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"This is a study of the dramatic use, treatment, and staging of performed 'discoveries' - actions which the theatre is uniquely able to exploit visually and explore verbally. The motif of discovery - in the now almost obsolete sense of uncovering or disclosing - is prominent in the language and action of Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline plays. Visual discoveries are used repeatedly through the period by virtually every playwright, regardless of company or venue. These discoveries are of two different but related kinds: the disguise discovery - the removal of a disguise to uncover identity; and the discovery scene - the opening of curtains or doors to reveal a place or the removal of a lid or cover to effect a disclosure. This is the first analysis of staged discoveries as such; in it I show how and why these actions are essential to the way a play dramatizes and explores such interrelated matters as deception, privacy, secrecy, and truth; knowledge, justice, and renewal"--

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  • Author : Leslie Thomson
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Genre : Drama
  • Total Pages : 279 pages
  • ISBN : 1108494471
  • PDF File Size : 49,5 Mb
  • Language : English
  • Rating : 4/5 from 21 reviews

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Discoveries on the Early Modern Stage

Discoveries on the Early Modern Stage
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • File Size : 50,7 Mb
  • Release Date : 19 July 2018
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"This is a study of the dramatic use, treatment, and staging of performed 'discoveries' - actions which the theatre is uniquely able to exploit visually and explore verbally. The motif

From Playtext to Performance on the Early Modern Stage

From Playtext to Performance on the Early Modern Stage
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • File Size : 42,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 15 July 2022
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This book reconsiders the evidence for what we know (or think we know) about early modern performance conditions. This study encourages a new recognition and treatment of certain aspects of

Playwright, Space and Place in Early Modern Performance

Playwright, Space and Place in Early Modern Performance
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • File Size : 29,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 22 April 2016
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Analyzing Elizabethan and Jacobean playtexts for their spatial implications, this innovative study discloses the extent to which the resources and constraints of public playhouse buildings affected the construction of the

Religion and Drama in Early Modern England

Religion and Drama in Early Modern England
  • Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
  • File Size : 39,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 28 May 2013
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Offering fuller understandings of both dramatic representations and the complexities of religious culture, this collection reveals the ways in which religion and performance were inextricably linked in early modern England.

Thinking Through Place on the Early Modern English Stage

Thinking Through Place on the Early Modern English Stage
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • File Size : 28,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 06 February 2020
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Thinking Through Place on the Early Modern English Stage argues that environment and embodied thought continually shaped one another in the performance of early modern English drama. It demonstrates this,

A Dictionary of Stage Directions in English Drama 1580-1642

A Dictionary of Stage Directions in English Drama 1580-1642
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • File Size : 43,7 Mb
  • Release Date : 15 March 2001
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This dictionary, the first of its kind, defines and explains over 900 terms found in the stage directions of plays for the professional stage written by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The

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Playing Indoors
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • File Size : 35,7 Mb
  • Release Date : 22 February 2018
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What have we discovered about performance practice in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse since the opening of the intimate candlelit theatre at Shakespeare's Globe? Playing Indoors reveals the results of a

Religion and Drama in Early Modern England

Religion and Drama in Early Modern England
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • File Size : 54,7 Mb
  • Release Date : 08 April 2016
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Offering fuller understandings of both dramatic representations and the complexities of religious culture, this collection reveals the ways in which religion and performance were inextricably linked in early modern England.

Making Space Public in Early Modern Europe

Making Space Public in Early Modern Europe
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • File Size : 44,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 26 April 2013
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Broadening the conversation begun in Making Publics in Early Modern Europe (2009), this book examines how the spatial dynamics of public making changed the shape of early modern society. The publics

Early Modern Theatricality

Early Modern Theatricality
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • File Size : 43,7 Mb
  • Release Date : 01 December 2013
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Early Modern Theatricality brings together some of the most innovative critics in the field to examine the many conventions that characterized early modern theatricality. It generates fresh possibilities for criticism,