The Shakespearean stage space / Mariko Ichikawa.

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Ichikawa, Mariko

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781139840200
1139840207
9781139097192
1139097199
9781139844949
1139844946

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Shakespearean stage space.DDC classification:

792.0942/09031 23

LOC classification:

PR3095 .I28 2012eb

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LIT004120

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Contents:

Cover; Contents; Figures and Table; Acknowledgements; Note on texts and old spelling; system of dating; System of dating; Editorial abbreviations; Chapter 1 Playhouses, play texts and the theatrical language; Playhouses; Play texts; The theatrical language; Stage directions; Speeches; The use of the stage space; Chapter 2 'Maluolio within'; Audibility; Visibility; Actually onstage?; Echo scenes and prison scenes; 'Maluolio within'; Chapter 3 'Music within' and 'Music above'; The received theory; 'Above within'; 'Unseen above'; Post-1609 'music within' directions; Early public-theatre plays.

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"-- Provided by publisherSummary: "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"-- Provided by publisher

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"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"-- Provided by publisher

"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"-- Provided by publisher