Staging Shakespeare at the New Globe

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. The Shock of the Old

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction

      • Pauline Kiernan

      Pages 3-8

   3. The Space of the Audience

      • Pauline Kiernan

      Pages 9-36

   4. Dramatic Illusion in the Open Playhouse

      • Pauline Kiernan

      Pages 37-59

   5. Dramaturgy, 3-D Staging and Daylight Space

      • Pauline Kiernan

      Pages 60-90

3. Staging History: Henry V in Preparation and Performance

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91

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   2. Preparing the Play for the Globe Space

      • Pauline Kiernan

      Pages 93-103

   3. Taking the Play on to the Stage

      • Pauline Kiernan

      Pages 104-110

   4. The Play in Performance

      • Pauline Kiernan

      Pages 111-115

   5. Revelations and Discoveries

      • Pauline Kiernan

      Pages 116-126

4. New Voices from the Playhouse

   1. New Voices from the Playhouse

      • Pauline Kiernan

      Pages 127-157

5. Back Matter

   Pages 158-175

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What have we learned from the first experiments performed at the reconstructed Globe on Bankside? What light have recent productions shed on the way Shakespeare intended his plays to be seen? Written by the Leverhulme Fellow appointed to study and record actor use of this new-old playhouse, here is the first analytical account of the discoveries that have been made in its important first years, in workshops, rehearsals and performances. It shows how actors, directors and playgoers have responded to the demands of 'historical' constraints (and unexpected freedoms) to provide valuable new insights into the dynamics of Elizabethan theatre.

• stage
• theatre
• William Shakespeare
• British and Irish Literature

'This book will act as a good interim guide to our experience of the new Globe, valuable for scholars and theatre goers.' - Times Higher Education Supplement

• University of Reading, UK

  Pauline Kiernan

• Shakespeare’s Globe, Bankside, UK

  Pauline Kiernan

PAULINE KIERNAN taught at University College, Oxford before being appointed, in 1995, the Leverhulme Research Fellow to study Shakespeare in Performance at Shakespeare's Globe, Bankside. She is author of Shakespeare's Theory of Drama, Shakespeare chapters in Year's Work in English Studies and several articles on Shakespeare. She is currently working on a new edition of Middleton's Chaste Maid in Cheapside, and essays on Shakespeare and Ovid. She is also a playwright and was winner of a Special Prize in the prestigious 1994 Mobil/Royal Exchange Theatre Playwriting Competition for her play on politics and the theatre at the Elizabethan court called Actors.

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