The Comedy of Errors - The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey
... London, in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, was a bustling urban center filled with a wide variety of people and cultures. Although most life centered around making a living or going to church, the main source of diversion for Londoners was the theatre. It was a form of entertainment accessib ...
... London, in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, was a bustling urban center filled with a wide variety of people and cultures. Although most life centered around making a living or going to church, the main source of diversion for Londoners was the theatre. It was a form of entertainment accessib ...
Rachel and Juliet - Invisible Theatre
... VANESSA REDGRAVE has had an extraordinary career which has been marked by numerous stage and screen accolades, including an Oscar® as best supporting actress for "Julia," five Academy Award® nominations, an Emmy Award for "Playing for Time," and a nomination for "Second Serve," the Cannes Film Festi ...
... VANESSA REDGRAVE has had an extraordinary career which has been marked by numerous stage and screen accolades, including an Oscar® as best supporting actress for "Julia," five Academy Award® nominations, an Emmy Award for "Playing for Time," and a nomination for "Second Serve," the Cannes Film Festi ...
Theater at Monmouth 2014 Shakespeare in Maine
... Scotorum Historiae of Hector Boece (1526). Shakespeare picked incidents from various reigns and altered the events for dramatic purposes. Holinshed’s Chronicles gave him much of his information on witchcraft, including the scene in which the weird sisters prophesy to Macbeth and Banquo. Shakespeare ...
... Scotorum Historiae of Hector Boece (1526). Shakespeare picked incidents from various reigns and altered the events for dramatic purposes. Holinshed’s Chronicles gave him much of his information on witchcraft, including the scene in which the weird sisters prophesy to Macbeth and Banquo. Shakespeare ...
The Tempest - The Acting Company
... turning up in London circa 1592. By 1594, he was not only acting and writing for the Lord Chamberlain's Men (called the King's Men after the ascension of James I in 1603), but was a managing partner in the operation as well. With Will Kempe, a master comedian, and Richard Burbage, a leading tragic a ...
... turning up in London circa 1592. By 1594, he was not only acting and writing for the Lord Chamberlain's Men (called the King's Men after the ascension of James I in 1603), but was a managing partner in the operation as well. With Will Kempe, a master comedian, and Richard Burbage, a leading tragic a ...
Chloe Preedy, `Breaches in a Battered Wall`
... however, the prologue also smoothly establishes their subordinate role, with the initial division of ‘we’ll lead you’ revealing an underlying hierarchy. They will follow while Tamburlaine, played by the company’s star actor Edward Alleyn, commands from on ‘high’: the perspective attributed to the sp ...
... however, the prologue also smoothly establishes their subordinate role, with the initial division of ‘we’ll lead you’ revealing an underlying hierarchy. They will follow while Tamburlaine, played by the company’s star actor Edward Alleyn, commands from on ‘high’: the perspective attributed to the sp ...
Back to the Future: A Review of Twentieth-Century
... the direction ‘Enter Burbage’ and in addition to the twenty-year-old Burbage, the plot of The Seven Deadlie Sinns contains the names of several actors who would join Shakespeare and Burbage to form the Lord Chamberlain’s Men in 1594: Thomas Pope, George Bryan, Richard Cowley, John Duke, Augustine Ph ...
... the direction ‘Enter Burbage’ and in addition to the twenty-year-old Burbage, the plot of The Seven Deadlie Sinns contains the names of several actors who would join Shakespeare and Burbage to form the Lord Chamberlain’s Men in 1594: Thomas Pope, George Bryan, Richard Cowley, John Duke, Augustine Ph ...
this PDF file - Journal Production Services
... the direction ‘Enter Burbage’ and in addition to the twenty-year-old Burbage, the plot of The Seven Deadlie Sinns contains the names of several actors who would join Shakespeare and Burbage to form the Lord Chamberlain’s Men in 1594: Thomas Pope, George Bryan, Richard Cowley, John Duke, Augustine Ph ...
... the direction ‘Enter Burbage’ and in addition to the twenty-year-old Burbage, the plot of The Seven Deadlie Sinns contains the names of several actors who would join Shakespeare and Burbage to form the Lord Chamberlain’s Men in 1594: Thomas Pope, George Bryan, Richard Cowley, John Duke, Augustine Ph ...
The Curse of Macbeth - Plain Local Schools
... sleepwalked right off the stage, falling 15 feet. In the best showmustgoon tradition, she finished the performance. • In the mid1800s, two rival actors (William Charles Macready of England and Edwin Forrest of the U.S.) staged competing productions, so that on May 10, 1849, they were both playin ...
