Performing Early Modern Drama Beyond Shakespeare

Performing Early Modern Drama Beyond Shakespeare
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 169
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ISBN-10 : 9781108897754
ISBN-13 : 1108897754
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Book Synopsis Performing Early Modern Drama Beyond Shakespeare by : Harry R. McCarthy

Download or read book Performing Early Modern Drama Beyond Shakespeare written by Harry R. McCarthy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element provides the first in-depth study of the present-day all-boy company, Edward's Boys, who are based at King Edward VI School ('Shakespeare's School') in Stratford-upon-Avon. Since 2005, the company has produced a wide array of early modern plays, providing the most substantial repertory of early modern drama available for examination by scholars. The Element provides a comprehensive account of the company's practices, drawing on extensive rehearsal and performance observation, evidence from the company's archive, and interviews with actors and key company personnel. The Element takes account of the company's particular educational and strongly interpersonal environment, suggesting that these factors have a distinctive shaping force on their performance practice. In the hands of Edward's Boys, the Element argues, early modern drama becomes the source of company creation, ensemble practice, and virtuosic physical play, inviting us to reimagine what it means – and takes – to perform these plays today.


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