Overview

This collection brings together a group of distinguished and original theatre historians engaged in rethinking the nature of early modern theatre history as a discipline. Whether focusing on the relation between scripts and performance practice, the structure of theatrical companies, the social dimensions of drama, or the archaeology of the stage, all are concerned with basic questions of evidence and interpretation, and offer significant, and often startling, revisions of our view of the early modern theatre.

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Author:   P. Holland ,  S. Orgel
Publisher:   Palgrave USA
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   2004 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781403933430

ISBN 10:   140393343
Pages:   251
Publication Date:   29 October 2004
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Series Introduction: Redefining British Theatre History Notes on Contributors Introduction: A View from the Stage; S.Orgel PART I: QUESTIONS OF EVIDENCE Henslowe's Rose/Shakespeare's Globe; R.A.Foakes Masks, Mimes and Miracles: Medieval English Theatricality and its Illusions; R.Beadle Theatre without Drama: Reading REED ; P.Holland PART II: INTERROGATING DATA A New Theater Historicism; A.Gurr Staging Evidence; A.B.Dawson PART III: WHAT IS A PLAY? Drama in the Archives: Recognizing Medieval Plays; C.Sponsler E/loco/com/motion; B.R.Smith Re-patching the Play; T.Stern PART IV: WOMEN'S WORK Slanderous Aesthetics and the Woman Writer: The Case of Hole v. White; C.Sale Labors Lost: Women's Work and Early Modern Theatrical Commerce; N.Korda The Sharer and His Boy: Rehearsing Shakespeare's Women; S.McMillin Index

Reviews

'Compellingly readable essays.' - Laurie Maguire, Times Higher Education Supplement '...the-after history of early modern England is a field rich with possibilities, and From Script to Stage is a valuable and provocative invitiation to continue and reshape the discipline.' - Sixteenth Century Journal

'Compellingly readable essays.' - Laurie Maguire, Times Higher Education Supplement '...the-after history of early modern England is a field rich with possibilities, and From Script to Stage is a valuable and provocative invitiation to continue and reshape the discipline.' - Sixteenth Century Journal

Author Information

Peter Holland is the McMeel Family Professor of Shakespeare Studies in the Department of Film, Television and Theater in the University of Notre Dame, USA. Among his books are The Ornament of Action (1979) and English Shakespeares: Shakespeare on the English Stage in the 1990s (1997). He is the editor of Shakespeare Survey and General Editor (with Stanley Wells) of Oxford Shakespeare Topics. Stephen Orgel is the Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University. His most recent books are Imagining Shakespeare (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), The Authentic Shakespeare (2002) and Impersonations: The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare's England (1996). His many editions include The Tempest and The Winter's Tale in The Oxford Shakespeare, and Macbeth, King Lear, Pericles, The Taming of the Shrew and The Sonnets in the New Pelican Shakespeare, of which he and A.R. Braunmuller are General Editors.

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