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  • Staging, Playing, Pyrotechnics and Magic: Conventions of Performance in Early English Theatre

    Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies

    by Philip Butterworth ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    In this selection of research articles Butterworth focuses on investigation of the practical and technical means by which early English theatre, from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth century, was performed. Matters of staging for both 'pageant vehicle' and 'theatre-in-the-round' are described and analysed to consider their impact on playing by players, expositors, narrators and prompters. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to English Folk Performance

    Edited by Peter Harrop, Steve Roud ...
    Series series Routledge Companions
    This broad-based collection of essays is an introduction both to the concerns of contemporary folklore scholarship and to the variety of forms that folk performance has taken throughout English history.Combining case studies of specific folk practices with discussion of the various different lenses through which they have been viewed since becoming the subject of concerted study in Victorian times ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Mummers' Plays Revisited

    by Peter Harrop ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    Peter Harrop offers a reappraisal of mummers’ plays, which have long been regarded as a form of ‘folk’ or ‘traditional’ drama, somehow separate from the mainstream of British theatre.This fresh view of folk and tradition explores how mummers’ plays emerged in an 18th century theatrical environment of popular spouting clubs and private theatricals, yet quickly transformed into ‘traditionary’ drama ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Encountering Ensemble

    by Reader in Drama, Theatre and Performance David Barnett, Michael Boyd, Bryan Brown, Mr Frank Camilleri, Franc Chamberlain, Terence Chapman, John Collins, Antje Diedrich, Mark Evans, Tanya Gerstle, Professor of Theatre and Media Drama Richard J. Hand, Peter Harrop, Paz Hilfinger-Pardo, Kate Hunter, Malgorzata Jablonska, Duncan Jamieson, Evelyn Jamieson, Chris Johnston, Brad Krumholz, Rebecca Loukes, Mr Eilon Morris, Jonathan Pitches, Anna Porubcansky, Duška Radosavljevic, Marianne Sharp, Amy Skinner, Patrick Stewart, Susan Thompson, Mark Valdez, Julia Varley, Phillip Zarrilli, Dr Adam J. Ledger, Dr. Paul Carr ...
    Series series Performance Books
    Encountering Ensemble, is a text for students, teachers, researchers and practitioners who wish to develop a deeper understanding of the history, conceptual foundations and practicalities of the world of ensemble theatre. It is the first book to draw together definitions and practitioner examples, making it a cutting edge work on the subject.Encountering Ensemble combines historical and ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

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  • King Henry V

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Series series The New Cambridge Shakespeare
    For this updated edition of Shakespeare's most celebrated war play, Professor Gurr has added a new section to his introduction which considers recent critical and stage interpretations, especially concentrating on the 'secret' versus 'official' readings of the play. He analyses the play's double vision of Henry as both military hero and self-seeking individual. Professor Gurr shows how the ... Read more

    $11.89 USD

  • The Social Life of Books

    Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home

    by Abigail Williams ...
    Series series The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
    "A lively survey…her research and insights make us conscious of how we, today, use books."—John Sutherland, The New York Times Book ReviewTwo centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainment and an integral component of domestic social life. In this fascinating and vivid history, Abigail Williams explores the ways in which ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs

    by Julia Bishop, Steve Roud ...
    One of the Spectator's Books of the Year 2012'Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladiesFarewell and adieu to you ladies of SpainFor we've received orders for to sail for old EnglandBut we hope in a short while to see you again'**One of the great English popular art forms, the folk song can be painful, satirical, erotic, dramatic, rueful or funny. They have thrived when sung on a whim to a ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Fools and Jesters at the English Court

    by John Southworth ...
    Fools have been a feature of virtually every recorded culture in the history of civilization, making significant contributions to the development of early theatre and literary drama. This book offers a reign by reign chronicle of English court fools. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Actors and Acting in Shakespeare's Time

    The Art of Stage Playing

    by John H. Astington ...
    John Astington brings the acting style of the Shakespearean period to life, describing and analysing the art of the player in the English professional theatre between Richard Tarlton and Thomas Betterton. The book pays close attention to the cultural context of stage playing, the critical language used about it, and the kinds of training and professional practice employed in the theatre at various ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • Who Wrote Shakespeare?

    The Case for William Shakespeare of Stratford

    by James Shapiro ...
    This ebook is an excerpt from Contested Will by James Shapiro, and originally appeared as the last section titled "Shakespeare." In this chapter, Shapiro succintly and eloquently makes the case for why no one else but Shakespeare could have written Shakespeare's plays. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Folk Song in England

    by Steve Roud ...
    In Victorian times, England was famously dubbed the land without music - but one of the great musical discoveries of the early twentieth century was that England had a vital heritage of folk song and music which was easily good enough to stand comparison with those of other parts of Britain and overseas. Cecil Sharp, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Percy Grainger, and a number of other enthusiasts ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Henry VIII

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Series series Folger Shakespeare Library
    The authoritative edition of Henry VIII from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.In Henry VIII, Shakespeare presents a monarchy in crisis. Noblemen battle with Lord Chancellor Cardinal Wolsey, who taxes the people to the point of rebellion. Witnesses whom Wolsey brings against the Duke of Buckingham claim he is conspiring ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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