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Early modern actors and Shakespeare's theatre : thinking with the body
- Title
- Early modern actors and Shakespeare's theatre : thinking with the body / Evelyn Tribble.
- Author
- Tribble, Evelyn B.
- Publication
- London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.
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- Description
- ix, 227 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- What skills did Shakespeare's actors bring to their craft? How do these skills differ from those of contemporary actors?" This volume "examines the 'toolkit' of the early modern player and suggests new readings of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries through the lens of their many skills.Theatre is an ephemeral medium. Little remains to us of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries: some printed texts, scattered documents and records, and a few scraps of description, praise, and detraction. Because most of what survives are printed playbooks, students of English theatre find it easy to forget that much of what happened on the early modern stage took place within the gaps of written language: the implicit or explicit calls for fights, dances, military formations, feats of physical skill, song, and clowning. Theatre historians and textual editors have often ignored or denigrated such moments, seeing them merely as extraneous amusements or signs that the text has been 'corrupted' by actors. This book argues that recapturing a positive account of the skills and expertise of the early modern players will result in a more capacious understanding of the nature of theatricality in the period.
- Series Statement
- The Arden Shakespeare
- Uniform Title
- Arden Shakespeare (Critical studies)
- Alternative Title
- Early modern actors & Shakespeare's theatre
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-215) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- The Moving Body -- 'Skill of Weapon' -- The Art of Dance -- The Skills behind the Skills: Variety and Overtopping -- Conclusions: Reconstructing Skill.
- Call Number
- MWEQ 17-1778
- ISBN
- 9781472576033
- 1472576039
- OCLC
- 976193299
- Author
- Tribble, Evelyn B., author.
- Title
- Early modern actors and Shakespeare's theatre : thinking with the body / Evelyn Tribble.
- Publisher
- London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- The Arden ShakespeareArden Shakespeare (Critical studies)
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-215) and index.
- Cover Title
- Early modern actors & Shakespeare's theatre
- Other Form:
- Online version: Tribble, Evelyn B. Early modern actors and Shakespeare's theatre : thinking with the body. London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017 9781472576057 (OCoLC)965825696
- Research Call Number
- MWEQ 17-1778