Shakespeare's Double Plays

2018-05-03
Shakespeare's Double Plays

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  • Author: Brett Gamboa
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1108417434
  • Category : Drama
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 303

Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. 'Improbable fictions: Shakespeare's plays without the plays; 2. Versatility and verisimilitude on sixteenth-century stages; 3. Doubling in The Winter's Tale; 4. Dramaturgical directives and Shakespeare's cast size; 5. Doubling in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Romeo and Juliet; 6. Where the boys aren't; 7. Doubling in Twelfth Night and Othello; Epilogue: Ragozine and Shakespearean substitution; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.

Playing Shakespeare

2010-11-10
Playing Shakespeare

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  • Author: John Barton
  • Publisher: Anchor
  • ISBN: 0307773914
  • Category : Performing Arts
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 286

Playing Shakespeare is the premier guide to understanding and appreciating the mastery of the world’s greatest playwright. Together with Royal Shakespeare Company actors–among them Patrick Stewart, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Ben Kingsley, and David Suchet–John Barton demonstrates how to adapt Elizabethan theater for the modern stage. The director begins by explicating Shakespeare’s verse and prose, speeches and soliloquies, and naturalistic and heightened language to discover the essence of his characters. In the second section, Barton and the actors explore nuance in Shakespearean theater, from evoking irony and ambiguity and striking the delicate balance of passion and profound intellectual thought, to finding new approaches to playing Shakespeare’s most controversial creation, Shylock, from The Merchant of Venice. A practical and essential guide, Playing Shakespeare will stand for years as the authoritative favorite among actors, scholars, teachers, and students.

Shakespeare's Double Plays

2018-05-03
Shakespeare's Double Plays

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  • Author: Brett Gamboa
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1108281117
  • Category : Drama
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 304

In the first comprehensive study of how Shakespeare designed his plays to suit his playing company, Brett Gamboa demonstrates how Shakespeare turned his limitations to creative advantage, and how doubling roles suited his unique sense of the dramatic. By attending closely to their dramaturgical structures, Gamboa analyses casting requirements for the plays Shakespeare wrote for the company between 1594 and 1610, and describes how using the embedded casting patterns can enhance their thematic and theatrical potential. Drawing on historical records, dramatic theory, and contemporary performance this innovative work questions received ideas about early modern staging and provides scholars and contemporary theatre practitioners with a valuable guide to understanding how casting can help facilitate audience engagement. Supported by an appendix of speculative doubling charts for plays, illustrations, and online resources, this is a major contribution to the understanding of Shakespeare's dramatic craft.

Shakespeare's History Plays

2017-11-01
Shakespeare's History Plays

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  • Author: Neema Parvini
  • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
  • ISBN: 147442354X
  • Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 256

Shakespeare's History Plays boldly moves criticism of Shakespeare's history plays beyond anti-humanist theoretical approaches. This important intervention in the critical and theoretical discourse of Shakespeare studies summarises, evaluates and ultimately calls time on the mode of criticism that has prevailed in Shakespeare studies over the past thirty years. It heralds a new, more dynamic way of reading Shakespeare as a supremely intelligent and creative political thinker, whose history plays address and illuminate the very questions with which cultural historicists have been so preoccupied since the 1980s. In providing bold and original readings of the first and second tetralogies (Henry VI, Richard III, Richard II and Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2), the book reignites old debates and re-energises recent bids to humanise Shakespeare and to restore agency to the individual in the critical readings of his plays

Shakespeare

2011
Shakespeare

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  • Author: A. D. Cousins
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781554079285
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

A beautifully illustrated reference to Shakespeare and his time.

The Sources of Shakespeare's Plays

2014-04-04
The Sources of Shakespeare's Plays

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  • Author: Kenneth Muir
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1317833414
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 344

First published in 1977. This book ascertains what sources Shakespeare used for the plots of his plays and discusses the use he made of them; and secondly illustrates how his general reading is woven into the texture of his work. Few Elizabethan dramatists took such pains as Shakespeare in the collection of source-material. Frequently the sources were apparently incompatible, but Shakespeare's ability to combine a chronicle play, one or two prose chronicles, two poems and a pastoral romance without any sense of incongruity, was masterly. The plays are examined in approximately chronological order and Shakespeare's developing skill becomes evident.

The Plays of Shakespeare

1819
The Plays of Shakespeare

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  • Author: William Shakespeare
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 508

Great Scenes from Shakespeare's Plays

2000-02-01
Great Scenes from Shakespeare's Plays

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  • Author: John Green
  • Publisher: Courier Corporation
  • ISBN: 9780486409603
  • Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 68

Well-known scenes from "Hamlet," "King Lear," "Macbeth," "Romeo and Juliet," "Julius Caesar," and 15 other popular plays. Summaries, selections from the appropriate text, and captions accompany the illustrations. 30 black-and-white illustrations.

Shakespeare on the Double! Macbeth

2006-08-28
Shakespeare on the Double! Macbeth

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  • Author: William Shakespeare
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • ISBN: 0544187539
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 194

No more "Double, double, toil and trouble?" Now you can learn Shakespeare on the double! Macbeth has all the ingredients of a modern day bestseller-greed, ambition, murder, mayhem, madness, politics, assassinations, hallucinations, prophecies, spells, and rebellion. Potions and emotions simmer. One betrayal leads to another. Now you can sit back and read Macbeth like the thriller it is! This modern, easy-to-understand translation makes reading it quick and painless. Other aids make following the action and grasping the meaning a snap: A brief synopsis of the plot and action A comprehensive character list that describes the characteristics, motivations, and actions of each major player A visual character map that shows the relationships of major characters A cycle-of-death graphic that pinpoints the sequence of deaths and includes who dies, how they die, and why Reflective questions that help you understand the themes of the play Shakespeare on the Double! Macbeth lets you enjoy this classic play your way!

The Best-loved Plays of Shakespeare

2004
The Best-loved Plays of Shakespeare

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  • Author: Jennifer Mulherin
  • Publisher: Cherrytree Books
  • ISBN: 9781842342268
  • Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 164

Presents a plot synopsis, character sketches, and quotations from each of ten plays, plus a brief biography of William Shakespeare.