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Shakespeare in the Theatre: Sir William Davenant and the Duke's Company - by Amanda Eubanks Winkler & Richard Schoch (Hardcover)
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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.
- About the Author: Amanda Eubanks Winkler is Professor of music history and cultures at Syracuse University, USA.
- 232 Pages
- Literary Criticism, Shakespeare
- Series Name: Shakespeare in the Theatre
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About the Book
"Winkler and Schoch reveals how - and why - the first generation to stage Shakespeare after Shakespeare's lifetime changed absolutely everything. As leader of the Duke's Company, Davenant's influence on its approach to Shakespeare was profound and lasting. This 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"--Book Synopsis
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 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.
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Queen's University Belfast.About the Author
Amanda Eubanks Winkler is Professor of music history and cultures at Syracuse University, USA. She has published extensively on the Restoration music and theatre and is the author of Music, Dance, and Drama in Early Modern English Schools (2020) and O Let Us Howle Some Heavy Note: Music for Witches, the Melancholic and the Mad on the Seventeenth-Century English Stage (2006). She has edited two volumes of Restoration theatre music (John Eccles's Incidental Music, 2015; Music for Macbeth, 2004) and recently edited the collection Beyond Boundaries: Rethinking Music Circulation in Early Modern England (2017). From 2017-2020 she was the Co-Investigator for 'Performing Restoration Shakespeare'.
Richard Schoch is Professor of drama at Queen's University Belfast, UK. He is the author of Writing the History of the British Stage, 1660-1900 (2016), Queen Victoria and the Theatre of her Age (2004), Not Shakespeare (2002) and Shakespeare's Victorian Stage (1998). For the Arden series Great Shakespeareans, he edited the prize-winning volume Macready, Booth, Terry, Irving (2010). From 2017-2020 he has been Principal Investigator for 'Performing Restoration Shakespeare', a practice-based research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Shakespeare Quarterly and Shakespeare Bulletin.