Shakespeare And The Royal Actor
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Shakespeare And The Royal Actor
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Author : Sally Barnden
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2024
Shakespeare And The Royal Actor written by Sally Barnden and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with Art categories.
Explores the extent to which members of the royal family have appropriated the creative legacy of Shakespeare, from the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, in order to shore up royal and national ideologies and to assert the legitimacy of the monarchy.
Playing Shakespeare
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Author : John Barton
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2010-11-10
Playing Shakespeare written by John Barton and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-10 with Performing Arts categories.
Playing Shakespeare is the premier guide to understanding and appreciating the mastery of the world’s greatest playwright. Together with Royal Shakespeare Company actors–among them Patrick Stewart, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Ben Kingsley, and David Suchet–John Barton demonstrates how to adapt Elizabethan theater for the modern stage. The director begins by explicating Shakespeare’s verse and prose, speeches and soliloquies, and naturalistic and heightened language to discover the essence of his characters. In the second section, Barton and the actors explore nuance in Shakespearean theater, from evoking irony and ambiguity and striking the delicate balance of passion and profound intellectual thought, to finding new approaches to playing Shakespeare’s most controversial creation, Shylock, from The Merchant of Venice. A practical and essential guide, Playing Shakespeare will stand for years as the authoritative favorite among actors, scholars, teachers, and students.
The Routledge Companion To Actors Shakespeare
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Author : John Russell Brown
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-05-23
The Routledge Companion To Actors Shakespeare written by John Russell Brown and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-23 with Drama categories.
The Routledge Companion to Actors’ Shakespeare is a window onto how today’s actors contribute to the continuing life and relevance of Shakespeare’s plays. The process of acting is notoriously hard to document, but this volume reaches behind famous performances to examine the actors’ craft, their development and how they engage with playtexts. Each chapter relies upon privilieged access to its subject to offer an unparalleled insight into contemporary practice. This volume explores the techniques, interpretive approaches and performance styles of the following actors: Simon Russell Beale, Sinead Cusack, Judi Dench, Kate Duchene, Colm Feore, Mariah Gale, John Harrell, Greg Hicks, Rory Kinnear, Kevin Kline, Adrian Lester, Marcelo Magni, Ian McKellen, Patrice Naiambana, Vanessa Redgrave, Piotr Semak, Anthony Sher, Jonathan Slinger, Kate Valk, Harriet Walter This twin volume to The Routledge Companion to Directors’ Shakespeare is an essential work for both actors and students of Shakespeare.
Shakespeare And The Royal Actor
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Author : Sally Barnden
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2024-01-22
Shakespeare And The Royal Actor written by Sally Barnden and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
Shakespeare and the Royal Actor argues that members of the royal family have identified with Shakespearean figures at various times in modern history to assert the continuity, legitimacy, and national identity of the royal line. It provides an account of the relationship between the Shakespearean afterlife and the royal family through the lens of a broadly conceived theatre history suggesting that these two hegemonic institutions had a mutually sustaining relationship from the accession of George III in 1760 to that of Elizabeth II in 1952. Identifications with Shakespearean figures have been deployed to assert the Englishness of a dynasty with strong familial links to Germany and to cultivate a sense of continuity from the more autocratic Plantagenet, Tudor, and Stuart monarchs informing Shakespeare's drama to the increasingly ceremonial monarchs of the modern period. The book is driven by new archival research in the Royal Collection and Royal Archives. It reads these archives critically, asking how different forms of royal and Shakespearean performance are remembered in the material holdings of royal institutions.
Shakespeare S Afterlife In The Royal Collection
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2025-02-27
Shakespeare S Afterlife In The Royal Collection written by and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-02-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
This unique collection of essays and images explores a series of objects in the Royal Collection as a means of assessing the interrelated histories of the British royal family and the Shakespearean afterlife across four centuries. Between the beginning of the eighteenth century and the late twentieth, Shakespeare became entrenched as the English national poet. Over the same period, the monarchy sought repeatedly to demonstrate its centrality to British nationhood. By way of close analysis of a selection of objects from the Royal Collection, this volume argues that the royal family and the Shakespearean afterlife were far more closely interwoven than has previously been realized. The chapters map the mutual development over time of the relationship between members of the British royal family and Shakespeare, demonstrating the extent to which each has gained sustained value from association with the other and showing how members of the royal family have individually and collectively constructed their identities and performed their roles by way of Shakespearean models. Each chapter is inspired by an object in (or formerly in) the Royal Collection and explores two interconnected questions: what has Shakespeare done for the royal family, and what has the royal family done for Shakespeare? The chapters range across the fields of art, theatre history, literary criticism, literary history, court studies and cultural history, showing how the shared history of Shakespeare and the royal family has been cultivated across media and across disciplines.
