1st Edition

Ben Jonson and Theatre Performance, Practice and Theory

Edited By Richard Cave, Elizabeth Schafer, Brian Woolland Copyright 1999
238 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

Ben Jonson and Theatre is an investigation and celebration of Jonson's plays from the point of view of the theatre practitioner as well as the teacher. Reflecting the increasing interest in the wider field of Renaissance drama, this book bridges the theory/practice divide by debating how Jonson's drama operates in performance. Ben Jonson and Theatre includes: * discussions with and between... Read more
List of illustrations, Notes on contributors, Acknowledgements, Preface, Induction, PART I Ben Jonson and the theatre (as it is and as it might be), Interlude I Sam Mendes talks to Brian Woolland, PART II Working with Jonson, Interlude II Genista McIntosh: Casting and marketing Jonson, PART III Marginalised Jonsons, Bibliography

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Richard Cave, Elizabeth Schafer, Brian Woolland

'would suit advanced undergraduate or postgraduate students' - Gabriel Egan

'It will be useful to students and lecturers looking for ways into the works of Jonson, and particularly to those wishing to focus on questions of performance. And, very importantly, it gives a sense of the energy and outrageousness locked up in his texts.' - Lisa Hopkins, Early Modern Literary Studies