Playing Indoors: Staging Early Modern Drama in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

Author:   Will Tosh (Shakespeare's Globe, London, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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9781350109506


Pages:   296
Publication Date:   21 March 2019
Format:   Paperback
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Playing Indoors: Staging Early Modern Drama in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse


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What have we discovered about performance practice in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse since the opening of the intimate candlelit theatre at Shakespeare’s Globe? Playing Indoors reveals the results of a two-year study into the performance of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama in this unique theatre, drawing together insights into early modern stage practice and the observations of today’s actors and spectators. A history of the encounters of artists and audience members who experienced the space first, the book is also a study of the significance of re-imagined theatres like the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse and the Globe. Accessibly written for students, scholars, artists and theatre-goers, Playing Indoors is a valuable contribution to the young field of early modern practice-as-research.

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Author:   Will Tosh (Shakespeare's Globe, London, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   The Arden Shakespeare
Weight:   0.332kg
ISBN:  

9781350109506


ISBN 10:   1350109509
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   21 March 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

List of Plates Acknowledgements Note on texts and editions Prologue Part I. Playhouse in context Chapter 1. Origins Chapter 2. Reception Part II. Playhouse at work Chapter 3. ‘Fair lightsome lodgings’: Initial responses to the space Chapter 4. ‘Full and significant action’: Technique and craft Chapter 5. ‘This darkness suits you well’: Acting by candlelight Chapter 6. ‘You can’t help but be involved’: Audiences in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse Part III. Playhouse and Research in Action Chapter 7. Stagecraft in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse Chapter 8. Music and lighting in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse Epilogue Appendices Bibliography Index

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A powerful introductory panorama of the first few years of the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, offering a pleasing insight to a general public and a useful point of departure for an academic readership ... Tosh has provided a much-needed account of the inner workings of this space from various perspectives. * Skene Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies * With academic rigour, with mischievous wit, and with infectious excitement, Will Tosh records the progress of the creation of this jewel of a new theatre. A book of sharp pleasure. -- DOMINIC DROMGOOLE, Director, Classic Spring & Open Palm Films This is a fascinating cultural history of a new theatre and its reception; it offers a perceptive reading of our contemporary relationship with the Jacobean and draws upon a wealth of scholarly research, artists' experience and audience responses, to explore how architecture, aesthetics, text and practitioner create theatrical meaning. -- BRIDGET ESCOLME, Queen Mary University of London, UK Will Tosh's exhilarating exploration makes Theatre History anew as the history of a single theatre. This is a superbly engaging scholarly celebration of a remarkable theatre space. -- PETER HOLLAND, University of Notre Dame, USA


With academic rigour, with mischievous wit, and with infectious excitement, Will Tosh records the progress of the creation of this jewel of a new theatre. A book of sharp pleasure. -- DOMINIC DROMGOOLE, Director, Classic Spring & Open Palm Films This is a fascinating cultural history of a new theatre and its reception; it offers a perceptive reading of our contemporary relationship with the Jacobean and draws upon a wealth of scholarly research, artists' experience and audience responses, to explore how architecture, aesthetics, text and practitioner create theatrical meaning. -- BRIDGET ESCOLME, Queen Mary University of London, UK Will Tosh's exhilarating exploration makes Theatre History anew as the history of a single theatre. This is a superbly engaging scholarly celebration of a remarkable theatre space. -- PETER HOLLAND, University of Notre Dame, USA


Author Information

Will Tosh is Lecturer and Research Fellow at Shakespeare’s Globe, London, UK. He led the Indoor Performance Practice Project (2014–16), which examined playing in the candle-lit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, and coordinates Globe Education’s on-going Research in Action series of public workshops. He is the author of Male Friendship and Testimonies of Love in Shakespeare’s England (2016).

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