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The Shakespearean stage space

Ichikawa, Mariko, author

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\"How did Renaissance theatre create its powerful effects with so few resources? In The Shakespearean Stage Space, Mariko Ichikawa explores the original staging of plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries to build a new picture of the artistry of the Renaissance stage. Dealing with problematic scenes and stage directions, Ichikawa closely examines the playing conditions in early modern playhouses to reveal the ways in which the structure of the stage was used to ensure the audibility of offstage sounds, to control the visibility of characters, to convey fictional locales, to create specific moods and atmospheres and to maintain a frequently shifting balance between fictional and theatrical realities. She argues that basic theatrical terms were used in a much broader and more flexible way than we usually assume and demonstrates that, rather than imposing limitations, the bare stage of the Shakespearean theatre offered dramatists and actors a variety of imaginative possibilities\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Stage history To 1625. / Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Stage history England London. / Theaters Stage-setting and scenery England History 16th century. / Theaters Stage-setting and scenery England History 17th century. / Theater England London History 16th century. / Theater England London History 17th century. / English drama Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 History and criticism / English drama 17th century History and criticism.
• ISBN: 9781107559530

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PR3095.I28 2015	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE