Early modern actors and Shakespeare's theatre : (Record no. 1069)
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| fixed length control field | 02075cam a2200229 i 4500 |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9781472576026 |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 1472576020 |
| DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 792.02/8094209031 |
| MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Tribble, Evelyn B., |
| TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Early modern actors and Shakespeare's theatre : |
| EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | Paperback edition |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | ix, 227 pages ; |
| FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Mindful Bodies: Skill Ecologies in Early modern England -- Opening Simon Jewell's Box: The Player's Toolkit -- 'Skill of weapon' -- Dancing, Music, and Song -- The Skill Behind the Skills: Elocution, Memory, 'Vigilancy,' and 'Pregnancy of Wit' -- Conclusion: Reading Through the Lens of Skill |
| SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | What skills did Shakespeare's actors bring to their craft? How do these skills differ from those of contemporary actors? Early Modern Actors and Shakespeare's Theatre: Thinking with the Body examines the 'toolkit' of the early modern player and suggests new readings of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries through the lens of their many skills. Theatre is an ephemeral medium. Little remains to us of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries: some printed texts, scattered documents and records, and a few scraps of description, praise, and detraction. Because most of what survives are printed playbooks, students of English theatre find it easy to forget that much of what happened on the early modern stage took place within the gaps of written language: the implicit or explicit calls for fights, dances, military formations, feats of physical skill, song, and clowning. Theatre historians and textual editors have often ignored or denigrated such moments, seeing them merely as extraneous amusements or signs that the text has been 'corrupted' by actors. This book argues that recapturing a positive account of the skills and expertise of the early modern players will result in a more capacious understanding of the nature of theatricality in the period |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Acting |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Acting |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Theater |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Theater |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Actors |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Actors |
| ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Permanent Location | Current Location | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Gabriel Afolabi Ojo Central Library (Headquarters). | Gabriel Afolabi Ojo Central Library (Headquarters). | 12/19/2022 | PN55 .T57 2017 | 0159522 | Books |
| Gabriel Afolabi Ojo Central Library (Headquarters). | Gabriel Afolabi Ojo Central Library (Headquarters). | 12/19/2022 | PN55 .T57 2017 | 0159523 | Books |