| Description |
150 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
Oxford Shakespeare topics |
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Oxford Shakespeare topics.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 128-148) and index. |
| Summary |
"This new study of Shakespeare's English history plays looks at the plays through the lens of early modern staging, focusing on the recurrence of particular stage pictures and 'units of action', and seeking to show how these units function in particular and characteristic ways within the history plays. Through close analysis of stage practice and stage picture, the book builds a profile of the kinds of writing and staging that characterise a Shakespearean history play and that differentiate one history play from another. The first part of the book concentrates primarily on the stage, looking at the 'single' picture or tableau; the use of presenters or choric figures; and the creation of horizontally and vertically divided stage pictures. Later chapters focus more on the body: on how bodies move, gesture, occupy space, and handle objects in particular kinds of scenes. The book concludes by analysing the highly developed use of one crucial stage property, the chair of state, in Shakespeare's last history play, Henry VIII."--Page 4 of cover. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Pageants and Presenters -- Stage picture: the horizontal axis -- Stage Picture: the vertical axis -- Symbolic Objects and the Ceremonial Body -- Bodies and Objects in Domestic Space -- Close-ups -- History and Providence -- The Power of the State. |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Dramatic production.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Histories.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 (DE-588)118613723
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Aufführung. (DE-588)4143388-9
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Historisches Drama. (DE-588)4025133-0
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- History plays.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history.
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English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1700 -- Historical drama.
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| Cover Title |
Shakespeare & the staging of English history |
| ISBN |
9780199593163 |
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0199593167 |
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9780199593156 (pbk.) |
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0199593159 (pbk.) |
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