Shakespeare the Actor and the Purposes of PlayingUniversity of Chicago Press, 1993 - 325 pagina's For the Renaissance, all the world may have been a stage and all its people players, but Shakespeare was also an actor on the literal stage. Meredith Anne Skura asks what it meant to be an actor in Shakespeare's England and shows why a knowledge of actual theatrical practices is essential for understanding both Shakespeare's plays and the theatricality of everyday life in early modern England. Despite the obvious differences between our theater and Shakespeare's, sixteenth-century testimony suggests that the experience of acting has not changed much over the centuries. Beginning with a psychoanalytically informed account of acting today, Skura shows how this intense and ambivalent experience appears not only in literal references to acting in Shakespearean drama but also in recurring narrative concerns, details of language, and dramatic strategies used to engage the audience. Looking at the plays in the context of both public and private worlds outside the theater, Skura rereads the canon to identify new configurations in the plays and new ways of understanding theatrical self-consciousness in Renaissance England. Rich in theatrical, psychoanalytic, biographical, and historical insight, this book will be invaluable to students of Shakespeare and instructive to all readers interested in the dynamics of performance. |
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... important in defining his position . If one of the defining characteristics of early modern England was a movement toward enclosure and privatization of space , theater , which projected intimate passion onto a public stage for communal ...
... important in defining his position . If one of the defining characteristics of early modern England was a movement toward enclosure and privatization of space , theater , which projected intimate passion onto a public stage for communal ...
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... important to my thinking though neither in practice nor in theory is it possible to separate them cleanly . The first is concerned with the metaphysical or ontological impli- cations of the " world as stage " metaphor : life as dream ...
... important to my thinking though neither in practice nor in theory is it possible to separate them cleanly . The first is concerned with the metaphysical or ontological impli- cations of the " world as stage " metaphor : life as dream ...
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... important continuities . Like the modern actor's the Eliza- bethan player's " profession has in it a kind of contradiction , " said J. Earle in 1628 , " for none is more dislik'd , and yet none more applauded . " 13 Despite obvious ...
... important continuities . Like the modern actor's the Eliza- bethan player's " profession has in it a kind of contradiction , " said J. Earle in 1628 , " for none is more dislik'd , and yet none more applauded . " 13 Despite obvious ...
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... important Shakespearean themes , rhetorical patterns , and dramatic strategies emerge first in the players ' scenes , then disperse and mature into the extended body of the later plays . The sequence is revealing in what it shows both ...
... important Shakespearean themes , rhetorical patterns , and dramatic strategies emerge first in the players ' scenes , then disperse and mature into the extended body of the later plays . The sequence is revealing in what it shows both ...
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... important to Shakespeare that he explored its vicissitudes in a series of " flattery plays , " which in their own way turn out to be as much about theater as the great house plays . Like Shakespeare's players , the men at the center of ...
... important to Shakespeare that he explored its vicissitudes in a series of " flattery plays , " which in their own way turn out to be as much about theater as the great house plays . Like Shakespeare's players , the men at the center of ...
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