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Elizabethan popular theatre : plays in performance /
Elizabethan Popular Theatre surveys the Golden Age of English popular theatre: the 1590s, the age of Marlowe and the young Shakespeare. The book describes the staging practices, performance conditions and acting techniques of the period, focusing on five popular dramas: The Spanish Tragedy, Mucedoru...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2005, ©1982.
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| Colección: | Routledge library editions. Shakespeare ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Elizabethan Popular Theatre: Plays in Performance; Copyright; Contents; Preface and acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One The idea of Elizabethan theatre; I · Playhouses and stages; Seven playhouses; A drawing of the Swan; Halls and fairgrounds; The stage, the tiring-house, and the canopy; The furnishing of the stage; The auditorium; 2 . Performances; City and Court; Audiences; Preparation and rehearsal; Scene building; Music and dancing; Dumb shows, set pieces, and jigs; 3 · Players and playing; Playhouse economics; Acting styles; Plays and games; Boy players; Make-up and costumes.
- Clowns and tragediansShakespeare, Marlowe
- and Brecht; Speaking the speech; Part Two Plays; 4 . The Spanish Tragedy: architectonic design; 5 · Mucedorus: the exploitation of convention; 6 · Edward II: dramatic documentary; 7 · Doctor Faustus: ritual shows; 8 · Titus Andronicus: strange images of death; Abbreviations; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.