The Play’s the Thing: Elizabethan Acting Style and Stage Conventions

<p>Episode 110:</p><p>The problems of the lack of evidence about conventions and acting style.</p><p>How a player learned his craft.</p><p>The rhetorical or performance style of acting.</p><p>Theatre as a poetic form.</p><p>The rhetorical style is overtaken by a more naturalistic style.</p><p>Stage sets and costume.</p><p>Thomas Hayward’s thoughts on a player’s skills.</p><p>Hayward on players as scholars.</p><p>The impact of Iambic Pentameter.</p><p>Hayward on Alleyn and Perkins playing Barabas in ‘The Jew of Malta’.</p><p>The convention of the soliloquy.</p><p>The convention of the aside.</p><p>The convention of eavesdropping.</p><p>The convention of boy players and female roles.</p><p>The convention of the play within the play.</p><p>The convention of the masque.</p><p>Support the podcast at:</p><p>www.thehistoryofeuropeantheatre.com</p><p>www.ko-fi.com/thoetp</p><p>www.patreon.com/thoetp</p><br/><br/>This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: <br/><br/>Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy