The English Stage: A History of Drama and PerformanceThe English Stage: A History of Drama and Performance tells the story of the drama through its many changes in style and convention from medieval times to the present day. With a wide sweep of coverage, John Styan analyses the key features of staging, including early street theatre and public performance, the evolution of the playhouse and the private space and the pairing of theory and stagecraft in the works of modern dramatists. He focuses on the conventions by which a playwright, his actors and their audience create the phenomenon of theatre and the way such conventions have changed over time. |
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Contents
Medieval drama secular and religious | 1 |
The early morality play | 40 |
The Tudor interlude | 60 |
The Elizabethan theatre | 88 |
Marlowes stagecraft | 118 |
Shakespeares practice | 136 |
Ben Jonsons comic stagecraft | 168 |
The Court masque | 187 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The English Stage: A History of Drama and Performance Canto (Cambridge University Press) Canto original series |
| Authors | John L. Styan, Styan, John Louis Styan |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1996 |
| ISBN | 0521556368, 9780521556361 |
| Length | 432 pages |
| Subjects | › › Drama / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Performing Arts / Theater / General Performing Arts / Theater / History & Criticism |
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