Renaissance Drama in ActionRenaissance Drama in Action is a fascinating exploration of Renaissance theatre practice and staging. Covering questions of contemporary playhouse design, verse and language, staging and rehearsal practices, and acting styles, Martin White relates the characteristics of Renaissance theatre to the issues involved in staging the plays today. |
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... periods as performance texts - in the playhouses of those times and in our own . I have tried , therefore , within the texts of the chapters and through the use of a number of case studies , to mix the historical study with examples of ...
... periods the English language faced the challenge of expressing and describing the flood of technological , geographical and scientific discoveries . The development of a vernacular language became a matter of national pride , and ...
... period , the transition from an oral culture to one domi- nated by the written word was still far from complete : despite the fact that London had a substantially higher literacy rate than the rest of the country , only about a third of ...
... period of standard grammatical practices , different conventions of word order produce for us easily misunderstood sentences , such as in the following speech from Ford's The Broken Heart ( 1633 ) : Orgilus , Take heed thou hast not ...
... period – the ' amplification ' that the Erasmus exercises produced - might be used by dramatists to suggest surface rather than depth ( as with Osric in Hamlet ) , or to dramatise expan- siveness and scale in a character ( as Jonson ...
Contents
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Speeches well pronounced with action lively | 58 |
outdoor playing spaces | 109 |
indoor playing spaces | 144 |
some comic irresolutions | 177 |
Renaissance drama | 197 |
New plays for old Richard Brome and Stephen | 217 |
Postscript | 233 |
Bibliography | 245 |
Index | 259 |
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Renaissance Drama in Action: An Introduction to Aspects of Theatre Practice ... Martin White No preview available - 1998 |