Ben Jonson and Theatre

Performance, Practice and Theory

By: Richard Cave (Editor), Elizabeth Schafer (Editor), Brian Woolland (Editor)

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Paperback | 28 January 1999 | Edition Number 1

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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 divide by debating how Jonson's drama operates in performance. Ben Jonson and Theatre includes: discussions with and between practitioners essays on the staging of the plays edited transcripts of interviews with contemporary practitioners This radical re-evaluation of Jonson's theatre is original and innovative in both form and content. It explores the vibrant relationship between actors, directors and academics in their approachers to Jonson. In an effort to open the repertoire to the diversity of Jonson's work, attention is given to rehearsal methods, workshop practices, design, directing, marketing, marginalised theatre history, and all these are considered in the light of recent critical theory. The volume includes contributions from Joan Littlewood, Sam Mendes, John Nettles, Simon Russell Beale and Geoffrey Rush, Oscar-winning actor for Shine .

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"This is, in short, a book which cannot be easily pinned down or pigeon-holed, and which is all the more provocative as a result. It should appeal strongly to actors, directors, and theatre-goers, as well as to students and teachers of dramatic production, and with luck it will help contribute to a renaissance of Jonsonian stagings."-"Renaissance and Reformation, Robert C. Evans, Auburn University at Montgomery "[T]he book has many strengths and much interest, particularly for those more used to studying Jonson in an academic rather than a dramatic context. Interviews with Simon Russell-Beale, John Nettles, Sam Mendes and Geoffrey Rush point out aspects of Jonson's drama in action that may be lost through simply reading. [I]t generates a new and illuminating perspective on Jonson's technical excellence and imaginative stage-craft in his writing for the theatre.."-Lesley Mickel

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List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Preface
Induction	p. 1
Prologue: Who is Lovewit? What is he?	p. 5
Ben Jonson and the theatre (as it is and as it might be)	p. 21
Script and performance	p. 23
Visualising Jonson's text	p. 33
Designing for Jonson's plays	p. 45
Acting in Jonson - a conversation with John Nettles and Simon Russell-Beale	p. 58
Directing Jonson	p. 66
Sam Mendes talks to Brian Woolland	p. 79
Working with Jonson	p. 87
Introduction	p. 89
First encounters	p. 96
Jonson as Shakespeare's Other	p. 104
Contradictions	p. 116
The gift of silence	p. 125
Genista McIntosh: Casting and marketing Jonson	p. 143
Marginalised Jonsons	p. 151
Introduction	p. 153
Daughters of Ben	p. 154
'Twill fit the players yet': Women and theatre in Jonson's late plays	p. 179
Jonson down under: An Australian Alchemist	p. 191
Epilogue to this 'venture tripartite'	p. 205
The conference 'Ben Jonson and the Theatre', University of Reading, January 1996	p. 209
Bibliography	p. 211
Index	p. 217
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