Moving Shakespeare Indoors (eBook, ePUB)

Performance and Repertoire in the Jacobean Playhouse
Redaktion: Gurr, Andrew

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Shakespeare's company, the King's Men, played at the Globe, and also in an indoor theatre, the Blackfriars. The year 2014 witnessed the opening of the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, based on seventeenth-century designs of an indoor London theatre and built within the precincts of the current Globe on Bankside. This volume, edited by Andrew Gurr and Farah Karim-Cooper, asks what prompted the move to indoor theatres, and considers the effects that more intimate staging, lighting and music had on performance and repertory. It discusses what knowledge is required when attempting to build an archetype of such a theatre, and looks at the effects of the theatre on audience behaviour and reception. Exploring the ways in which indoor theatre shaped the writing of Shakespeare and his contemporaries in the late Jacobean and early Caroline periods, this book will find a substantial readership among scholars of Shakespeare and Jacobean theatre history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139862165
• Artikelnr.: 52968648

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Andrew Gurr and Farah Karim-Cooper; Part I. The Context of
Hard Evidence: 1. Why the theatres changed John H. Astington; 2. Practical
evidence for a re-imagined indoor Jacobean theatre Jon Greenfield and Peter
McCurdy; 3. Documentary evidence for an indoor Jacobean theatre Oliver
Jones; 4. Continuities and innovations in staging Mariko Ichikawa; Part II.
Materiality Indoors: 5. 'A ruinous monastery': the Second Blackfriars
playhouse as a place of nostalgia Tiffany Stern; 6. 'When torchlight made
an artificial noon': light and darkness in the indoor Jacobean theatre
Martin White; 7. Acoustic and visual practices indoors Sarah Dustagheer; 8.
The audience of the indoor theatre Penelope Woods; 9. In the event of fire
Paul Menzer; 10. To glisten in a playhouse: cosmetic beauty indoors Farah
Karim-Cooper; Part III. The New Fashions for Indoors: 11. The new fashion
for indoor plays Andrew Gurr; 12. Changing fashions: tragicomedy, romance
and heroic women in the 1630s hall-playhouses Eleanor Collins; 13. Reviving
the legacy of indoor performance Bart van Es; Appendix: list of plays
performed at indoor playhouses, 1575-1642 Sarah Dustagheer.