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oapen-20.500.12657-588442022-10-15T03:24:52Z Shakespeare in the Theatre: Sir William Davenant and the Duke’s Company Winkler, Amanda Eubanks Schoch, Richard early modern theatre restoration theatre restoration Shakespeare adaptation bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSG Literary studies: plays & playwrights::DSGS Shakespeare studies & criticism bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AN Theatre studies::ANF Theatre direction & production Eubanks Winkler and Schoch reveal how – and why – the first generation to stage Shakespeare after Shakespeare’s lifetime changed absolutely everything. Founder of the Duke’s Company, Sir William Davenant influenced how Shakespeare was performed in a profound and lasting way. This open access book provides the first performance-based account of Restoration Shakespeare, exploring the precursors to Davenant’s approach to Restoration Shakespeare, the cultural context of Restoration theatre, the theatre spaces in which the Duke’s Company performed, Davenant’s adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays, acting styles, and the lasting legacy of Davenant’s approach to staging Shakespeare. The eBook editions of this work are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Queens University Belfast. 2022-10-14T14:54:50Z 2022-10-14T14:54:50Z 2021 book ONIX_20221014_9781350130593_175 9781350130593 9781350130586 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58844 eng Shakespeare in the Theatre application/pdf n/a 9781350130593.pdf Bloomsbury Academic The Arden Shakespeare 10.5040/9781350130609 10.5040/9781350130609 066d8288-86e4-4745-ad2c-4fa54a6b9b7b 9781350130593 9781350130586 The Arden Shakespeare 232 London open access
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Eubanks Winkler and Schoch reveal how – and why – the first generation to stage Shakespeare after Shakespeare’s lifetime changed absolutely everything. Founder of the Duke’s Company, Sir William Davenant influenced how Shakespeare was performed in a profound and lasting way. This open access book provides the first performance-based account of Restoration Shakespeare, exploring the precursors to Davenant’s approach to Restoration Shakespeare, the cultural context of Restoration theatre, the theatre spaces in which the Duke’s Company performed, Davenant’s adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays, acting styles, and the lasting legacy of Davenant’s approach to staging Shakespeare. The eBook editions of this work are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Queens University Belfast.
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