Staging Shakespeare at the New Globe by P Kiernan

Staging Shakespeare at the New Globe by P Kiernan

What have we learned from the first experiments performed at the reconstructed Globe on Bankside? What light have recent productions shed on the way Shakespeare intended his plays to be seen? Written by the Leverhulme Fellow appointed to study and record actor use of this new-old playhouse, here is the first analytical account of the discoveries that have been made in its important first years, in workshops, rehearsals and performances. It shows how actors, directors and playgoers have responded to the demands of 'historical' constraints (and unexpected freedoms) to provide valuable new insights into the dynamics of Elizabethan theatre.

'This book will act as a good interim guide to our experience of the new Globe, valuable for scholars and theatre goers' - Times Higher Education Supplement

PAULINE KIERNAN taught at University College, Oxford before being appointed, in 1995, the Leverhulme Research Fellow to study Shakespeare in Performance at Shakespeare's Globe, Bankside. She is author of Shakespeare's Theory of Drama, Shakespeare chapters in Year's Work in English Studies and several articles on Shakespeare. She is currently working on a new edition of Middleton's Chaste Maid in Cheapside, and essays on Shakespeare and Ovid. She is also a playwright and was winner of a Special Prize in the prestigious 1994 Mobil/Royal Exchange Theatre Playwriting Competition for her play on politics and the theatre at the Elizabethan court called Actors.

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ISBN 13	9780333662731
ISBN 10	0333662733
Title	Staging Shakespeare at the New Globe
Author	P Kiernan
Series	Early Modern Literature In History
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Year published	1999-05-19
Number of pages	175
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