearean Stage eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The English Renaissance has long been considered a period with a particular focus on imitation; however, much related scholarship has misunderstood or simply marginalized the significance of emulative practices and theories in the period. This work uses the interactions of a range of English Renaissance plays with ancient and Renaissance rhetorics to analyze the conflicted uses of emulation in the period (including the theory and praxis of rhetorical imitatio, humanist notions of exemplarity, and the stage’s purported ability to move spectators to emulate depicted characters). This book emphasizes the need to see emulation not as a solely (or even primarily) literary practice, but rather as a significant aspect of Renaissance culture, giving insight into notions of self, society, and the epistemologies of the period and informed by the period’s own sense of theory and history. Among the individual texts examined here are Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus and Hamlet, Jonson’s Catiline, and Massinger’s The Roman Actor (with its strong relation to Jonson’s Sejanus).

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Book Detail:
Author: R. S. White
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611478561
Size: 45.46 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2015-09-10
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF Avant Garde Hamlet eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Hamlet stands as a high water mark of canonical art, yet it has equally attracted rebels and experimenters, those avant-garde writers, dramatists, performers, and filmmakers who, in their adaptations and appropriations, seek new ways of expressing innovative and challenging thoughts in the hope that they can change perceptions of their own world.

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Book Detail:
Author: Joseph Rosenblum
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538113813
Size: 70.31 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2019-10-15
Category: Literary Criticism
Language: en
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Download PDF All The World S A Stage eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This volume identifies and delineates all of the locations in Shakespeare's works—not just countries and cities, but homes, streets, and exotic locales in which all of the action takes place—from Hamlet’s castle in Denmark to Petruchio’s house in The Taming of the Shrew.

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Book Detail:
Author: Farah Karim Cooper
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474234283
Size: 57.98 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2016-04-21
Category: Drama
Language: en
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Download PDF The Hand On The Shakespearean Stage eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This ground-breaking new book uncovers the way Shakespeare draws upon the available literature and visual representations of the hand to inform his drama. Providing an analysis of gesture, touch, skill and dismemberment in a range of Shakespeare's works, it shows how the hand was perceived in Shakespeare's time as an indicator of human agency, emotion, social and personal identity. It demonstrates how the hand and its activities are described and embedded in Shakespeare's texts and about its role on the Shakespearean stage: as part of the actor's body, in the language as metaphor, and as a morbid stage-prop. Understanding the cultural signifiers that lie behind the early modern understanding of the hand and gesture, opens up new and sometimes disturbing ways of reading and seeing Shakespeare's plays.

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Book Detail:
Author: Tiffany Stern
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 041531965X
Size: 79.57 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2004
Category: Drama
Language: en
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Download PDF Making Shakespeare eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This volume offers a lively introduction to the major issues of the stage and print history of the plays, and discusses what a Shakespeare play actually is.

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Book Detail:
Author: Dominic Dromgoole
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802189687
Size: 50.70 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2017-04-26
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF Hamlet eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. From the artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London, an account of the theater’s extraordinary two-year tour bringing Hamlet to every country on earth

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Book Detail:
Author: Maurice Jonas
Publisher: anboco
ISBN: 3736419864
Size: 19.46 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2017-06-26
Category: Literary Criticism
Language: en
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Download PDF Shakespeare And The Stage eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. William Shakespeare was the English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Read about: The Early Drama, Inn-Yards, The Theatres, London Theatrical Companies, Shakespeare as an Actor, Court Performances, Theatrical Allusions

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Book Detail:
Author: Michael Dobson
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443878707
Size: 38.39 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2017-06-23
Category: Art
Language: en
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Download PDF Rewriting Shakespeare S Plays For And By The Contemporary Stage eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Why have contemporary playwrights been obsessed by Shakespeare’s plays to such an extent that most of the canon has been rewritten by one rising dramatist or another over the last half century? Among other key figures, Edward Bond, Heiner Müller, Carmelo Bene, Arnold Wesker, Tom Stoppard, Howard Barker, Botho Strauss, Tim Crouch, Bernard Marie Koltès, and Normand Chaurette have all put their radical originality into the service of adapting four-century-old classics. The resulting works provide food for thought on issues such as Shakespearean role-playing, narrative and structural re-shuffling. Across the world, new writers have questioned the political implications and cultural stakes of repeating Shakespeare with and without a difference, finding inspiration in their own national experiences and in the different ordeals they have undergone. How have our contemporaries carried out their rewritings, and with what aims? Can we still play Hamlet, for instance, as Dieter Lesage asks in his book bearing this title, or do we have to “kill Shakespeare” as Normand Chaurette implies in a work where his own creative process is detailed? What do these rewritings really share with their sources? Are they meaningful only because of Shakespeare’s shadow haunting them? Where do we draw the lines between “interpretation,” “adaptation” and “rewriting”? The contributors to this collection of essays examine modern rewritings of Shakespeare from both theoretical and pragmatic standpoints. Key questions include: can a rewriting be meaningful without the reader’s or spectator’s already knowing Shakespeare? Do modern rewritings supplant Shakespeare’s texts or curate them? Does the survival of Shakespeare in the theatrical repertory actually depend on the continued dramatization of our difficult encounters with these potentially obsolete scripts represented by rewriting?

