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Performing Early Modern Drama Beyond Shakespeare Harry R. McCarthy (Jesus College, Cambridge)

Performing Early Modern Drama Beyond Shakespeare By Harry R. McCarthy (Jesus College, Cambridge)

Performing Early Modern Drama Beyond Shakespeare by Harry R. McCarthy (Jesus College, Cambridge)


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The first in-depth study of the present-day all-boy company, Edward's Boys, who are based at King Edward VI School ('Shakespeare's School') in Stratford-upon-Avon. Since 2005, the company has produced a wide array of early modern plays, providing the most substantial repertory of early modern drama available for examination by scholars.

Performing Early Modern Drama Beyond Shakespeare Summary

Performing Early Modern Drama Beyond Shakespeare: Edward's Boys by Harry R. McCarthy (Jesus College, Cambridge)

This Element provides the first in-depth study of the present-day all-boy company, Edward's Boys, who are based at King Edward VI School ('Shakespeare's School') in Stratford-upon-Avon. Since 2005, the company has produced a wide array of early modern plays, providing the most substantial repertory of early modern drama available for examination by scholars. The Element provides a comprehensive account of the company's practices, drawing on extensive rehearsal and performance observation, evidence from the company's archive, and interviews with actors and key company personnel. The Element takes account of the company's particular educational and strongly interpersonal environment, suggesting that these factors have a distinctive shaping force on their performance practice. In the hands of Edward's Boys, the Element argues, early modern drama becomes the source of company creation, ensemble practice, and virtuosic physical play, inviting us to reimagine what it means - and takes - to perform these plays today.

Performing Early Modern Drama Beyond Shakespeare Reviews

'[a] lively, engrossing volume ...' Adele Mignard, Cahiers Elisabethains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies
'... a useful reminder that there is more to early modern drama than Shakespeare.' Adele Mignard, Cahiers Elisabethains

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. From Prosthetics to Practice: Forming a Company; 2. 'Making the Script Work': The Actors and the Text; 3. The Text on its Feet: Encountering the Past, Embodying the Present; 4. 'More of a Sports Team than a Theatre Company': The Ensemble in Performance; Conclusion; Appendix: Edward's Boys Productions, 2005-20.

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NLS9781108810234
9781108810234
1108810233
Performing Early Modern Drama Beyond Shakespeare: Edward's Boys by Harry R. McCarthy (Jesus College, Cambridge)
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2020-11-12
75
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