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Reimagining Shakespeare's Playhouse - Early Modern Staging Conventions in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
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Reimagining Shakespeare's Playhouse - Early Modern Staging Conventions in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
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An examination of the recreation of Renaissance staging traditions
in modern performances. `Provocative, very readable, and extremely
widely researched; it will be an important intervention in many
ongoing debates.' LUCY MUNRO, Senior Lecturer in English, Keele
University Numerous attempts have been made in the modern and
postmodern era to recreate the staging conventions of Shakespeare's
theatre, from William Poel to the founders of the New Globe. This
volume examines the work of these directors, analysing their
practical successes and failures; it also engages with the
ideological critiques of early modern staging advanced by scholars
such as W.B. Worthen and Ric Knowles. The author argues that rather
than indulging in archaism for its own sake, the movementlooked
backward in a progressive attempt to address the challenges of the
twentieth century. The book begins with a re-examination of the
conventional view of Poel as an antiquarian crank. Subsequent
chapters are devoted toHarley Granville Barker and Nugent Monck;
the author argues that while Barker's major contribution was the
dubious achievement of establishing the movement's reputation as an
essentially literary phenomenon, Monck took the first tentative
steps toward an architectural reimagining of modern performance
spaces, an advance which led to later triumphs in early modern
staging. The book then traces the sporadic and irregular
development of Tyrone Guthrie's commitment to early modern
practices. The final chapter looks at how competing historical
theories of playhouse design influenced the construction of the
Globe, while the conclusion discusses the ongoing potential of
early modern staging in the new millennium. Dr JOE FALOCCO is
Lecturer in English, Texas State University.
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