Shakespearean Stage Space

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"How did Renaissance theatre create its powerful effects with so few resources? In The Shakespearean Stage Space, Mariko Ichikawa explores the original staging of plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries to build a new picture of the artistry of the Renaissance stage. Dealing with problematic scenes and stage directions, Ichikawa closely examines the playing conditions in early modern playhouses to reveal the ways in which the structure of the stage was used to ensure the audibility of offstage sounds, to control the visibility of characters, to convey fictional locales, to create specific moods and atmospheres and to maintain a frequently shifting balance between fictional and theatrical realities. She argues that basic theatrical terms were used in a much broader and more flexible way than we usually assume and demonstrates that, rather than imposing limitations, the bare stage of the Shakespearean theatre offered dramatists and actors a variety of imaginative possibilities"-- "The Shakespearean Stage Space How did Renaissance theatre create its powerful effects with so few resources? In The Shakespearean Stage Space, Mariko Ichikawa explores the original staging of plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries to build a new picture of the artistry of the Renaissance stage. Dealing with problematic scenes and stage directions, Ichikawa closely examines the playing conditions in early modern playhouses to reveal the ways in which the structure of the stage was used to ensure the audibility of offstage sounds, to control the visibility of characters, to convey fictional locales, to create specific moods and atmospheres and to maintain a frequently shifting balance between fictional and theatrical realities"--

subjects: Stage history,  Theater,  Stage-setting and scenery,  History and criticism,  English drama,  Theaters,  LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,  History,  Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, stage history,  Theaters, stage setting and scenery,  Theater, great britain, history,  English drama, history and criticism, early modern and elizabethan, 1500-1600,  English drama, history and criticism, 17th century

People: William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Places: England,  London

Times: To 1625,  17th century,  16th century,  Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600