Shakespeare by Stages: An Historical Introduction

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John Wiley & Sons, 15 квіт. 2008 р. - 192 стор.
In this engaging text, Arthur Kinney introduces students to Shakespeare’s plays in the context of Elizabethan and Jacobean theater.

  • Introduces students to Shakespeare's plays in the context of Elizabethan and Jacobean theater.
  • Focuses on the material conditions of playing and of playgoing.
  • Covers venues, audiences, actors, society, government and regulation.
  • Each topic is considered in relation to a selection of Shakespeare's plays.
  • Shows students how the plays and the context in which they were produced illuminate one another.

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An Historical Information 1 Stages
1
An Historical Information 2 Players
33
An Historical Information 3 Playgoers
75
An Historical Information 4 Equipment
97
An Historical Information 5 Reactions
126
An Historical Information Notes
154
An Historical Information Bibliography
162
An Historical Information Index
168
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Arthur F. Kinney is Copeland Professor of Literary History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Director of the Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies. He is the editor of Renaissance Drama: An Anthology of Plays and Entertainments (Blackwell, 1999), A Companion to Renaissance Drama (Blackwell, 2002) and of the journal English Literary Renaissance. His other works include Elizabethan Backgrounds (Second Edition, 1994), Rogues, Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars (Second Edition, 1995), Humanist Poetics (1986), and Lies Like Truth: Shakespeare, Macbeth, and the Cultural Moment (2001).

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