The Arden Shakespeare Library: 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? Shakespeare's Theatres and The Effects of Performance 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. -- Amazon.com Cover Contents ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PREFACE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Introduction Part One: The Fabric of Early Modern Theatres Chapter One: ‘This Wide and Universal Theatre’: The Theatre as Prop in Shakespeare’s Metadrama Chapter Two: Storm Effects in Shakespeare Chapter Three: Performing Materiality: Curtains on the Early Modern Stage Part Two: Technologies of the Body Chapter Four: ‘They eat each other’s arms’: Stage Blood and Body Parts Chapter Five: Cosmetic Transformations Chapter Six: Costume, Disguise and Self-display Chapter Seven: Character Acting Part Three: The Sensory Stage Chapter Eight: Within, Without, Withinwards: The Circulation of Sound in Shakespeare’s Theatre Chapter Nine: ‘As Dirty as Smithfield and as Stinking Every Whit’: The Smell of the Hope Theatre Chapter Ten: Touch and Taste in Shakespeare’s Theatres Chapter Eleven: ‘Sight and Spectacle’ NOTES INDEX A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T V W Y How did Elizabethan and Jacobean acting companies create their visual and aural effects? What materials were available to them and how did they impact on staging and writing? What impact did the sensations of theatre have on early modern audiences? How did the construction of the playhouses themselves contribute to or enable technological innovations in the theatre and what impact might these innovations have had on the writing of plays in this period? This landmark collection of essays by leading intermational scholars addresses these and other question to create a unique and comprehensive overivew of the practicalities and realites of the theatre in the early modern period A Landmark Collection Of Essays By Leading Scholars, Giving A Sustained Analysis Of Theatre Technologies In Early Modern England And How They Effected The Drama Of The Time. This is a collection of essays by leading scholars, giving a sustained analysis of theatre technologies in early modern England and how they effected the drama of the time. A landmark collection of essays giving a sustained analysis of theatre technologies in early modern England and how they affected the drama of the time