The Shakespearean Stage, 1574-1642
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The Shakespearean Stage, 1574-1642 by Andrew Gurr
For almost forty years The Shakespearean Stage has been considered the liveliest, most reliable and most entertaining overview of Shakespearean theatre in its own time. It 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 practices, the playhouses, the staging and the audiences. Thoroughly revised and updated, this fourth edition contains fresh materials about how specific plays by Shakespeare were first staged, and provides new information about the companies that staged them and their playhouses. The book incorporates everything that has been discovered in recent years about the early modern stage, including the archaeology of the Rose and the Globe. Also included is an invaluable appendix, listing all the plays known to have been performed at particular playhouses and by specific companies.
Gurr, Andrew: - Andrew Gurr is Professor Emeritus at the University of Reading, and for the past thirty years has been Director of Research in London for the Globe Theatre. His books on the subject of theatre history include The Shakespearean Stage 1574-1642 (Cambridge, 1992), now in its fourth edition, The Shakespearean Playing Companies (1996), Staging in Shakespeare's Theatres (with Mariko Ichikawa, 2000), Playgoing in Shakespeare's London (Cambridge, 2004), The Shakespeare Company 1594-1642 (Cambridge, 2010), and Shakespeare's Opposites: The Admiral's Company, 1594-1625 (Cambridge, 2012). He has also edited the New Cambridge Shakespeare editions of King Richard II (1984) and King Henry V (1992).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521297721 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521297729 |
| Title | The Shakespearean Stage, 1574-1642 |
| Author | Andrew Gurr |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 1980-12-18 |
| Number of pages | 277 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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