The Shakespearean stage space [electronic resource] / Mariko Ichikawa.
2013
PR3095 .I28 2013eb
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Title
The Shakespearean stage space [electronic resource] / Mariko Ichikawa.
Author
Ichikawa, Mariko.
ISBN
9781139844949 (electronic bk.)
9781107020351
9781107020351
Imprint
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 221 p.) : ill.
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PR3095 .I28 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
792.0942/09031
Summary
"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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Playhouses, play texts and the theatrical language
'Maluolio within'
'Music within' and 'Music above'
Were the doors open or closed?
'Enter Brutus in his Orchard
What to do with onstage corpses?
Conclusion: the Shakespearean stage space and stage directions.
'Maluolio within'
'Music within' and 'Music above'
Were the doors open or closed?
'Enter Brutus in his Orchard
What to do with onstage corpses?
Conclusion: the Shakespearean stage space and stage directions.