The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare
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Author : William Shakespeare
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1623
The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1623 with categories.
Early Modern Actors And Shakespeare S Theatre
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Author : Evelyn Tribble
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2017-02-23
Early Modern Actors And Shakespeare S Theatre written by Evelyn Tribble and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-23 with Drama categories.
What skills did Shakespeare's actors bring to their craft? How do these skills differ from those of contemporary actors? Early Modern Actors and Shakespeare's Theatre: Thinking with the Body examines the 'toolkit' of the early modern player and suggests new readings of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries through the lens of their many skills. Theatre is an ephemeral medium. Little remains to us of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries: some printed texts, scattered documents and records, and a few scraps of description, praise, and detraction. Because most of what survives are printed playbooks, students of English theatre find it easy to forget that much of what happened on the early modern stage took place within the gaps of written language: the implicit or explicit calls for fights, dances, military formations, feats of physical skill, song, and clowning. Theatre historians and textual editors have often ignored or denigrated such moments, seeing them merely as extraneous amusements or signs that the text has been 'corrupted' by actors. This book argues that recapturing a positive account of the skills and expertise of the early modern players will result in a more capacious understanding of the nature of theatricality in the period.
Shakespeare Play
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Author : Emma Whipday
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2024-07-11
Shakespeare Play written by Emma Whipday and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
What is (a) play? How do Shakespeare's plays engage with and represent early modern modes of play – from jests and games to music, spectacle, movement, animal-baiting and dance? How have we played with Shakespeare in the centuries since? And how does the structure of the plays experienced in the early modern playhouse shape our understanding of Shakespeare plays today? Shakespeare / Play brings together established and emerging scholars to respond to these questions, using approaches spanning theatre and dance history, cultural history, critical race studies, performance studies, disability studies, archaeology, affect studies, music history, material history and literary and dramaturgical analysis. Ranging across Shakespeare's dramatic oeuvre as well as early modern lost plays, dance notation, conduct books, jest books and contemporary theatre and film, it includes consideration of Measure for Measure, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, Titus Andronicus, Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear and The Merry Wives of Windsor, among others. The subject of this volume is reflected in its structure: Shakespeare / Play features substantial new essays across 5 'acts', interwoven with 7 shorter, playful pieces (a 'prologue', 4 'act breaks', a 'jig' and a 'curtain call'), to offer new directions for research on Shakespearean playing, playmaking and performance. In so doing, this volume interrogates the conceptions of playing of/in Shakespeare that shape how we perform, read, teach and analyze Shakespeare today.
A Life Of William Shakespeare With Portraits And Facsimiles
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Author : Sir Sidney Lee
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2019-11-26
A Life Of William Shakespeare With Portraits And Facsimiles written by Sir Sidney Lee and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-26 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In "A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles," Sir Sidney Lee meticulously crafts a compelling narrative that intertwines biographical analysis with literary critique, offering readers an in-depth exploration of Shakespeare's life and works. Lee's elegant prose navigates the complexities of the Elizabethan era, illuminating the cultural, social, and political influences that shaped Shakespeare's art. Through an array of visual materials, including portraits and facsimiles, the book enriches its textual analysis, providing readers with a multifaceted understanding of both the man and his masterpieces. Lee's pioneering approach blends scholarly rigor with accessibility, appealing to both scholars and general readers alike, while situating Shakespeare firmly within the canon of English literature. Sir Sidney Lee, a prominent literary scholar of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, possessed a profound passion for Shakespeare's works, which informed his lifelong scholarship. As a founding member of the Oxford English Dictionary and a close associate of the literary world, Lee's insights drew heavily from both primary texts and contemporaneous critiques, illuminating the struggles and triumphs of Shakespeare as an artist navigating a tumultuous era. His in-depth research and fervent dedication to the Bard's legacy shaped "A Life of William Shakespeare" into a seminal text. This work is essential for readers seeking to deepen their understanding of Shakespeare's life beyond the mere texts. Lee's insights provide context that enriches the reading of Shakespeare'Äôs plays and poetry, making this book an indispensable companion for students, educators, and avid readers who wish to apprehend the full breadth of Shakespeare's brilliance and to appreciate the historic resonance of his oeuvre.
Kunene And The King
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Author : John Kani
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Kunene And The King written by John Kani and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with South Africa categories.
South Africa, 2019. Twenty-five years since the first post-apartheid democratic elections, two men from contrasting walks of life are thrust together to reflect on a quarter century of change. Jack Morris is a celebrated classical actor who has just been given both a career-defining role and a life-changing diagnosis. Besides his age, Jack has seemingly little in common with his at-home nurse Lunga Kunene, but the two men soon discover their shared passion for Shakespeare, which ignites this ‘rich, raw and shattering head-to-head’ (The Times).