Shakespeare Expressed (eBook, ePUB)

Page, Stage, and Classroom in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
Redaktion: Moncrief, Kathryn M.; Enloe, Sarah; McPherson, Kathryn R.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A collection of essays originally presented on the Blackfriars stage at the American Shakesepeare Center, Shakespeare Expressed brings together scholars and practitioners, often promoting ideas that can be translated into classroom experiences. Drawing on essays presented at the Sixth Blackfriars Conference, held in October 2011, the essays focus on Shakespeare in performance by including work from scholars, theatrical practitioners (actors, directors, dramaturgs, designers), and teachers in a format that facilitates conversations at the intersection of textual scholarship, theatrical performance, and pedagogy. The volume's thematic sections briefly represent some of the major issues occupying scholars and practitioners: how to handle staging choices, how modern actors embody early modern characters, how the physical and technical aspects of early modern theaters previously impacted and how they currently affect performance, and how the play texts can continue to enlighten theatrical and scholarly endeavors. A special essay on pedagogy that features specific classroom exercises also anchors each section in the collection. The result is an eclectic, stimulating, and forward-thinking look at the most current trends in early modern theater studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781611475616
• Artikelnr.: 39475964

Autorenporträt

Kathyrn M. Moncrief is professor and chair of English at Washington College. Kathryn R. McPherson is professor of English at Utah Valley University. Sarah Enloe is the Director of Education at the American Shakespeare Center.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: Lightning in a Bottle
Ralph Alan Cohen
Chapter 1: Introduction: Shakespeare Embodied, Expressed, and Enacted
Kathryn Moncrief and Kathryn McPherson:
I. The Body of the Actor
Chapter 2: Speaking in the Silence: Deaf Performance at the Oregon
Shakespeare Festival
Lezlie Cross
Chapter 3: "I Have Given Suck:" The Maternal Body in Sarah Siddons' Lady
Macbeth
Chelsea Phillips
Chapter 4: Competing Heights
Jemma Alix Levy
Chapter 5: The Mirror and the Monarchs: Suggestive Presences and
Shakespeare's Cast-Size
Brett Gamboa
Chapter 6: Embodying Shakespeare: In the Classroom
Miriam Gilbert
II. Playing the Text
Chapter 7: Remember the Porter: Knock-Knock Jokes, Tragedy, and Other
Unfunny Things
Chris Barrett
Chapter 8: Ghost in the Machine: Shakespeare, Stanislavski and Original
Practices
Peter Kanelos
Chapter 9: "Speake[ing] the speech[es]:" Reassessing the Playability of the
Earliest Printings of Hamlet
Matthew Vadnais
Chapter 10: A "Ha" in Shakespeare: The Soliloquy as Excuse and Challenge to
the Audience
Bill Gelber
Chapter 11: A Knave to Know a Knock: Exploring Character Function in Scenic
Structure
Symmonie Preston
III. Staging Choices
Chapter 12: Behind Closed Doors: Perspective and Painterly Technique on the
Early Modern English Stage
Jennifer Low
Chapter 13: Shticky Shakespeare: Exploring Action as Eloquence
Sid Ray
Chapter 14: Seeing Ghosts: Hamlet and Modern Original Practices
Fiona Harris-Ramsby & Kathryn McPherson
Chapter 15: Remembrances of yours': Properties, Performance, and Memory in
Shakespeare's Hamlet 3.1
Kathryn Moncrief
Chapter 16: The Mirror of All Christian Kings: Choral Medievalism in the
Henry V Folio
Christina Gutierrez
Chapter 17: Playing with Character-Audience Members in Early Modern
Playhouses
Sarah Enloe
IV. Playhouse and Playing Conditions
Chapter 18: Blackfriars Stage-Sitters and the Staging of The Tempest, The
Maid's Tragedy and The Two Noble Kinsmen
Leslie Thomson
Chapter 19: "The Concourse of People on the Stage": An Alternative Proposal
for Onstage Seating at the Second Blackfriars
Nova Myhill
Chapter 20: The Two Blackfriars Theatres: Discontinuity or Contiguity?
Jeanne McCarthy
Chapter 21: "Here sit we down.": The Location of Andrea and Revenge in The
Spanish Tragedy
Annalisa Castaldo
Chapter 22: Thomas Middleton's Use of the Gallery Space
Christine Parker
Chapter 23: Performing Space: Playing the Architecture
Doreen Bechtol
V. Technical and Material Matters
Chapter 24: Light and Heat in the Playhouses
Ann Jennalie Cook
Chapter 25: Lighting Effects in the Early Modern Private Playhouses
Lauren Shell
Chapter 26: Sound Trumpets
Alisha Huber
Chapter 27: Play it again, Hal: The 1605 Revival of Henry V
Melissa Aaron
Chapter 28: Playing with Early Modern Special Effects
Cass Morris