Shakespeare in the Theatre: The American Shakespeare Center

The original Blackfriars closed its doors in the 1640s, ending over half-a-century of performances by men and boys. In 2001, in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, it opened once again. The reconstructed Blackfriars, home to the American Shakespeare Center, represents an old playhouse for the new millennium and therefore symbolically registers the permanent revolution in the performance of Shakespeare. Time and again, the industry refreshes its practices by rediscovering its own history. This book assesses how one American company has capitalised on history and in so doing has forged one of its own to become a major influence in contemporary Shakespearean theatre.>

List of contents

Chapter 1: Revolutionary Nostalgia
Chapter 2: A Peculiar Institution
Chapter 3: Bringing History to Light
Chapter 4: Ready or not
Chapter 5: In Others' Words
Appendices: Timelines; Performance history; Architectural History
Bibliography
Notes
Index

About the author

Paul Menzer is the Provost at Mary Baldwin University, USA, where he is a Professor of Shakespeare and Performance. He is the editor of Inside Shakespeare: Essays on the Blackfriars Stage (2006) and author of The Hamlets: Cues, Q’s, and Remembered Texts (2008), Anecdotal Shakespeare: a New Performance History (2015), Shakespeare in the Theatre: The American Shakespeare Center (2017), as well as editions of Romeo and Juliet (2017) and Doctor Faustus (2018).

Product details

• Authors: Paul Menzer, Paul (Mary Baldwin College Menzer, Menzer Paul
• Assisted by: Bridget Escolme (Editor), Peter Holland (Editor), Farah Karim-Cooper (Editor), Stephen Purcell (Editor)
• Publisher: Arden shakespeare
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2016
• EAN: 9781472584977
• ISBN: 978-1-4725-8497-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Shakespeare in the Theatre; Shakespeare in the Theatre
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; English, Virginia, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Theatre Studies, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean