The English Stage tells the story of English drama through its many changes in style and convention from medieval times to the present day. John Styan analyzes the key features of staging, including early street theater and public performance, the evolution of the playhouse and the private space, and the pairing of theory and stagecraft in the works of modern dramatists. Giving a critical performance analysis, the author closely examines a few key plays from each age to demonstrate how they succeed on stage. He also focuses on several major playwrights--Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson, and Shaw--and discusses their stagecraft in detail. Styan can be considered among a small number of influential scholars who have helped to develop theater history from its origins in literary studies into an independent and respected field.
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"...very informative....provides extremely helpful accounts of the various nonverbal aspects of dramatic performance in the early modern theater." Studies in English Literature
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Providing a critical performance analysis, this study closely examines a few key plays from each age--medieval times to the present--to demonstrate how they succeed on stage. It also focuses on several major playwrights--Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson, and Shaw--and discusses their stagecraft in detail.
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The popular religious and folk drama which begins the story of the English stage demands the basic elements needed for any dramatic activity: actors, spectators and a space in which the play can be performed and seen. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
proscenium doors, private playhouses, proscenium opening, medieval stage, acting area, realistic illusion, heroic play, acting space, comic stage Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Drury Lane, Corpus Christi, Royal Court, Covent Garden, Doctor Faustus, King's Men, Ben Jonson, Midsummer Night's Dream, National Theatre, King Lear, Lady Teazle, Ingo Jones, Sir Peter, The Spanish Tragedy, Lady Windermere, Major Barbara, Twelfth Night, Bartholomew Fair, Gammer Gurton, Middle Ages, Royal Shakespeare Company, Theatre Royal, David Garrick, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Lord Chamberlain New!
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The popular religious and folk drama which begins the story of the English stage demands the basic elements needed for any dramatic activity: actors, spectators and a space in which the play can be performed and seen. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
proscenium doors, private playhouses, proscenium opening, medieval stage, acting area, realistic illusion, heroic play, acting space, comic stage Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Drury Lane, Corpus Christi, Royal Court, Covent Garden, Doctor Faustus, King's Men, Ben Jonson, Midsummer Night's Dream, National Theatre, King Lear, Lady Teazle, Ingo Jones, Sir Peter, The Spanish Tragedy, Lady Windermere, Major Barbara, Twelfth Night, Bartholomew Fair, Gammer Gurton, Middle Ages, Royal Shakespeare Company, Theatre Royal, David Garrick, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Lord Chamberlain New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Dr. Faustus (Dover Thrift Editions) by Christopher Marlowe on 11 pages
- Romeo And Juliet (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (Saddleback Classics) by William Shakespeare on 7 pages
- Every Man in His Humour, Second Edition (New Mermaids) by Ben Jonson on 7 pages
- The Knight of the Burning Pestle, Second Edition (New Mermaids) by Francis Beaumont on 7 pages
- Romeo and Juliet (Penguin Readers, Level 3) by William Shakespeare on 7 pages
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- Character's Theater: Genre and Identity on the Eighteenth-Century English Stage by Lisa A. Freeman in Back Matter
- The Rhetoric of Sensibility in Eighteenth-Century Culture by Paul Goring in Back Matter
- Shakespeare, from Stage to Screen by Sarah Hatchuel in Back Matter
- Spatial Representations and the Jacobean Stage: From Shakespeare to Webster by Russell West in Back Matter
- Technical Theatre: A Practical Introduction by Christine White in Back Matter
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