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Shakespeare´s Workplace: Essays on Shakespearean Theatre
Andrew Gurr
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Description for Shakespeare´s Workplace: Essays on Shakespearean Theatre
hardcover. Andrew Gurr's work offers the best access to the original Shakespearean theatre. This is a selection of his key essays. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). .
Shakespeare was easily the most inventive writer using the English language. His plays give us intricacies of vocabulary and usage that have enriched us immeasurably. This book provides a series of analytical essays on the marginalia relating to the plays. Each of them is a searching and authoritative account, packed with details, of some of the more peculiar conditions under which Shakespeare and his peers composed their playbooks. Among the essays are two completely new contributions. Altogether they reveal fresh details about the input of the playing companies, playhouses, individual players and even their controller, the Revels Office, to the ... Read more
Shakespeare was easily the most inventive writer using the English language. His plays give us intricacies of vocabulary and usage that have enriched us immeasurably. This book provides a series of analytical essays on the marginalia relating to the plays. Each of them is a searching and authoritative account, packed with details, of some of the more peculiar conditions under which Shakespeare and his peers composed their playbooks. Among the essays are two completely new contributions. Altogether they reveal fresh details about the input of the playing companies, playhouses, individual players and even their controller, the Revels Office, to the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
292
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107167841
SKU
V9781107167841
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-16
About Andrew Gurr
Andrew Gurr is Professor Emeritus at the University of Reading, and for the past thirty years has been Director of Research in London for the Globe Theatre. His books on the subject of theatre history include The Shakespearean Stage 1574-1642 (Cambridge, 1992), now in its fourth edition, The Shakespearean Playing Companies (1996), Staging in Shakespeare's Theatres (with Mariko Ichikawa, 2000), ... Read more
Reviews for Shakespeare´s Workplace: Essays on Shakespearean Theatre
'Andrew Gurr has spent his career illuminating what he calls the 'dark penumbra' around every early modern play ... Gurr's approach, which has influenced so much of the field, moves from specific pragmatic or historical questions ('were there three doors for players to enter the stage, or only two? What might the first players have done to cope with the ... Read more