Reimagining Shakespeare's playhouse
Subtitle: early modern staging conventions in the twentieth century
By: Joe Falocco
Publisher: D.S. Brewer
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781843842415
Subjects: Globe Theatre (London, England); Dramatic production; Criticism and interpretation; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [176]-188) and index.
Table of contents: title: William Poel. Refuting the conventional wisdom ; Poel versus the theatrical status quo ; Elizabethan history and contemporary politics ; Peter Keegan; title: Harley Granville Barker. Biographical context ; Barker's Shakespeare productions ; Barker and literature; title: Nugent Monck. Early work ; Architecture, design, and staging practices at The Maddermarket ; Populism and ideology ; The legacies of Monck and Barker; title: Tyrone Guthrie. Before Elsinore ; The Elsinore Hamlet ; The Edinburgh Festival ; The founding of the Stratford Festival ; Guthrie's Stratford productions; title: The new Globe. The quest for authenticity ; Earl's Court and the Chicago World's Fair ; Building Wanamaker's Globe ; Theatrical production at the new Globe.