Shakespeare's Theatres and the Effects of Performance

How did Elizabethan and Jacobean acting companies create their visual and aural effects? What materials were available to them and how did they influence staging and writing? What impact did the sensations of theatre have on early modern audiences? How did the construction of the playhouses contribute to technological innovations in the theatre? What effect might these innovations have had on the writing of plays? is a landmark collection of essays by leading international scholars addressing these and other questions to create a unique and comprehensive overview of the practicalities and realities of the theatre in the early modern period.>

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• Authors: Farah Karim Cooper, Farah Karim-Cooper, Tiffany Stern
• Assisted by: Farah Karim-Cooper (Editor), Tiffany Stern (Editor)
• Publisher: Arden shakespeare
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2014
• EAN: 9781472558596
• ISBN: 978-1-4725-5859-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Englisch, England, Theaterwissenschaft, 17. Jahrhundert (1600 bis 1699 n. Chr.), 16. Jahrhundert (1500 bis 1599 n. Chr.), Shakespeare, Literaturwissenschaft: 1400 bis 1600 (Renaissance / Humanismus), Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker, DRAMA / Shakespeare