Jacobean Public Theatre

ISBN-13: 9780415010481 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 232 str.

Alexander Leggatt; A. Leggatt;Leggatt Alexand

Opis

The public playhouses of Jacobean London, and the popular drama they produced, were a vital part of English theatre history. Yet this work has too often been neglected by conventional literary criticism. This book recovers this vigorous popular drama for the modern reader by presenting the plays not as literary texts, but as scripts and using them to examine contemporary acting, production and performance values.

Spis treści

Introduction Part I Playhouses and audiences 1. Playhouses, stages and performances 2. The audiences and their culture Part II Popular dramturgy 3. Production values 4. Acting values 5. Telling the story 6. The fair maid of the west 7. The honest whore 8. If you know not me you know nobody 9. The true chronicle history of King Lear Appendix Notes Select Bibliography Index

O autorze

Leggatt, Alexander