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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... Hamlet's Pockets : Problems with Stage Directions 192 WILLIAM PROCTOR WILLIAMS A Joke and a Crux in Hamlet Q2 200 ALBERT BRAUNMULLER The Single Performance of Hamlet that Changed Theater History 206 BARRY GAINES A Discourse on the Witty ...
... Hamlet's Pockets : Problems with Stage Directions 192 WILLIAM PROCTOR WILLIAMS A Joke and a Crux in Hamlet Q2 200 ALBERT BRAUNMULLER The Single Performance of Hamlet that Changed Theater History 206 BARRY GAINES A Discourse on the Witty ...
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... Hamlet with ramifications for future editions and performances of the work . Barry Gaines takes on Hamlet from the angle of performance history ; he argues that a 1937 impromptu performance of Hamlet in an Elsi- nore ballroom sparked ...
... Hamlet with ramifications for future editions and performances of the work . Barry Gaines takes on Hamlet from the angle of performance history ; he argues that a 1937 impromptu performance of Hamlet in an Elsi- nore ballroom sparked ...
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... Hamlet , displacing the adult players , since he was their landlord and was making money from them . But by 1608 the boy company was in deep trouble , and in Au- gust , during a long closure because of plague , Richard retrieved the ...
... Hamlet , displacing the adult players , since he was their landlord and was making money from them . But by 1608 the boy company was in deep trouble , and in Au- gust , during a long closure because of plague , Richard retrieved the ...
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... Hamlet a little when he was pursuing Laertes . Some troubles developed later on with the management setup , because a share in the " house " or playhouse could be inherited , whereas a share in the company could not , and the divergent ...
... Hamlet a little when he was pursuing Laertes . Some troubles developed later on with the management setup , because a share in the " house " or playhouse could be inherited , whereas a share in the company could not , and the divergent ...
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... Hamlet . these notes Reynoldo . I will my Lord . My Lord , I did intend it . Of his Rehaviour . I , very well my Lord . -marke this Reynoldo ? -youth and liberty . As gaming my Lord . My Lord that would dishonour him . But my good Lord ...
... Hamlet . these notes Reynoldo . I will my Lord . My Lord , I did intend it . Of his Rehaviour . I , very well my Lord . -marke this Reynoldo ? -youth and liberty . As gaming my Lord . My Lord that would dishonour him . But my good Lord ...
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Page 221 - All schooldays' friendship, childhood innocence? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods 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...
Page 192 - My tables, — meet it is, I set it down, That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain; At least, I am sure, it may be so in Denmark : [ Writing. So, uncle, there you are. Now to my word ; It is, Adieu, adieu ! remember me.
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...
Page 163 - If music be the food of love, play on ; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.
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...
Page 65 - I found excellent meat and drink o" the table ; my clothes were never worn out, but next morning a tailor brought me a new suit: and without question it will be so ever; use makes perfectness.
Page 205 - Thou mayst lie chaste now. It were fine, methinks, To have thee seen at revels, forgetful feasts, And unclean brothels; sure 'twould fright the sinner, And make him a good coward, put...
Page 114 - Ernst H. Kantorowicz, The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Mediaeval Political Theology (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1957), p.