David Bradley, Bradley David

From Text to Performance in the Elizabethan Theatre

Preparing the Play for the Stage

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

David Bradley sets out to discover how Elizabethan theatre companies prepared plays for performance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 495g
• ISBN-13: 9780521109444
• ISBN-10: 0521109442
• Artikelnr.: 26056881

Autorenporträt

David Bradley is a journalist currently covering the U.S. energy industry. He spent more than a decade working at newspapers in Northern Virginia, including the Loudoun Easterner, Loudoun Independent and Loudoun Times-Mirror. He lives in Sterling, Virginia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The logic of entrances
2. Plotting from the texts
3. The travelling companies
4. The Plotter at work
5. Interpreting the Plots
6. Alcazar: the text and the sources
7. The Plotter under pressure
8. Reconstructing the second column
9. The dumb-shows
Appendix: cast-lists of public theatre plays 1497-1625
Notes
Select bibliography
Indexes.