Moving Shakespeare Indoors

Performance and Repertoire in the Jacobean Playhouse

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Author

Publication

2014 - Cambridge University Press

Language

English

Word Count

77,000 words, Guess

Page Count

308 pages

Identifiers

Open LibraryOL28519044M
ISBN-139781107040632
OCLC Control Number870211347
Library of Congress Control Number2014001852

Classifications

LCCPR3091 .M68 2014

Description

"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 current Globe on Bankside. This volume, edited by Andrew Gurr and Farah Karim-Cooper, asks what prompted the move to indoor theatres, and considers the effects that more intimate staging, lighting and music had on performance and repertory. It discusses what knowledge is required when attempting to build an archetype of such a theatre, and looks at the effects of the theatre on audience behaviour and reception. Exploring the ways in which indoor theatre shaped the writing of Shakespeare and his contemporaries in the late Jacobean and early Caroline periods, this book will find a substantial readership among scholars of Shakespeare and Jacobean theatre history"--