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Moving Shakespeare Indoors : Performance and Repertoire in the Jacobean Playhouse /

"Shakespeare's Company, the King's Men, played at the Globe, and also in an indoor theatre, the Blackfriars. The year 2014 witnesses the opening of the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, based on seventeenth-century designs of an indoor London theatre and built within the precincts of the curre...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gurr, Andrew (Editor ), Karim-Cooper, Farah (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
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  • 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.