Staging and Stage décor : Perspectives on European Theater 1500-1950 / edited by Bárbara Mujica.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mujica, Bárbara Louise, editor.

Series:

Series in performing arts.

Series in Performing Arts Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theaters--Stage-setting and scenery.

Theaters.

Europe.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (309 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Wilmington, Delaware : Vernon Art and Science Inc., [2023]

Summary:

"Staging and Stage Décor: Perspectives on European Theater 1500-1950 is a compendium of essays by an international array of theater specialists. The Introduction provides an overview of theater décor and architecture from ancient Greece through the Renaissance and beyond, while the articles that follow explore a variety of topics such as the development of lighting techniques in early modern Italy, the staging of convent theater in Portugal, performance spaces at Versailles, the reconstruction of the Globe theater, and Shrovetide plays in Germany. This volume also offers insight into little-studied subjects such as the early productions of Brecht and the spread of Russian theater to Japan. The focus on performance and performance space across centuries and continents makes this a truly unique volume." -- Back cover.

Contents:

Part I. The Mediterranean world : Italy, Spain, Portugal, France

The poetics and dramaturgy of light in the Italian renaissance and baroque theater / Francesca Fantappiè

On the versatility of the Spanish Corral / Bárbara Mujica

Portuguese convent theater : a proposed performance of Soror Maria do Céu's Triunfo do Rosario plays / Anna-Lisa Halling

Baroque language and meaning through the senses : décor in the royal Shakespeare company's Spanish golden age season / Kathleen Jeffs

Figuring duration and space on the early-modern stage : the very relative triumph of the "Italian order" and French Classicisme / Guy Spielmann

The garden theater of Versailles / Jérôme Brillaud

Part II. England : a theatrical powerhouse

Staging early modern drama at Shakespeare's globe / Michael J. Collins

Language as stage design in Shakespeare's poetic settings / Michael Scott

Staging character and the construction of Shylock / Isaac Benabu

Reading Shakespeare performance : Rupert Goold's violent and vulnerable staging of Macbeth / Susan L. Fischer

Part III. The blossoming of German and Russian theater

The theater stage in sixteenth-century German plays : the case of Hans Sachs / Albrecht Classen

Early stagings of Brecht's Trommeln in der Nacht (1922) and Im Dickicht (1923) / Sabrina Kanthak

Beyond western approaches to theater globalism : the space of performance through the interaction of Russia and Japan / Iryna Kastylianchanka.

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Print version: Mujica, Bárbara Staging and Stage décor: Perspectives on European Theater 1500-1950

ISBN:

9781648896668