Performing early modern drama today

"While much attention has been devoted to performances of Shakespeare's plays today, little has been focused on modern productions of the plays of his contemporaries, such as Marlowe, Webster and Jonson. Performing Early Modern Drama Today offers an overview of early modern performance, fe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Aebischer, Pascale, 1970- (-), Prince, Kathryn, 1973-
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press 2012.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b3843863x*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction / Pascale Aebischer and Kathryn Prince
  • 2. The early modern repertory and the performance of Shakespeare's contemporaries / Lucy Munro
  • 3. The seeds of time : student theatre and the drama of Shakespeare's contemporaries / Jeremy Lopez
  • 4. The performance of early modern drama at Shakespeare's Globe / Farah Karim-Cooper
  • 5. Shakespeare's contemporaries at the Royal Shakespeare Company / Coen Heijes
  • 6. The actors' Renaissance season at the Blackfriars Playhouse / Jacquelyn Bessell
  • 7. Dido, Queen of Carthage : site-specific Marlowe / Rebecca McCutcheon and Sarah Thom
  • 8. 'A freshly creepy reality' : Jacobean tragedy and realist acting on the contemporary stage / Roberta Barker
  • 9. Early modern drama on screen / Pascale Aebischer
  • 10. Letting the dead come out to dance : an embodied and spatial approach to teaching early modern drama / Jonathan Heron, Nicholas Monk and Paul Prescott
  • Appendices: 1. Professional productions of early modern drama in the UK and USA, 1960-2010 / Karin Brown; 2. Performances of early modern drama at academic institutions since 1909 / Jeremy Lopez; 3. Performances of early modern plays by amateur and student groups since 1887 / Jeremy Lopez.