Janette Dillon (Professor of Drama at the University of Nottingham)

Shakespeare and the Staging of English History

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Produktbeschreibung

This new study of Shakespeare's English history plays looks at the plays through the lens of early modern staging, focusing on the recurrence of particular stage pictures and 'units of action', and seeking to show how these units function in particular and characteristic ways within the history plays.

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Produktdetails

• Oxford Shakespeare Topics
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 296g
• ISBN-13: 9780199593163
• ISBN-10: 0199593167
• Artikelnr.: 34554159

Autorenporträt

Janette Dillon is Professor of Drama at the University of Nottingham and author of The Language of Space in Court Performance, 1400-1625 (CUP, 2010), The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Tragedies (CUP, 2007), The Cambridge Introduction to Early English Theatre (CUP, 2006) and numerous other books and articles on medieval and early modern theatre

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
2: Pageants and Presenters
3: Stage picture: the horizontal axis
4: Stage Picture: the vertical axis
5: Symbolic Objects and the Ceremonial Body
6: Bodies and Objects in Domestic Space
7: Close-ups
8: History and Providence
9: The Power of the State
Notes
Further Reading
Index