10% off all books and free delivery over £40 - Last Express Posting Date for Christmas: 20th December
Buy from our bookstore and 25% of the cover price will be given to a school of your choice to buy more books. *15% of eBooks.

Staging in Shakespeare's Theatres

View All Editions

The selected edition of this book is not available to buy right now.
Add To Wishlist
Write A Review

About

Staging in Shakespeare's Theatres Synopsis

Oxford Shakespeare Topics provides students, teachers, and interested readers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an authority in its field, and combines accessible style with original discussion of its subject. Notes and a critical guide to further reading equip the interested reader with the means to broaden research. By bringing together evidence from different sources–documentary, archaeological, and the play-texts themselves–Staging in Shakespeare's Theatres reconstructs the ways in which the plays were originally staged in the theatres of Shakespeare's own time, and shows how the physical possibilities and limitations of these theatres affected both the writing and the performances. The book explains the conditions under which the early playwrights and players worked, their preparation of the plays for the stage, and their rehearsal practices. It looks at the quality of evidence supplied by the surviving play-texts, and the extent to which audiences of the time differed from modern audiences; and it gives vivid examples of how Elizabethan actors made use of gestures, costumes, props, and the theatre's specific design features. Stage movement is analysed through a careful study of how exits and entrances worked on such stages. The final chapter offers a thorough examination of Hamlet as a text for performance, excitingly returning the play to its original staging at the Globe.

About This Edition

ISBN: 9780198711582
Publication date: 17th February 2000
Author: Andrew Professor of English, Professor of English, University of Reading Gurr, Mariko Associate Professor of Engli Ichikawa
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 188 pages
Series: Oxford Shakespeare Topics
Genres: Literary studies: plays and playwrights
Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800
Theatre studies