... sleepwalked right off the stage, falling 15 feet. In the best showmustgoon tradition, she finished the performance. • In the mid1800s, two rival actors (William Charles Macready of England and Edwin Forrest of the U.S.) staged competing productions, so that on May 10, 1849, they were both playin ...
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
... There is much speculation as to whether or not there was an actual “Shakespeare.” Many historians claim that “Shakespeare” is actually a collection of several poets and playwrights works, while others claim that it was a ...
... There is much speculation as to whether or not there was an actual “Shakespeare.” Many historians claim that “Shakespeare” is actually a collection of several poets and playwrights works, while others claim that it was a ...
E.E.Stoll and the Realist School of Shakespearean Criticism
... nately, Miss Webster found that even ordinary people would greatly enjoy a play of Shakespeare once they realized that the play had been written primarily for them, and not for critics or aesthetes. But the well meant conspiracy against the common man's enjoyment of Shakespeare goes on. ...
... nately, Miss Webster found that even ordinary people would greatly enjoy a play of Shakespeare once they realized that the play had been written primarily for them, and not for critics or aesthetes. But the well meant conspiracy against the common man's enjoyment of Shakespeare goes on. ...
Bingo - Young Vic
... Theatre. The production was not a great success, Bond blamed the venue for being run “like a biscuit factory”; the staff and actors blamed Bond for his abstract direction and unrealistic production demands. In the 1981, Bond wrote a new play, Restoration, which used restoration comedy as parody to e ...
... Theatre. The production was not a great success, Bond blamed the venue for being run “like a biscuit factory”; the staff and actors blamed Bond for his abstract direction and unrealistic production demands. In the 1981, Bond wrote a new play, Restoration, which used restoration comedy as parody to e ...
The Royal Family
... a mere period piece, something with historical or theatrical allusions so far removed from our contemporary experience as to make the play in the least obscure. In fact, one of its very greatest appeals is to the universality of the experience of the characters so that we are never left feeling that ...
... a mere period piece, something with historical or theatrical allusions so far removed from our contemporary experience as to make the play in the least obscure. In fact, one of its very greatest appeals is to the universality of the experience of the characters so that we are never left feeling that ...
Dave Cope`s
... Some Other Authoritative Scholarly Editions The Arden Shakespeare. [Texts of individual plays with authoritative introductions, notes and nd rd commentary, and appendices—particularly useful in the 2 and 3 editions, as they are more up-to-date]. The Oxford Shakespeare. The Oxford edition has as much ...
... Some Other Authoritative Scholarly Editions The Arden Shakespeare. [Texts of individual plays with authoritative introductions, notes and nd rd commentary, and appendices—particularly useful in the 2 and 3 editions, as they are more up-to-date]. The Oxford Shakespeare. The Oxford edition has as much ...
VII Shakespeare
... links to Shakespeare plays, the links to plays written 1603–6 predominate, and the links to non-Shakespearian plays also peak around then, so certain phrases seem to have been simply fashionable and widely used. Jackson then turns to Vickers’s ascription of A Lover’s Complaint to John Davies of Here ...
... links to Shakespeare plays, the links to plays written 1603–6 predominate, and the links to non-Shakespearian plays also peak around then, so certain phrases seem to have been simply fashionable and widely used. Jackson then turns to Vickers’s ascription of A Lover’s Complaint to John Davies of Here ...
shakespeare for the 21 century: the next 25 years setting the stage
... demonstrating an unwavering commitment to excellence. Under the dynamic artistic leadership of Michael Kahn, the Shakespeare Theatre Company has expanded to national and international excellence in its state-of-the-art performing arts center in Washington, D.C. by mounting legendary productions, att ...
... demonstrating an unwavering commitment to excellence. Under the dynamic artistic leadership of Michael Kahn, the Shakespeare Theatre Company has expanded to national and international excellence in its state-of-the-art performing arts center in Washington, D.C. by mounting legendary productions, att ...
Production Notes
... Theatre feels like moving from the Globe Theatre to the Blackfriars. This shift, from open-air to indoors, is exactly the one that Shakespeare and his company eventually made permanent, just in time for the last few plays he was to write. But even before that, in fact right from the start of his car ...
