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Title Ben Jonson and theatre : performance, practice, and theory / [edited by] Richard Cave, Elizabeth Schafer, Brian Woolland
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 226 pages) : illustrations
Contents Who is Lovewit? What is he? / Andrew Gurr -- Script and performance ; Visualizing Jonson's text ; Designing for Jonson's plays ; Acting in Jonson-- a conversation with John Nettles and Simon Russell-Beale ; Directing Jonson / Richard Cave -- First encounters / Brian Woolland -- Jonson as Shakespeare's Other / Mick Jardine -- Contradictions ; Gift of silence / Brian Woolland -- Daughters of Ben / Elizabeth Schafer -- 'Twill fit the players yet' : women and theatre in Jonson's late plays / Julie Sanders -- Jonson down under : an Australian Alchemist / Elizabeth Schafer
Summary This collection of essays examines the Jonson canon from the viewpoint of the theatre practitioner. Bridging the divide between theory & practice it shows how his drama operates in performance and includes discussion with practitioners
Notes "This book has grown out of a conference held at Reading University in January 1996"--Page 3
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-216) and index
Notes English
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Subject Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637 -- Dramatic production -- Congresses
Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637 -- Dramatic works -- Congresses
Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637 -- Stage history -- Congresses
SUBJECT Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637 fast
Jonson, Ben 1573-1637. gnd
Jonson, Ben. swd
Subject Theater -- Production and direction -- Congresses
DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Criticism and interpretation
Theater
Theater -- Production and direction
Aufführung
Geschichte
Kongress
Theater
Toneelstukken.
Voorstellingen (uitvoerende kunsten)
Genre/Form Electronic books
Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Cave, Richard Allen
Schafer, Elizabeth
Woolland, Brian, 1949-
LC no. 98029160
ISBN 9780203981375
0203981375
9780415179805
0415179807
9780415179812
0415179815
9786610146321
6610146322
1134680937
9781134680931
1134680929
9781134680924
Other Titles Ben Jonson and theater