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199 - Scenery

from Part XX - Changing Technologies of Stage Performance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2019

By
Christopher Baugh
Edited by
Bruce R. Smith
Edited in association with
Katherine Rowe
With
Ton Hoenselaars ,
Akiko Kusunoki ,
Andrew Murphy  and
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Bruce R. Smith
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
Katherine Rowe
Affiliation:
Smith College, Massachusetts
Ton Hoenselaars
Affiliation:
Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Akiko Kusunoki
Affiliation:
Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Japan
Andrew Murphy
Affiliation:
Trinity College Dublin
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Keywords

architectural scenic spaceBaylis, LilianBrecht, BertoltElizabethan Stage SocietyGranville-Barker, HarleyGray, TerenceJessner, LeopoldKean, CharlesLoutherbourg, PhilipMacready, William Charlesperspective painted sceneryPoel, WilliamRoyal Shakespeare Companyscaenae fronssceneryscenographic theoryShakespeare’s Globe (playhouse)visual rhetoric
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The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare , pp. 1449 - 1456
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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Baugh, Christopher. “‘Our Divine Shakespeare, Fitly Illustrated’: The Staging of Shakespeare, 1660–1900.” Shakespeare in Art. Ed. Martineau, J.. New York: Merrell, 2003. 29–39.Google Scholar
Baugh, Christopher. “Scenography and Technology.” The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre, 1730–1830. Ed. Moody, J. and O’Quinn, D.. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 43–56.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Baugh, Christopher. “Shakespeare and the Rhetoric of Scenography, 1770–1825.” Shakespeare in Stages. Ed. Dymkowski, C. and Carson, C.. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 187–209.Google Scholar
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Kennedy, Dennis. Granville Barker and the Dream of Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.Google Scholar
Kennedy, Dennis. Looking at Shakespeare: A Visual History of Twentieth-Century Performance. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.Google Scholar
Schafer, Elizabeth. Lilian Baylis: A Biography. Hatfield: The Society for Theatre Research and U of Hertfordshire P, 2006.Google Scholar

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