The Shakespearean stage space /

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Author / Creator:Ichikawa, Mariko.
Imprint:Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Description:xiii, 221 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:English
Subject:Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Stage history -- To 1625.
Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Stage history -- England -- London.
Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616.
Theaters -- Stage-setting and scenery -- England -- History -- 16th century.
Theaters -- Stage-setting and scenery -- England -- History -- 17th century.
Theater -- England -- London -- History -- 16th century.
Theater -- England -- London -- History -- 17th century.
English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism.
English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English drama.
English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan.
Theater.
Theaters -- Stage-setting and scenery.
England.
England -- London.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9048189
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ISBN:9781107020351
1107020352
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"--
"The Shakespearean Stage Space 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"--

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