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Performing early modern drama today / edited by Pascale Aebischer and Kathryn Prince.

  • Accession number

    83451072

  • Class

    Reading Room - 72/PER

  • Physical description

    xiii, 247 pages ; 24 cm

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Contents: 1. Introduction / Pascale Aebischer and Kathryn Prince -- 2. The early modern repertory and the performance of Shakespeare's contemporaries / Lucy Munro -- 3. The seeds of time: student theatre and the drama of Shakespeare's contemporaries / Jeremy Lopez -- 4. The performance of early modern drama at Shakespeare's Globe / Farah Karim-Cooper -- 5. Shakespeare's contemporaries at the Royal Shakespeare Company / Coen Heijes -- 6. The actors' Renaissance season at the Blackfriars Playhouse / Jacquelyn Bessell -- 7. Dido, Queen of Carthage: site-specific Marlowe / Rebecca McCutcheon and Sarah Thom -- 8. 'A freshly creepy reality': Jacobean tragedy and realist acting on the contemporary stage / Roberta Barker -- 9. Early modern drama on screen / Pascale Aebischer -- 10. Letting the dead come out to dance: an embodied and spatial approach to teaching early modern drama / Jonathan Heron, Nicholas Monk and Paul Prescott -- Appendices: 1. Professional productions of early modern drama in the UK and USA, 1960-2010 / Karin Brown; 2. Performances of early modern drama at academic institutions since 1909 / Jeremy Lopez; 3. Performances of early modern plays by amateur and student groups since 1887 / Jeremy Lopez.