Rehearsal from Shakespeare to Sheridan

TRAMA

Attention is often given to the performance of a text, but not to the shaping process behind that performance. The question of rehearsal is seldom confronted directly, though important textual moments--like revision--are often attributed to it. This is the first history of the subject, from the sixteenth century to the eighteenth. It examines the nature and changing content of rehearsal, drawing on a mass of autobiographical, textual, and journalistic sources, and in so doing throws new light on textual revision and transforms accepted notions of Renaissance, Restoration, and eighteenth-century theatrical practice.

NOTE EDITORE

Up until now, facts about theatrical rehearsal have been considered irrecoverable. But in this groundbreaking new study, Tiffany Stern gathers together two centuries' worth of historical material which shows how actors received and responded to their parts, and how rehearsal affected the creation and revision of plays. Plotting theatrical change over time, from the mid-sixteenth to the late eighteenth century, this book will revolutionize the fields of textual and theatre history alike.

SOMMARIO

Conventions and references; Introduction; Rehearsal in the theatres of Peter Quince and Ben Jonson; Rehearsal in Shakespeare's theatre; Rehearsal in Betterton 's theatre; Rehearsal in Cibber 's theatre; Rehearsal in Garrick 's theatre - and later; Bibliography; Index

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780198186816
• Dimensioni: 225 x 23.0 x 148 mm Ø 529 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pagine Arabe: 350