Tim Keenan

Restoration Staging, 1660-74 (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Restoration Staging 1660-74 cuts through prevalent ideas of Restoration theatre and drama to read early plays in their original theatrical contexts.

Tim Keenan argues that Restoration play texts contain far more information about their own performance than previously imagined. Focusing on specific productions and physical staging at the three theatres operating in the first years of the Restoration - Vere Street, Bridges Street and Lincoln's Inn Fields - Keenan analyses stage directions, scene headings and other performance clues embedded in the play-texts themselves. These close readings shed new light on staging practices of the period, building a radical new model of early Restoration staging.

Restoration Staging, 1660-74 takes account of all extant new plays written for or premiered at three of London's early theatres, presenting a much-needed reassessment of early Restoration drama.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317064695
• Artikelnr.: 46757767

Autorenporträt

Tim Keenan is Lecturer in Drama (Shakespeare and the Classics) at Liverpool Hope University, and Honorary Research Fellow, University of Seville Restoration Comedy Project.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgements
List of figures
List of tables
Theatrical terms and definitions
Historical note
Introduction
1. Interpreting Restoration Drama: some facts and fictions
2. Visualising Restoration Staging
3. Modelling the Lincoln's Inn Fields stage
4. Testing the Model 1: Analysing the Plays, 1661-74
5. Testing the Model 2: Exceptional Staging Demand
6. Applying the model: cracking the codes
7. Developing a scenic dramaturgy
8. Conclusion: the plays and the model
Works cited
Index