Archive & Academic Resources

Text Analysis Guide
Brave Spirits has developed a unique style for conducting table work and preparing texts for performance. Download this guide to study BST’s approach to early modern verse, rhetoric, and text analysis. Chapters focus on Text Analysis, Verse, Prose, Rhetoric, and Audience Contact, and the guide includes examples and recommended further reading.

DOWNLOAD BST’S GUIDE TO EARLY MODERN VERSE, RHETORIC, AND TEXT ANALYSIS

Production Archives
Access archived materials related to past Brave Spirits Theatre productions, sorted by show and made available free of charge for educators, students, and theatre practitioners for research purposes only.

All design, directing, and dramaturgical work is the intellectual property of the artist who created it. Any use of this work in future productions is forbidden unless the express permission of the artist is obtained. Scripts in Word document format and scene charts in Excel are available for open source use and adaptation. You are also welcome to consult BST’s script edits and doubling tracks for research or production. The cover page and other identifying markers should not be removed from files.

If you find these resources helpful in your research or practice, please consider donating to Brave Spirits Theatre to help support the company and these archives.

2011-2012

THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA

WHAT, LAMB! WHAT, LADYBIRD!

2012-2013

RICHARD III

2013-2014

ROMEO AND JULIET

2014-2015

THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

ARDEN OF FAVERSHAM

2015-2016

THE BLOODY BANQUET

HENRI IV: THE RE-GENDERED HENRY IV REPERTORY

THE MAID’S TRAGEDY

2016-2017

ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

‘TIS PITY SHE’S A WHORE

A KING AND NO KING

2017-2018

DOCTOR FAUSTUS

THE TROJAN WOMEN PROJECT

CORIOLANUS

2018-2019

THE CHANGELING

THE DUCHESS OF MALFI

AS YOU LIKE IT

Recommended Reading
BST believes in smart and curious actors, those who love learning about the early modern theatre and researching critical and performative histories of the period’s rich plays. It’s through such investigations that artists grow. To that end, here is a list (by no means complete!) of recommended reading.

Performance

Barton, John. Playing Shakespeare.

Berry, Cicely. The Actor and the Text.

Crystal, David. Think on My Words.

Kaiser, Scott. Mastering Shakespeare.

Kaiser, Scott. Shakespeare’s Wordcraft.

Hall, Peter. Shakespeare’s Advice to the Players.

Linklater, Kristin. Freeing Shakespeare’s Voice.

Rodenburg, Patsy. Speaking Shakespeare.

Wright, George T. Shakespeare’s Metrical Art.

Historical and Theoretical

Callaghan, Dympna. A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare.

Orgel, Stephen. Impersonations.

Palfrey, Simon and Tiffany Stern. Shakespeare in Parts.

Shapiro, James. 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare.

Shapiro, James. Contested Will.

Taylor, Gary. Re-inventing Shakespeare.

Play Editions

Shakespeare in Production

The Arden 3rd Edition

The RSC Shakespeare

The Bedford Shakespeare