Shakespeare's theatres and the effects of performance
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Shakespeare's theatres and the effects of performance
(The Arden Shakespeare library)
Arden Shakespeare, 2013
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Description
How did Elizabethan and Jacobean acting companies create their visual and aural effects? What materials were available to them and how did they influence staging and writing? What impact did the sensations of theatre have on early modern audiences? How did the construction of the playhouses contribute to technological innovations in the theatre? What effect might these innovations have had on the writing of plays?
Shakespeare's Theatres and The Effects of Performance is a landmark collection of essays by leading international scholars addressing these and other questions to create a unique and comprehensive overview of the practicalities and realities of the theatre in the early modern period.
Table of Contents
Preface
Andrew Gurr
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Introduction
Farah-Karim Cooper and Tiffany Stern
Part One: The Fabric of Early Modern Theatres
1. 'This Wide and Universal Theatre': the Theatre as Prop in Shakespeare's Metadrama
Tiffany Stern
2. Storm effects in Shakespeare
Gwilym Jones
3. Performing Materiality: Curtains on the Early Modern Stage
Nathalie Rivere de Carles
Part Two: Technologies of the Body
4. 'They eat each others' arms': Stage Blood and Body Parts
Lucy Munro
5. Cosmetic Transformations
Andrea Stevens
6. Costume, Disguise and Self-Display
Bridget Escolme
7. Character Acting
Paul Menzer
Part 3: The Sensory Stage
8. Within , Without, Withinwards: The Circulation of Sound in Shakespeare's Theatre
Bruce R. Smith
9. 'As Dirty as Smithfield and As Stinking Every Whit': The Smell of the Hope Theatre
Holly Dugan
10. Touch and Taste in Shakespeare's Theatres
Farah Karim-Cooper
11. 'Sight and Spectacle'
12. Evelyn Tribble
Notes
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"