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Author:   Julie Sanders (University of Nottingham)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
ISBN:  

9781139004930

ISBN 10:   113900493
Publication Date:   05 June 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
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Table of Contents

Preface. An outline of approaches taken; Introduction: brick, lime, sand, plaster over lath, and 'new oaken boards': the early modern playhouse; Case study A. Richard III at the Globe; Case study B. An outdoor theatre repertoire: the Rose on Bankside; 1. Tragedy; Case study C. Opening scenes; Case study D. Staging violence and the space of the stage; 2. Revenge drama; Case study E. 'Here in the friars': the second Blackfriars indoor playhouse; Case study F. The social life of things: skulls on the stage; 3. Histories; Case study G. Title pages and plays in print; 4. Comedy, pastoral and romantic; Case study H. The boy actor: body, costume, and disguise; 5. City comedies; Case study I. The dramaturgy of scenes; Case study J. Collaborative writing or the literary workshop; 6. Satire; Case study K. Topical theatre and 1605–6; Case study L. 'Little eyases': the children's companies and repertoire; 7. Tragicomedy; Case study M. The visual rhetoric of dumb show; Conclusion. The wind and the rain: the wider landscape of early modern performance; Chronology; Bibliography.

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Julie Sanders is Chair of English Literature and Drama at the University of Nottingham and currently Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning at its Ningbo, China campus.

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