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Shakespeare in parts /

Shakespeare's drama originally circulated in the form of the individual actor's part, containing only a single character's speeches and brief cues. This collaboration of original theatre history with exciting literary criticism captures anew Shakespeare's development as a writer.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Palfrey, Simon
Otros Autores: Stern, Tiffany
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • INTRODUCTION; I: HISTORY; 1. The Actor's Part; 2. The Actors; 3. Rehearsing and Performing; II: INTERPRETING CUES; 4. History of the Cue; 5. Interpreting Shakespeare's Cues; 6. Cues and Characterisation; 7. Waiting and Suddenness: the Part in Time; 8. Repeated Cues; 9. Repeated cues: from Crowds to Clowns; 10. Repeated cues: comi-tragic/tragic-comic pathos; 11. Repeated cues and the battle for the cue-space: The Merchant of Venice; 12. Repeated cues and tragedy; 13. Repeated cues and the cue-space in King Lear; 14. Repeated cues and post-tragic effects; 15. Repeated Cues and the Cue-Space in The Tempest; III: THE ACTOR WITH HIS PART; 16. History; 17. Dramatic prosody; 18. Prosodic Switches: From Actor's Prompt to Absent Presence; 19. Midline shifts in 'mature' Shakespeare: from actorly instruction to 'virtual' presence; 20. Case studies: six romantic heroines and three lonely men.