Shakespeare's Theatres and the Effects of Performance
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Farah Karim-Cooper is Head of Research at Shakespeare's Globe, London, UK and the author of several critical studies focussing on performance.
Tiffany Stern is Beaverbrook and Bouverie Fellow and Tutor in English, University College, Oxford, UK. She is a General Editor of the New Mermaids series and the author of several critical studies.
Contributors include: Andrew Gurr, Gwilym Jones (Queen Mary, University of London), Nathalie Rivere de Carles (University of Toulouse), Lucy Munro (University of Keele), Andrea Stevens (University of Illinois), Bridget Escolme (Queen Mary, University of London), Paul Menzer (Mary Baldwin College), Bruce Smith (University of Southern California), Holly Dugan (George Washington University), Evelyn Tribble (University of Otago)
The volume is a useful touchstone for scholars working on the senses, as well as being an authoritative introduction to the possible reception of the plays in early modern theatres
- Johann Gregory, University of East Anglia, UK, Notes and Queries
This collection's successful three-part structure ... investigates the fabric of early modern theatre-houses, the technologies of staging bodies and drama's evocation of the senses. The wonderfully diverse range of subjects brings this all to life.
- Eleanor Decamp, Around the Globe
With the opening of another reconstructed (or ‘reimagined’) early modern theatre in the Sam Wanamaker playhouse, and continued experimentation around the performance and practice of early modern drama more generally, this is a timely and thought-provoking volume about how the companies enacted and produced theatrical effects...
- Eoin Price, Eleanor Collins, Helen F. Smith, Chloe Preedy And Jem Bloomfield, Year's Work in English Studies
All the essays in this collection heighten our perception of the differences between early modern and contemporary theatrical spaces, conventions, and cultures. They provide an insightful account of early modern theater that both facilitates and complicates attempts to recreate early modern plays in the spirit and practice of their Elizabethan counterparts.
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Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Farah Karim-Cooper is Head of Research at Shakespeare's Globe, London, UK and the author of several critical studies focussing on performance.
Tiffany Stern is Beaverbrook and Bouverie Fellow and Tutor in English, University College, Oxford, UK. She is a General Editor of the New Mermaids series and the author of several critical studies.
Contributors include: Andrew Gurr, Gwilym Jones (Queen Mary, University of London), Nathalie Rivere de Carles (University of Toulouse), Lucy Munro (University of Keele), Andrea Stevens (University of Illinois), Bridget Escolme (Queen Mary, University of London), Paul Menzer (Mary Baldwin College), Bruce Smith (University of Southern California), Holly Dugan (George Washington University), Evelyn Tribble (University of Otago)