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Author Falocco, Joe, author.

Title Reimagining Shakespeare's playhouse : early modern staging conventions in the twentieth century / Joe Falocco
Published Cambridge, UK ; Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer, [2010]
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Description 1 online resource (vii, 208 pages)
Series JSTOR EBA
Contents William Poel. Refuting the conventional wisdom ; Poel versus the theatrical status quo ; Elizabethan history and contemporary politics ; Peter Keegan -- Harley Granville Barker. Biographical context ; Barker's Shakespeare productions ; Barker and literature -- Nugent Monck. Early work ; Architecture, design, and staging practices at The Maddermarket ; Populism and ideology ; The legacies of Monck and Barker -- Tyrone Guthrie. Before Elsinore ; The Elsinore Hamlet ; The Edinburgh Festival ; The founding of the Stratford Festival ; Guthrie's Stratford productions -- The new Globe. The quest for authenticity ; Earl's Court and the Chicago World's Fair ; Building Wanamaker's Globe ; Theatrical production at the new Globe
Summary Numerous attempts have been made in the modern and postmodern era to recreate the staging conventions of Shakespeare's theatre, from William Poel to the founders of the New Globe. This volume examines the work of these directors, analyzing their practical successes and failures; it also engages with the ideological critiques of early modern staging advanced by scholars such as W.B. Worthen and Ric Knowles. The author argues that rather than indulging in archaism for its own sake, the movement looked backward in a progressive attempt to address the challenges of the twentieth century. The book begins with a re-examination of the conventional view of Poel as an antiquarian crank. Subsequent chapters are devoted to Harley Granville Barker and Nugent Monck; the author argues that while Barker's major contribution was the dubious achievement of establishing the movement's reputation as an essentially literary phenomenon, Monck took the first tentative steps toward an architectural reimagining of modern performance space, an advance which led to later triumphs in early modern staging. The book than traces the sporadic and irregular development of Tyrone Guthrie's commitment to early modern practices. The final chapter looks at how competing historical theories of playhouse design influenced the construction of the Globe, while the conclusion discusses the ongoing potential of early modern staging in the new millennium
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-188) and index
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Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Dramatic production -- History -- 20th century
Poel, William, 1852-1934 -- Criticism and interpretation
Granville-Barker, Harley, 1877-1946 -- Criticism and interpretation
Monck, Walter Nugent Bligh, 1878-1958 -- Criticism and interpretation
Guthrie, Tyrone, 1900-1971 -- Criticism and interpretation
Granville-Barker, Harley, 1877-1946
Guthrie, Tyrone, 1900-1971
Monck, Walter Nugent Bligh, 1878-1958
Poel, William, 1852-1934
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Shakespeare, William 1564-1616
PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- Direction & Production.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- African.
Theater
Drama
Theater
Rezeption
Inszenierung
England
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781846158285
1846158281