Kinney Shakespeare by Stages

An Historical Introduction
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-77692-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten, E-Book

In this engaging text, Arthur Kinney introduces students toShakespeare's plays in the context of Elizabethan andJacobean theater.
* * Introduces students to Shakespeare's plays in the context ofElizabethan and Jacobean theater.
* Focuses on the material conditions of playing and ofplaygoing.
* Covers venues, audiences, actors, society, government andregulation.
* Each topic is considered in relation to a selection ofShakespeare's plays.
* Shows students how the plays and the context in which they wereproduced illuminate one another.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kinney, Arthur F.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures.
Preface.
Acknowledgements.
List of Illustrations.
1. Stages.
2. Players.
3. Playgoers.
4. Equipment.
5. Reactions.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index

Über Autor(innen)

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).