... Theatre feels like moving from the Globe Theatre to the Blackfriars. This shift, from open-air to indoors, is exactly the one that Shakespeare and his company eventually made permanent, just in time for the last few plays he was to write. But even before that, in fact right from the start of his car ...
Margaret Litvin`s CV
... Review of The Speaker’s Progress, directed by Sulayman Al-Bassam. Shakespeare (journal of the British Shakespeare Association), 2013. “War Stories, Language Games, and a Struggle For Recognition.” Review of 20th Cairo International Festival of Experimental Theatre. PAJ: A Journal of Performance and ...
... Review of The Speaker’s Progress, directed by Sulayman Al-Bassam. Shakespeare (journal of the British Shakespeare Association), 2013. “War Stories, Language Games, and a Struggle For Recognition.” Review of 20th Cairo International Festival of Experimental Theatre. PAJ: A Journal of Performance and ...
Review – Romeo and Juliet: Superstar Ice
... moon of Europa where two rival companies, The Montys and The Caps, mine the moon’s surface for Earth’s most valuable resource: water. The exploits and trials of the miners are transmitted back to Earth as a reality television series where the miners are deemed celebrities. Each night the miners end ...
... moon of Europa where two rival companies, The Montys and The Caps, mine the moon’s surface for Earth’s most valuable resource: water. The exploits and trials of the miners are transmitted back to Earth as a reality television series where the miners are deemed celebrities. Each night the miners end ...
William Shakespeare William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564
... with the tragedy Romeo and Juliet and ended with the tragedy of Julius Caesar in 1599. During this time, he wrote what are considered his greatest comedies and histories. From about 1600 to about 1608, his "tragic period", Shakespeare wrote mostly tragedies, and from about 1608 to 1613, mainly trag ...
... with the tragedy Romeo and Juliet and ended with the tragedy of Julius Caesar in 1599. During this time, he wrote what are considered his greatest comedies and histories. From about 1600 to about 1608, his "tragic period", Shakespeare wrote mostly tragedies, and from about 1608 to 1613, mainly trag ...
CHAPTER IX “All the World is a Stage”: Shakespeare on the Turkish
... Bedros Atamyan and Tomas Fasulyeciyan in the reform era. Fasulyeciyan played Othello (And 1964: 21), and Metin And expresses Atamyan’s accomplishment as a Shakespearean actor as follows: “The most preeminent actor of the Armenian theatre Bedros Atamyan (1849-1891) prospered particularly in parts he ...
... Bedros Atamyan and Tomas Fasulyeciyan in the reform era. Fasulyeciyan played Othello (And 1964: 21), and Metin And expresses Atamyan’s accomplishment as a Shakespearean actor as follows: “The most preeminent actor of the Armenian theatre Bedros Atamyan (1849-1891) prospered particularly in parts he ...
Peter Shaffer. A Casebook, By CJ Gianakaris. New
... editor C J. Gianakaris. Most of Shaffer's major works are examined,fromFive Finger Exercise (1958) to Lettice and Lovage (1987), as well as his relation to other writers and diverse forms of theatre. In an introductory essay, Gianakaris describes the playwright as a '"moving target' with respect to ...
... editor C J. Gianakaris. Most of Shaffer's major works are examined,fromFive Finger Exercise (1958) to Lettice and Lovage (1987), as well as his relation to other writers and diverse forms of theatre. In an introductory essay, Gianakaris describes the playwright as a '"moving target' with respect to ...
Shakespeare Schools foundation: festival stage Director
... that schools have adequate dressing room space and know where to store props and costumes, keeping teachers and young people to the schedule of the day, ensuring SSF’s box office and seating arrangements are carried out, ensuring SSF programmes go on sale and recording ticket and programme sales to ...
... that schools have adequate dressing room space and know where to store props and costumes, keeping teachers and young people to the schedule of the day, ensuring SSF’s box office and seating arrangements are carried out, ensuring SSF programmes go on sale and recording ticket and programme sales to ...
José Manuel González∗ Nothing like the Sun: Shakespeare in Spain Today
... productive field of research. Manuscripts and editions of Shakespeare are another major concern of Shakespearean studies in Spain. Today more than ever, the possibility of a Spanish First Folio seems to be a question without a conclusive answer. The crucial point is Gayangos’s story, even though “Th ...
... productive field of research. Manuscripts and editions of Shakespeare are another major concern of Shakespearean studies in Spain. Today more than ever, the possibility of a Spanish First Folio seems to be a question without a conclusive answer. The crucial point is Gayangos’s story, even though “Th ...
