Shakespeare's Workplace :Essays on Shakespearean Theatre

Publication subTitle :Essays on Shakespearean Theatre

Author: Andrew Gurr  

Publisher: Cambridge University Press‎

Publication year: 2017

E-ISBN: 9781316731529

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781107167841

Subject: I06 Literature, Literature Appreciation

Keyword: 文学评论、文学欣赏

Language: ENG

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Shakespeare's Workplace

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Shakespeare was easily the most inventive writer using the English language. His plays give us intricacies of vocabulary and usage that have enriched us immeasurably. This book provides a series of analytical essays on the marginalia relating to the plays. Each of them is a searching and authoritative account, packed with details, of some of the more peculiar conditions under which Shakespeare and his peers composed their playbooks. Among the essays are two completely new contributions. Altogether they reveal fresh details about the input of the playing companies, playhouses, individual players and even their controller, the Revels Office, to the complex fragments that we now have of the Shakespearean world. Gurr examines Shakespeare's own choice between playwriting and poetry, the requirements of working in a playhouse that wraps itself around the stage, and its impact on the creation of such figures as Henry V, Shylock, Isabella, King Lear and Coriolanus.

Chapter

3 Venues on the Verges: London's Theatre Government between 1594 and 1614

4 Three Reluctant Patrons and Early Shakespeare

5 The Great Divide of 1594

6 The Choice between Plays and Poems

7 Accommodating the Revels Office

8 The War of 1614-1618: Jacobean Absolutism, Local Authority and a Crisis of Overproduction

9 Metatheatre and the Fear of Playing

10 Why was the Globe Round?

11 The General and the Caviar: Learned Audiences in the Early Theatre

12 Headless Coriolanus

13 Rethinking Shylock

14 Measure for Measure's Hoods and Masks: The Duke, Isabella, and Liberty

15 The Transforming of Henry V

16 Headgear as a Paralinguistic Signifier in King Lear

The Cause is in My Will: A Bibliography

Index

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