UID:
almafu_9961454918802883
Format:
1 online resource (102 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781108857758
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1108857752
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9781108866842
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1108866840
Series Statement:
Elements in Shakespeare Performance
Content:
In requiring artificial light, the early modern indoor theatre had to interrupt the action so that the candles could be attended to, if necessary. The origin of the five-act, four-interval play was not classical drama but candle technology. This Element explores the implications of this aspect of playmaking. Drawing on evidence in surviving texts it explores how the interval affected composition and stagecraft, how it provided opportunities for stage-sitters, and how amphitheatre plays were converted for indoor performance (and vice versa). Recovering the interval yields new insights into familiar texts and brings into the foreground interesting examples of how the interval functioned in lesser-known plays. This Element concludes with a discussion of how this aspect of theatre might feed into the debate over the King's Men's repertory management in its Globe-Blackfriars years and sets out the wider implications for both the modern theatre and the academy.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Apr 2024).
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Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Approaching the Interval in the Early Modern Theatre: The Significance of the 'Act-Time' -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Backstory -- 1.2 Archive of Evidence -- 1.3 What the Interval May Tell Us -- 2 Candles and Questions -- 2.1 The Act-Time: Length/Number -- 2.2 Candles + -- 2.3 Imagining the Act-Time -- 3 Scripting the 'Act-Time' -- 3.1 The 'Unscripted' Interval -- 3.2 The 'Law of Re-entry' and 'Enter [. . .] / Exeunt [. . .] Severally' -- 3.3 The Dumb Show Interval -- 3.4 Scripting Stage-Sitting -- 4 Amphitheatre < -- > -- Hall -- 4.1 Tracing Conversion -- 4.2 The Manuscript Interval -- 4.3 Print Traces: Outdoor > -- Indoor -- 4.3.1 A Midsummer Night's Dream -- 4.3.2 Titus Andronicus -- 4.4 Print Traces: Indoor> -- Outdoor -- 4.4.1 The Malcontent -- 5 The Globe < -- > -- Blackfriars Effect -- 5.0.1 The Duchess of Malfi -- 5.1 Globe < -- Interval > -- Blackfriars -- 5.2 The Shakespearean Text -- 5.2.1 The Tempest -- 5.3 Outdoor Intervals? -- 5.4 Jacobean-Caroline Repertory Management -- 6 Coda -- 6.1 Performance -- 6.2 Print -- Appendix -- References -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on the Texts and Abbreviations.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108791922
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1108791921
Language:
English
