The photographic team which has put this project together has scoured the country for original venues, unchanged since Shakespeare's time, to give a reconstruction of the key stages of his life and times - the bawdiness, the passion, the perils of plague, and the spectacle of public execution. All this is brought to life through colour photographs, so that the world's most successful writer is revealed as a living, breathing person.

William Shakespeare: The extraordinary life of the most successful writer of all time

Politics & Social Sciences

GURR, Andrew

Social Sciences

HarperCollins Publishers Canada, Limited

Over 300 large color photographs of scenes staged to depict aspects of Shakespeare's life and Elizabethan theater. Gurr, whose narrative weaves around the images, was an advisor in rebuilding the Globe Theater, which reopened after 400 years in June 1996. Includes chronologies of the plays and the period. No bibliography. Distributed in the US by HarperCollins. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

William Shakespeare: The Extraordinary Life of the Most Successful Writer of All Time

Humor & Entertainment

Perennial

This ground-breaking study is the first history of the professional acting companies who brought drama to London in Shakespeare's time. Gurr draws on the most up-to-date research to provide a general history of company development from the 1560s, when the first of the major companies belonging to great lords began regularly to offer their plays at court and in London, to 1642, when by Act of Parliament they were closed down. He offers detailed and fascinating accounts of each of the forty companies that played in London during the period, including Shakespeare's company, The Chamberlain's/King's Men. His fascinating and authoritative volume will take its place as an indispensable reference work and the authoritative history for all scholars and students of Renaissance--and Shakespearean--drama.

The Shakespearian Playing Companies

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Clarendon Press

By bringing together evidence from different sources-documentary, archaeological, and the play-texts themselves-Staging Shakespeare's Theatres reconstructs the ways in which the plays were originally staged in the theaters of Shakespeare's own time, and shows how the physical possibilities and limitations of these theaters affected both the writing and the performances. The book explains the conditions under which the early playwrights and players worked, their preparation of the plays for the stage, and their rehearsal practices. It looks at the quality of evidence supplied by the surviving play-texts, and the extant to which audiences of the time differed from modern audiences; and it gives vivid examples of how Elizabethan actors made use of gestures, costumes, props, and the theater's specific design features. Stage movement is analyzed through a careful study of how exits and entrances worked on such stages. The final chapter offers a thorough examination of Hamlet as a text for performance, excitingly returning the play to its original staging at the Globe.

Staging in Shakespeare's Theatres (Oxford Shakespeare Topics)

Ichikawa, Mariko

Oxford University Press

By bringing together evidence from different sources--documentary, archaeological, and the play-texts themselves--Staging Shakespeare's Theatres reconstructs the ways in which the plays were originally staged in the theaters of Shakespeare's own time, and shows how the physical possibilities and limitations of these theaters affected both the writing and the performances. The book explains the conditions under which the early playwrights and players worked, their preparation of the plays for the stage, and their rehearsal practices. It looks at the quality of evidence supplied by the surviving play-texts, and the extant to which audiences of the time differed from modern audiences; and it gives vivid examples of how Elizabethan actors made use of gestures, costumes, props, and the theater's specific design features. Stage movement is analyzed through a careful study of how exits and entrances worked on such stages. The final chapter offers a thorough examination of Hamlet as a text for performance, excitingly returning the play to its original staging at the Globe.

Rebuilding Shakespeare's Globe

FINE HARDCOVER, FINE DUST JACKET, Not paperback. 197 pages, illustrated in color and b&amp;w. "On April 23, 1988 work began on a momentous undertaking. The dream of generations of theatre enthusiasts is being realized: the Globe Theatre, where Shakespeare himself acted and the stage for which he wrote his greatest plays, is being rebuit. This book is the story of the search for Shakespeare's Globe. Beautifully illustrated with four specially commissioned full-color drawings by Paul Cox and over 50 b&amp;w plates. This book tells the fascinating tale of the most important theatrical undertaking of our time." FINE HARDCOVER, FINE DUST JACKET.

Orion Publishing Co

Created in 1594, the theater company in which Shakespeare acted and which staged all his plays became the King's Men in 1603 and ran for forty-eight years up to closure in 1642. Andrew Gurr studies the company's activities, explores its social role and examines its repertoire of plays. This comprehensive illustrated history will be an indispensable guide for anyone wanting to know more about the conditions under which Shakespeare and his successors worked.

The Shakespeare Company, 1594–1642

Cambridge University Press

The Shakespearean Stage, 1574-1642

The Shakespearean Stage is the only authoritative book that describes all the main features of the original staging of Shakespearean drama in one volume: the acting companies and their acting styles, the playhouses, the staging and the audiences. For twenty years it has been hailed as not only the most reliable but the liveliest and most entertaining overview of Shakespearean theater available to students. For this third edition Professor Gurr has substantially revised the book, bringing it right up to date and incorporating many new discoveries, including those of the archaeologists at the sites of the Rose and Globe theaters. The invaluable appendix, which lists all the plays performed at a particular playhouse, the playing company and date of performance, has also been revised and rearranged.

Playgoing in Shakespeare's London

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William Shakespeare: The extraordinary life of the most successful writer of all time

William Shakespeare: The Extraordinary Life of the Most Successful Writer of All Time

The Shakespearian Playing Companies

Staging in Shakespeare's Theatres (Oxford Shakespeare Topics)

Staging in Shakespeare's Theatres (Oxford Shakespeare Topics)

Rebuilding Shakespeare's Globe

The Shakespeare Company, 1594–1642

The Shakespearean Stage, 1574-1642

Playgoing in Shakespeare's London

The Shakespearean Stage, 1574-1642