Shortlisted for The Theatre Book Prize 2000
Rehearsal from Shakespeare to Sheridan
Tiffany Stern
Price: £69.00 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-818681-6
Publication date: 18 May 2000
352 pages, 216x138 mm
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| Reviews |
| - 'As Tiffany Stern demonstrates in her remarkable Rehearsal from Shakespeare to Sheridan
, it may be possible to know more about the preparations for an early modern performance than about the performance itself. Assembling a truly daunting number of instances from archives and from references embedded in playtexts themselves, Stern offers a wonderful three-dimensional look into the process
of preparing and performing plays between 1567 and 1780. This encyclopaedic study is indispensable for those interested in the conditions of England¹s early modern theatre.
' - Seventeenth-Century News
- 'One of the outstanding features of Tiffany Stern's highly original monograph is the amount of research that has gone into its preparation...The persuasive and intelligently constructed argument is its second outstanding feature.' - Notes and Queries
- 'The book goes well beyond the limitations of its title, providing a comprehensive survey of the whole process of theatre work, form the first consideration of a text to the first night and beyond...Provides a rich repository of newly assembled information for theatre historians. At the same time it offers an unsentimental account of the life in the theatre during 200 formative years, from
which actors and directors in "the business" can draw both fun and profit.' - Essays in Criticism
- 'It deserves to become a long-lived reference work.... This is a mature book, one based on a reassuringly large and diverse body of evidence, moving from Shakespeare's to Garrick's theatre with no sense of strain, and elegantly written throughout, with several good new stories for connoisseurs of theatrical anecdote.... Its wide range makes it of especial use for Restoration and
eighteenth-century material.' - Times Literary Supplement
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| Description | | - The first detailed study of the evidence about rehearsal practices, from the mid-16th to the late 18th century.
- Based on research into neglected areas of theatrical history, it plots theatrical change over time and throws new light on how rehearsal affected the actual texts of plays.
| | Up until now, facts about theatrical rehearsal have been considered irrecoverable. But in this groundbreaking new study, Tiffany Stern gathers together two centuries' worth of historical material which shows how actors received and responded to their parts, and how rehearsal affected the creation and revision of plays. Plotting theatrical change over time, from the mid-sixteenth to the late
eighteenth century, this book will revolutionize the fields of textual and theatre history alike. |
Readership: Scholars and students of drama, and of Shakespeare studies and English literature from the 16th to the 18th centuries.
| Contents |
Conventions and references
Introduction
Rehearsal in the theatres of Peter Quince and Ben Jonson
Rehearsal in Shakespeare's theatre
Rehearsal in Betterton 's theatre
Rehearsal in Cibber 's theatre
Rehearsal in Garrick 's theatre - and later
Bibliography
Index
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| Authors, editors,
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Tiffany Stern, Junior Research Fellow in English, Merton College, University of Oxford
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