The distinctive voices of Renaissance playwrights can make a classroom come alive. This volume explores the compelling dramatic technique and rich language in a wide variety of well-known and less-familiar Renaissance plays. The essays collected here challenge teachers to help students, whose experience is usually limited to reading Shakespeare or seeing movie versions of his plays, see beyond the initial strangeness of Renaissance drama. A series of reading, performance, and research tools are outlined for teachers who wish to encourage students not only to understand the English Renaissance...
The distinctive voices of Renaissance playwrights can make a classroom come alive. This volume explores the compelling dramatic technique and rich lan...
The distinctive voices of Renaissance playwrights can make a classroom come alive. This volume explores the compelling dramatic technique and rich language in a wide variety of well-known and less-familiar Renaissance plays. The essays collected here challenge teachers to help students, whose experience is usually limited to reading Shakespeare or seeing movie versions of his plays, see beyond the initial strangeness of Renaissance drama. A series of reading, performance, and research tools are outlined for teachers who wish to encourage students not only to understand the English Renaissance...
The distinctive voices of Renaissance playwrights can make a classroom come alive. This volume explores the compelling dramatic technique and rich lan...
Essays in part one of Theatre History Studies, Vol. 35 address theatrical production in very specific historical contexts, among them German theatre from the rubble of Berlin and German nationalist mass spectacles. Essays in part two are devoted to the theme of Rethinking the Maternal in contemporary and historical theatre. Also included is the Robert A. Schanke Award-winning essay Whispers from a Silent Past: Inspiration and Memory in Natasha Tretheway s Native Guard, a keynote essay by Irma Mayorga, and eighteen reviews of new book publications of note. Theatre History...
Essays in part one of Theatre History Studies, Vol. 35 address theatrical production in very specific historical contexts, among them German th...