How did Elizabethan and Jacobean acting companies create their visual and aural effects? What materials were available to them and how did they influence stagin

How did Elizabethan and Jacobean acting companies create their visual and aural effects? What materials were available to them and how did they influence stagin

(Book). Shakespeare was a man of the theatre to his core, so it is no surprise that he repeatedly contemplated the nuts and bolts of his craft in his plays and

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts on stage and screen engage with violent events

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