John H Astington: 2 books
Actors and Acting in Shakespeare's Time
The Art of Stage Playing
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
John Astington brings the acting style of the Shakespearean period to life, describing and analysing the art of the player in the English professional theatre between Richard Tarlton and Thomas Betterton. The book pays close attention to the cultural context of stage playing, the critical language...
Stage and Picture in the English Renaissance
The Mirror up to Nature
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
This book presents a new approach to the relationship between traditional pictorial arts and the theatre in Renaissance England. Demonstrating the range of visual culture in evidence from the mid-sixteenth to mid-seventeenth century, from the grandeur of court murals to the cheap amusement of woodcut...