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Moving Shakespeare indoors : performance and repertoire in the Jacobean playhouse / edited by Andrew Gurr and Farah Karim-Cooper.
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Date published
2014
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Publisher
[Cambridge] : Cambridge University Press, [2014].
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Editor
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Subject
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Dramatic production.
Theater Production and direction England London History 17th century
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Accession number
8341247
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Class
83.1/MOV
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Language
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Physical description
xiii, 284 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm.
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Contents: Introduction / Andrew Gurr and Farah Karim-Cooper -- Part I. The context of hard evidence. 1. Why the theatres changed / John H. Astington ; 2. Practical evidence for a re-imagined indoor Jacobean theatre / Jon Greenfield (with assistance from Peter McCurdy) ; 3. Documentary evidence for an indoor Jacobean theatre / Oliver Jones ; 4. Continuities and innovations in staging / Mariko Ichikawa -- Part II. Materiality indoors. 5. 'A ruinous monastery' : the second Blackfriars playhouse as a place of nostalgia / Tiffany Stern ; 6. 'When torchlight made an artificial noon' : light and darkness in the indoor Jacobean theatre / Martin White ; 7. Acoustic and visual practices indoors / Sarah Dustagheer ; 8. The audience of the indoor theatre / Penelope Woods ; 9. In the event of fire / Paul Menzer ; 10. To glisten in a playhouse : cosmetic beauty indoors / Farah Karim-Cooper -- Part III. The new fashions for indoors. 11. The new fashion for indoor plays / Andrew Gurr ; 12. Changing fashions : tragicomedy, romance and heroic women in the 1630s hall-playhouses / Eleanor Collins ; 13. Reviving the legacy of indoor performance / Bart van Es -- Appendix: list of plays performed at indoor playhouses, 1575-1642 / Sarah Dustagheer.