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Title: The Shakespearean Stage, 1574-1642 by Andrew Gurr ISBN: 0-521-42240-X Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 23 January, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An emphasis on fact
Comment: This is simply a definitive book. Rich in scholarship it is free from much of the dogma, masquerading as fact, that attaches itself to theatrical "scholarship"of this period. Gurr has an astonsihing array of knowledge that encompases all the major authors, players, companies and audiences of this fascinating era. Quite simply he makes it come alive. He also answers so many of the questions that puzzle the reader about this time. Of particular interest is his attempt to investigate the acting "style" in the playhouse and the growing schism between the "personative" school of acting and the "rhetoriticians". Please buy, it will reward your purchase many times over!
Rating: 5
Summary: The best survey of its kind
Comment: It is very easy, and very pleasant, to write in praise of this book, for it is hard to envisage that the task accomplished by Gurr - an absolute expert in the area under discussion - could have been carried out yet better. For several years now, this guide has very justifiably been accepted as the best of its kind, and it is an essential possession for all of us who want, within one handy volume, a comprehensive account of what the theatres of Shakespeare's time were like, and what is likely to have happened within them. The author's detailed, well-informed and specific work is based not only on his own formidable research into the matters at issue, but also on close acquaintance with what others have done. Everything is presented with impeccable, sensible and perceptive judgement. The book can certainly be read through with benefit and enjoyment, but repays frequent visiting whenever one wants to consult a particular chapter or to find out more about a specific issue or fact (there is a very good index to help one in this). All in all, therefore, this book is not only very informative to read, but surpasses a great many books on Shakespeare and his time by being also an excellent reference tool for frequent use. Unhesitatingly recommended. - Joost Daalder, Professor of English, Flinders University, South Australia
Rating: 5
Summary: A learned and accessible background guide
Comment: This book gives an engaging breakdown of how Shakespearean plays were performed in early modern London. Gurr gives an idea of the range of players' companies, playhouses, and different playing practices, as well as a sense of how the companies and their plays changed throughout the period. I refer to this book all the time and plan to order it for my students to read as a companion to Shakespeare's plays.
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Title: Playgoing in Shakespeare's London by Andrew Gurr ISBN: 0521574498 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 19 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life by Samuel Schoenbaum ISBN: 0195051610 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: January, 1988 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Staging in Shakespeare's Theatres (Oxford Shakespeare Topics) by Andrew Gurr, Mariko Ichikawa ISBN: 0198711581 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Elizabethan World Picture by Eustace M. Tillyard ISBN: 0394701623 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: 12 October, 1959 List Price(USD): $10.50 |
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Title: The Actor and the Text by Cicely Berry ISBN: 1557831386 Publisher: Applause Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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