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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... Sonnets , ed . Stephen Booth . New Haven and London : Yale University Press , 1977 . * Tarlton's Jests , and News Out of Purgatory , ed . James Orchard Halliwell . London : Shakespeare Society , 1844 . Tomkis , Thomas . Lingua . In ...
... Sonnets , ed . Stephen Booth . New Haven and London : Yale University Press , 1977 . * Tarlton's Jests , and News Out of Purgatory , ed . James Orchard Halliwell . London : Shakespeare Society , 1844 . Tomkis , Thomas . Lingua . In ...
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... sonnets . Trying to feel his way into the poems , Callow found himself identifying more and more deeply with the poet as lover because he himself was then in love with a fair young man . This helped , but the real turning point came ...
... sonnets . Trying to feel his way into the poems , Callow found himself identifying more and more deeply with the poet as lover because he himself was then in love with a fair young man . This helped , but the real turning point came ...
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... sonnets but which we have not for the most part attempted to recover . Recent studies of the place of the Renaissance stage and its social and ideological function have posed their questions from the point of view of the observer and ...
... sonnets but which we have not for the most part attempted to recover . Recent studies of the place of the Renaissance stage and its social and ideological function have posed their questions from the point of view of the observer and ...
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... sonnets , and who tells us something about himself even before we read the work by having chosen to be an actor . This book addresses the question of what it might have meant to be an actor in the sixteenth and early seventeenth ...
... sonnets , and who tells us something about himself even before we read the work by having chosen to be an actor . This book addresses the question of what it might have meant to be an actor in the sixteenth and early seventeenth ...
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... sonnets , where Shake- speare comes closest , though by no means all the way , to speaking in his own voice . The second part of the book considers Shakespeare's presentation of act- ing in the rest of the canon . Just as Shakespeare's ...
... sonnets , where Shake- speare comes closest , though by no means all the way , to speaking in his own voice . The second part of the book considers Shakespeare's presentation of act- ing in the rest of the canon . Just as Shakespeare's ...
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