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
... There is much speculation as to whether or not there was an actual “Shakespeare.” Many historians claim that “Shakespeare” is actually a collection of several poets and playwrights works, while others claim that it was a ...
... There is much speculation as to whether or not there was an actual “Shakespeare.” Many historians claim that “Shakespeare” is actually a collection of several poets and playwrights works, while others claim that it was a ...
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
... There is much speculation as to whether or not there was an actual “Shakespeare.” Many historians claim that “Shakespeare” is actually a collection of several poets and playwrights works, while others claim that it was a ...
... There is much speculation as to whether or not there was an actual “Shakespeare.” Many historians claim that “Shakespeare” is actually a collection of several poets and playwrights works, while others claim that it was a ...
Sir Thomas More (play)
Sir Thomas More is an Elizabethan play and a dramatic biography based on particular events in the life of the Catholic martyr Thomas More, who rose to become the Lord Chancelor of England during the Reign of Henry VIII. The play is considered to be written by Anthony Munday and Henry Chettle and revised by several writers. It is particularly notable for a three page handwritten revision that is considered by many scholars to be by William Shakespeare.This play is not simply biographical, because, for example, significant facts of More’s life are not described: There is no mention of his literary career, his book Utopia, or the dispute between Henry VIII and the Pope in Rome. Also the life of More is at times expanded beyond what actually occurred and beyond the sources that were used, in order to suit the drama. What the play is about has been debated, but the issues revolve around obedience to the crown and rule of law, particularly when a populace becomes stirred up in an anti-alien fervor. Even More must obey; when he doesn’t he loses his life.There are three primary actions in the drama: First is the uprising of 1517 known as Ill May Day and More’s quelling of the rioters. Second is the portrayal of More’s private life, his family and friendships, demonstrating his generosity, kindness, and wit. Third is his service as Privy Councillor and Lord Chamberlain, and the principled stand he took in opposition to the king, which leads to More’s execution.The particular articles More refuses to sign are never described, so the play avoids the specific conflict that occurred between the church in Rome and the English Church, and so then the story can focus on the issue of freedom of an individual conscience from worldly authority. This explains why Munday, who fought against the Catholic Church, would be an author of a play that vindicates More, a Catholic martyr. Munday’s abiding interest, as demonstrated in his other plays, was in speaking out against attacks on an individual’s freedom, attacks that came from both church and state.Considered in terms of theatrical performance, it is seen as effective and dramatic in the scenes dealing with the rioting, it is warm and human when dealing with his private life, and it is sympathetic and admiring as More sticks to his principles in the conclusion of the play. It is considered to be the best of the dramatic biographies that were written in Elizabethan times. Even with these qualities it would not have attracted as much interest if it were not for the association this play has with Shakespeare.The original manuscript, involving so many revisions, has reinforced the incorrect idea that the play has been pieced together or is in poor condition. Instead, the revisions should be considered in recognizable theatrical terms as a script’s natural progression towards its being readied for production.The original manuscript is a handwritten text, now owned by the British Library. The manuscript is notable for the light it sheds on the collaborative nature of Elizabethan drama and theatrical censorship of the era. In 1871, Richard Simpson proposed that some additions to the play had been written by Shakespeare, and a year later James Spedding, editor of the works of Sir Francis Bacon, while rejecting some of Simpson's suggestions, supported the attribution to Shakespeare of the passage credited to Hand D. In 1916, the paleographer Sir Edward Maunde Thompson published a minute analysis of the handwriting of the addition and judged it to be Shakespeare's. The case was strengthened with the publication of Shakespeare's Hand in the Play of Sir Thomas More (1923) by five noted scholars who analysed the play from multiple perspectives, all of which led to the same affirmative conclusion. A second significant gathering of scholars to consider Sir Thomas More grew out of a seminar that was held during the meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America at Ashland, Oregon in 1983. It resulted in a second book of essays, eight by eight different authors, that was published as Shakespeare and Sir Thomas More; Essays on the Play and its Shakespearean Interest. It is a comprehensive study of the manuscript, and states that it appears more likely than ever that Shakespeare did indeed contribute to the revision of this play. This would make it the only surviving manuscript text written by Shakespeare. Although some dissenters remain, the attribution has been generally accepted since the mid-20th century and most authoritative editions of Shakespeare's works, including The Oxford Shakespeare, include the play. It was performed with Shakespeare's name included amongst the authors by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2005.