John H. Astington

Actors and Acting in Shakespeare's Time

The Art of Stage Playing

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Perfect for courses, this book is an account of the first actors in the plays of Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Jonson.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 581g
• ISBN-13: 9780521192507
• ISBN-10: 0521192501
• Artikelnr.: 30881264

Autorenporträt

John H. Astington is Professor in the Department of English and the Graduate Centre for the Study of Drama at the University of Toronto. He is the author of English Court Theatre, 1558-1642 (Cambridge University Press, 1999), and has published articles and chapters in many books and journals including The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare, The Cambridge Shakespeare Library, The Oxford Handbook to Early Modern Theatre and The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the purpose of playing
1. Shadows, jests, and counterfeits
2. Playing and education
3. Apprentices
4. Playing many parts
5. Players at work
6. Conclusion
Appendix. Principal actors 1558-1660
Bibliography.

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Introduction: the purpose of playing; 1. Shadows, jests, and counterfeits; 2. Playing and education; 3. Apprentices; 4. Playing many parts; 5. Players at work; 6. Conclusion; Appendix. Principal actors 1558-1660; Bibliography.

Rezensionen

'The book offers a complex, lively, absorbing sense of the acting profession, its 'art' and social networks.' Eleanor Lowe, Early Theatre