Elizabethan theatre, England

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A wig artist perfects the wig on Jonathan Slinger for the character Richard II before a performance of Richard II in the make up room of the Courtyard Theatre on February 27, 2008 in Stratford-Upon Avon, England - Britannica ImageQuest The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) assigns two-letter codes for country-coded top-level domains in Internet addresses. (See link to full country code list below.) These codes follow the ISO 2-alpha codes assigned by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) under its standard ISO 3166 in nearly all cases.

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Book

Elizabethan Acting by Bertram Joseph
ISBN: 9780374944223
Publication Date: 1979-03-01
History of acting and theatre in England in the 16th Century. Reprint of the edition published by Oxford University Press, London, 1964. (Link to WorldCat.)

Articles

Elizabethan Acting
Harbage, Alfred. “Elizabethan Acting.” PMLA, vol. 54, no. 3, 1939, pp. 685–708. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/458479. Available on JSTOR.
Elizabethan Drama
Topic overview. An introduction to Elizabethan drama, providing a glossary of important terms, and discussion of early acting companies, regulation of the plays, London and the first theaters, playwrights, and genres (comedies, history plays, tragedies, and romances). Includes a list of related books and websites for further reading. Elizabethan World Reference Library, edited by Sonia G. Benson and Jennifer York Stock, vol. 1: Almanac, UXL, 2007, pp. 163-179. Gale eBooks,
Elizabethan Drama
Topic overview, with brief biographies of representative authors, discussions of representative works, and critical essays. Literary Movements for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Literary Movements, edited by Ira Mark Milne, 2nd ed., vol. 1, Gale, 2009, pp. 153-184. Gale eBooks.
Elizabethan Dramatic Conventions and Elizabethan Reality
A discussion of the discrepancy in Elizabethan drama between what the characters are and what they do. Author: Robert R. Hellenga. Renaissance Drama, vol. 12, 1981, pp. 27–49. JSTOR.

Website

10 Exciting Elizabethan Theatre Techniques
Article on ten Elizabethan Theatre Techniques: Soliloquy, Aside, Boys Performing Female Roles, Masque, Eavesdropping, Presentational Acting Style, Dialogue, Play Within A Play, Stagecraft, and Modern Variations. Includes two videos. By Justin Cash, updated October 29, 2022.

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