Richard Schoch
Richard Schoch's research encompasses theatre historiography, Shakespeare in performance, and cultural history.
Address: School of Arts, English and Languages
Queen's University Belfast
Belfast BT7 1NN
Northern Ireland
Address: School of Arts, English and Languages
Queen's University Belfast
Belfast BT7 1NN
Northern Ireland
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Books by Richard Schoch
Prologue and Chapter 1 from 'Shakespeare's House: A Window onto his Life and Legacy' (Arden Shakespeare, 2023)
primarily on the effort, talent, and vision of one person: Sir William Davenant (1606–1668).This book is about how Davenant and the Duke’s
Company, which he founded and led for nearly a decade, performed Shakespeare in the Restoration. It seeks to understand an influential movement in Shakespeare’s theatrical afterlife, so influential that it shaped productions of Shakespeare for the next two hundred and fifty years.
Papers by Richard Schoch
Prologue and Chapter 1 from 'Shakespeare's House: A Window onto his Life and Legacy' (Arden Shakespeare, 2023)
primarily on the effort, talent, and vision of one person: Sir William Davenant (1606–1668).This book is about how Davenant and the Duke’s
Company, which he founded and led for nearly a decade, performed Shakespeare in the Restoration. It seeks to understand an influential movement in Shakespeare’s theatrical afterlife, so influential that it shaped productions of Shakespeare for the next two hundred and fifty years.
When London theatres reopened in 1660, Shakespeare’s plays were performed not as found in the First Folio but in specially commissioned adaptions. Now rarely staged, Restoration versions of Shakespeare – with added music, song and scenic effects – were extremely popular with audiences.
In this open workshop, we will explore scenes from Thomas Shadwell’s operatic adaptation of The Tempest, or The Enchanted Island, the most successful ‘Shakespeare’ play in the Restoration era.
This event is part of 'Performing Restoration Shakespeare', a three year project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and led by Queen's University Belfast.
Co-Directors: Amanda Eubanks Winker is Associate Professor of Music History and Cultures at Syracuse University. She is author of O Let Us Howle Some Heavy Note: Music for Witches, the Melancholic, and the Mad on the Seventeenth-Century English Stage (2006) and Music for Macbeth (2004). Her current book project concerns music and dance in early modern English schools. Richard Schoch is Professor of Drama at Queen’s University Belfast. He is the author of Shakespeare’s Victorian Stage (1998) and Not Shakespeare (2002) and the editor of Great Shakespeareans: Macready, Booth, Terry, Irving (2011) and Victorian Theatrical Burlesques (2003). He is currently writing a book on British theatre historiography from the Restoration to the Twentieth Century.