Though first performed some 400 years ago, the plays of William Shakespeare still continue to capture the popular imagination and are produced by numerous companies around the world. This reference describes over 140 Shakespeare companies and festivals worldwide. Each company or festival is profiled in a separate entry. Entries are grouped in chapters devoted to particular states or countries, and provide historical, organizational, demographic, and production information.Each profile describes the history of the festival or company; its organization, including staffing and budgeting; its physical facilities and performance site; the demographics of its audience and the community where it is located; and the company's or festival's approach to producing Shakespeare's plays. Each entry begins with a headnote providing essential information, such as the name, address, box office phone number, length of season, principal staff members, facilities, annual attendance, and budget. Each closes with a chronological listing of all Shakespeare's plays produced by the organization, and resources for further information.

Shakespeare Companies and Festivals: An International Guide

Londré, Felicia Hardison

Watermeier, Daniel J.

Engle, Ron

Humor & Entertainment

Greenwood

Tom Stoppard (Modern Literature Series)

Literature & Fiction

UNKNO

Close readings of William's published plays present the plays as vehicles primarily for the stage, drawing attention to Williams's sensitivity to their ultimate performance and his concern with lighting, sound, music, and costume effects

Tennessee Williams (World Dramatists)

Briefly surveys the life of Federico Garcia Lorca and examines the development of his poetry, plays, music, painting, and drawing

Federico Garcia Lorca (Literature & Life)

World Literature

Tennessee Williams

Frederick Ungar A Book

The fifty-year period from 1880 to 1929 is the richest era for theater in American history, certainly in the great number of plays produced and artists who contributed significantly, but also in the centrality of theater in the lives of Americans. As the impact of European modernism began to gradually seep into American theater during the 1880s and quite importantly in the 1890s, more traditional forms of theater gave way to futurism, symbolism, surrealism, and expressionism. American playwrights like Eugene O'Neill, George Kelly, Elmer Rice, Philip Barry, and George S. Kaufman ushered in the Golden Age of American drama.The Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Modernism focuses on legitimate drama, both as influenced by European modernism and as impacted by the popular entertainment that also enlivened the era. This is accomplished through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced entries on plays; music; playwrights; great performers like Maude Adams, Otis Skinner, Julia Marlowe, and E.H. Sothern; producers like David Belasco, Daniel Frohman, and Florenz Ziegfield; critics; architects; designers; and costumes.

Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Modernism (Volume 23) (Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts, 23)

FISHER, JAMES

History

Scarecrow Press

Love's Labour's Lost: Critical Essays (Shakespeare Criticism)

This anthology examines Love's Labours Lost from a variety of perspectives and through a wide range of materials. Selections discuss the play in terms of historical context, dating, and sources; character analysis; comic elements and verbal conceits; evidence of authorship; performance analysis; and feminist interpretations. Alongside theater reviews, production photographs, and critical commentary, the volume also includes essays written by practicing theater artists who have worked on the play. An index by name, literary work, and concept rounds out this valuable resource.

Dramas & Plays

Routledge

The History of World Theater: From the English Restoration to the Present

"Amply illustrated... and... easily read and understood.... A carefully conceived and well-written history of theater". -- Choice

Continuum Intl Pub Group

All the world's a stage. Yet the multicultural dimension of our own continent's stage has largely remained an untold story. It begins with the ancient traditions of Mexican and Native U.S. and Canadian societies, for whom theater was religious expression. The first Caribbean theater, the theater of New France (Quebec), and the stage of the American colonies followed.
In this comprehensive and magisterial History of North American Theater, Felicia Hardison Londre and Daniel Watermeier chronicle these cultures, in addition to all the great playwrights and drama from 17th-century Mexico to minstrelsy and vaudeville, down to Broadway and the experimental theaters of our own time. Enhancing this majestic story are 300 illustrations depicting the full range and richness of the American theatrical heritage.

The History of North American Theater: From Pre-Columbian Times to the Present

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

The Continuum Publishing Company

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