Keenan Restoration Staging, 1660–74

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-06469-5
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 234 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama

Restoration Staging 1660-74 cuts through received notions of Restoration theatre and drama to read early plays in their original theatrical contexts. Tim Keenan demonstrates that these oft-ignored play texts encode more information about their own performance at specific theatres than has hitherto been recovered.

Through careful analysis of the stage directions, scene headings, and performance clues embedded throughout these play texts, Keenan builds a radical new model of early Restoration staging. After demonstrating its efficacy with all new plays in the period, this model is applied as a tool to illuminate the long-standing critical problems in the field. Restoration Staging focuses on physical staging at the three early theatres operating in the first years of the Restoration: Vere Street, Bridges Street, and Lincoln’s Inn Fields.

Restoration Staging, 1660-74 takes account of all extant new plays written for or premiered at those theatres, focusing on scenic production at the last two to present an in-depth reassessment of early Restoration drama.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Keenan, Tim

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of figures

List of tables

Theatrical terms and definitions

Historical note

Introduction

1. Interpreting Restoration Drama: some facts and fictions

2. Visualising Restoration Staging

3. Modelling the Lincoln’s Inn Fields stage

4. Testing the Model 1: Analysing the Plays, 1661–74

5. Testing the Model 2: Exceptional Staging Demand

6. Applying the model: cracking the codes

7. Developing a scenic dramaturgy

8. Conclusion: the plays and the model

Works cited

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tim Keenan is Lecturer in Drama (Shakespeare and the Classics) at Liverpool Hope University, and Honorary Research Fellow, University of Seville Restoration Comedy Project.