Shakespeare''s Double Plays - Dramatic Economy on the Early Modern Stage

The first comprehensive study of how Shakespeare designed his plays to suit his playing company.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. 'Improbable fictions': Shakespeare's plays without the plays; 2. Versatility and verisimilitude on sixteenth-century stages; 3. Doubling in The Winter's Tale; 4. Dramaturgical directives and Shakespeare's cast size; 5. Doubling in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Romeo and Juliet; 6. 'What, are they children?': Reconsidering Shakespeare's boy actors; 7. Doubling in Twelfth Night and Othello; Epilogue: ragozine and Shakespearean substitution; Appendix: doubling roles in Shakespeare's plays.

About the author

Brett Gamboa is Assistant Professor of English at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University, Massachusetts. His teaching and research focus on Shakespeare's plays in performance, although he teaches courses that explore a range of artistic media, from lyric poetry to contemporary television. His essays and reviews on Shakespeare and other dramatists appear in several journals and books, and he has published performance-oriented introductions and commentaries for the forty plays collected in The Norton Shakespeare. Gamboa's scholarship is informed by his work as a theatre director, having mounted productions for professional companies and on campuses, including ten plays by Shakespeare.

Summary

Presenting the first comprehensive study of how Shakespeare designed his plays to suit his playing company, Brett Gamboa demonstrates how Shakespeare turned his limitations to creative advantage, and how doubling suited his unique sense of the dramatic.

Product details

• Authors: Brett Gamboa, Brett (Dartmouth College Gamboa, GAMBOA BRETT
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9781108417433
• ISBN: 978-1-108-41743-3
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, DRAMA / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Theatre Direction & Production, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Theatre direction and production, Literary studies: plays and playwrights