Inside Shakespeare: Essays on the Blackfriars StagePaul Menzer The recently built Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton, VA, has renewed interest among Shakespeareans and theater historians alike in the playhouse to which Shakespeare's company moved late in his career. Inside Shakespeare: Essays on the Blackfriars Stage represents the first scholarly collection to address questions peculiar to the Blackfriars and indoor playing: Did the Blackfriars have its own repertory? What was the place of the Blackfriars in the urban economy? What qualities did the Blackfriars share with the long tradition of great-hall performances? Featuring essays by Andrew Gurr, Tiffany Stern, Stephen Booth, Roslyn Knutson, A. R. Braunmuller, Michael Shapiro, Alan Somerset, Virginia Mason Vaughn and others, the essays span a range of approaches from performative to historical to textual. Some focus quite specifically on the Blackfriars, while others use the theater as a springboard to related concerns. Culled from the first two Blackfriars Conferences in 2001 and 2003, all the essays help resituate the place of the Shakespearean stage. |
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... Chapel Royal played from 1576 to 84 ( though not in the same room as Bur- bage's later theater ) . In fact , the first play on the site may have been that presented in 1546 by Henry VIII's Master of the Revels Thomas Cawarden , who ...
... Chapel Royal played from 1576 to 84 ( though not in the same room as Bur- bage's later theater ) . In fact , the first play on the site may have been that presented in 1546 by Henry VIII's Master of the Revels Thomas Cawarden , who ...
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... Chapel to " further a queen's rhetoric of rule " ( 94 ) . Her argument claims for Blackfriars a far more central role in Tudor propaganda than has previously been thought . Likewise , in " The Westminister Scholars ' Sapientia Solomonis ...
... Chapel to " further a queen's rhetoric of rule " ( 94 ) . Her argument claims for Blackfriars a far more central role in Tudor propaganda than has previously been thought . Likewise , in " The Westminister Scholars ' Sapientia Solomonis ...
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... Chapel Children , Richard Farrant . The two kinds of theater differed radically . The large open - air playhouses , the first popular arenas for plays ever built in London , derived their structure from the standard practices of the ...
... Chapel Children , Richard Farrant . The two kinds of theater differed radically . The large open - air playhouses , the first popular arenas for plays ever built in London , derived their structure from the standard practices of the ...
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Page 221 - Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key, As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate. So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet an union in partition, Two lovely berries moulded on one stem ; So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart ; Two of the first, like coats in heraldry Due but to one and crowned with one crest.
Page 62 - Present not yourself on the Stage (especially at a new play) until the quaking prologue hath (by rubbing) got colour into his cheeks, and is ready to give the trumpets their Cue, that he is upon point to enter...
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Page 23 - Burbage is now altering, and meaneth very shortly to convert and turn the same into a common playhouse, which will grow to be a very great annoyance and trouble, not only to all the noblemen and gentlemen thereabout inhabiting, but also a general inconvenience to all the inhabitants of the same precinct, both by reason of the great resort and gathering together of all manner of vagrant and...
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Page 114 - Ernst H. Kantorowicz, The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Mediaeval Political Theology (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1957), p.