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Book Detail:
Author: Carol Chillington Rutter
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134767803
Size: 57.87 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2002-09-11
Category: Drama
Language: en
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Download PDF Enter The Body eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. 'Enter the Body' offers a series of provocative case studies of the work women's bodies do on Shakespeare's intensely body-conscious stage. Rutter's topics are sex, death, race, gender, culture, politics, and the excessive performative body that exceeds the playtext it inhabits. As well as drawing upon vital primary documents from Shakespeare's day, Rutter offers close readings of women's performance's on stage and film in Britain today, from Peggy Ashcroft's (white) Cleopatra and Whoopi Goldberg's (whiteface) African Queen to Sally Dexter's languorous Helen and Alan Howard's raver 'Queen' of Troy.

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Book Detail:
Author: Anthony B. Dawson
Publisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press
ISBN:
Size: 74.70 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 1995
Category: Hamlet (Legendary character).
Language: en
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Download PDF Hamlet eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In this illuminating study, Anthony Dawson surveys the stage history of Hamlet from its appearance in Shakespeare's time to the efflorescence of new and challenging productions in our own. He vividly re-creates more than a dozen representative performances across three centuries. Bringing together theatre history and the interests of cultural criticism and performance theory, Dawson traces the Anglo-American acting tradition and provides a succinct account of the interpretative problems associated with texts, character, design, and the production of meaning. The final chapters extend the analysis to a number of film versions, notably those of Olivier, Kozintsev and Zeffirelli, as well as to several important European stage productions.

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Book Detail:
Author: Pascale Aebischer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521829359
Size: 53.54 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2004-04-29
Category: Drama
Language: en
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Download PDF Shakespeare S Violated Bodies eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This fascinating study looks at the violation of bodies in Shakespeare's tragedies, especially as revealed (or concealed) in performance on stage and screen. Pascale Aebischer discusses stage and screen performances of Titus Andronicus, Hamlet, Othello and King Lear with a view to showing how bodies which are virtually absent from both playtexts and critical discourse (due to silence, disability, marginalisation, racial otherness or death) can be prominent in performance, where their representation reflects the cultural and political climate of the production.

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Book Detail:
Author: Robert Speaight
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 72.56 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 1973
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Language: en
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Download PDF Shakespeare On The Stage eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This book begins at the Globe Theatre, describing performances there and at the Blackfriars as we know or conjecture them to have been from historical documents. Eighteenth-century tastes were different, and the author shows how Shakespeare's plays were adapted and often considerably altered over the following centuries. Speaight recreates famous productions from the United States, France, Italy, Germany, Russia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Poland.

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Book Detail:
Author: Gillian Woods
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474257496
Size: 17.56 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2017-12-14
Category: Drama
Language: en
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Download PDF Stage Directions And Shakespearean Theatre eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. What do 'stage directions' do in early modern drama? Who or what are they directing: action on the stage, or imagination via the page? Is the label 'stage direction' helpful or misleading? Do these 'directions' provide evidence of Renaissance playhouse practice? What happens when we put them at the centre of literary close readings of early modern plays? Stage Directions and Shakespearean Theatre investigates these problems through innovative research by a range of international experts. This collection of essays examines the creative possibilities of stage directions and and their implications for actors and audiences, readers and editors, historians and contemporary critics. Looking at the different ways stage directions make meaning, this volume provides new insights into a range of Renaissance plays.

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Book Detail:
Author: Sidney Lee
Publisher: London : J. Murray
ISBN:
Size: 74.28 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 1906
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Language: en
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Download PDF Shakespeare And The Modern Stage eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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Book Detail:
Author: Herbert R. Coursen
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874135381
Size: 43.42 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 1995
Category: Drama
Language: en
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Download PDF Reading Shakespeare On Stage eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "Reading Shakespeare on Stage offers a straightforward set of criteria whereby anyone, from the first-time playgoer to the most experienced Shakespearean scholar, may evaluate his or her response to a production of one of Shakespeare's scripts. This articulation of response is not a by-product of going to the theater, but a central part of the experience. The "invitation to response" is a function of Shakespeare's stage, which was open to the audience on three sides, and is incorporated into his scripts through soliloquies, asides, and references to Shakespeare's stage and his dramaturgy." "The concept of "script" (as opposed to "text") makes possible an approach to Shakespeare's plays as plays, a function to which their literary quality is subordinate. That fact, however, does not mean that recent critical tendencies are irrelevant to the scripts. Feminist and historicist readings of the plays are "contextualized" in and by the ongoing energy system of production. It remains true, however, that many members of the growing audience for live performances can not determine what may have been strong or weak about a given production. The size and shape of the stage and the size of the auditorium, for example, define what can occur within the given space, but few spectators take that crucial factor into account. Reading Shakespeare on Stage provides the criteria for evaluation, while at the same time admitting that the criteria themselves are subject to debate and that their application emerges from the subjective psychology of perception of individual spectators."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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