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Double Shakespeares : emotional-realist acting and contemporary performance /
"Double Shakespeares examines contemporary performances of Shakespeare plays that employ the 'emotional realist' traditions of acting that were codified by Stanislavski over a century ago. These performances recognize the inescapable doubleness of realism: that the actor may aspire to...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Madison : Lanham, Maryland :
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Co-published by Rowman and Littlefield,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Shakespeare and the stage (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Double Shakespeares examines contemporary performances of Shakespeare plays that employ the 'emotional realist' traditions of acting that were codified by Stanislavski over a century ago. These performances recognize the inescapable doubleness of realism: that the actor may aspire to be the character but can never fully do so. This doubleness troubled the late-nineteenth-century actors and theorists who first formulated realist modes of acting; and it equally troubles theorists and theatre practitioners today. The book first looks at contemporary performances that foreground the doubleness of the actor's body, particularly through cross-dressing. It then examines narratives of Shakespearean rehearsal--both fictional representations of rehearsal in film and video, and eye-witness narratives of actual rehearsals--and how they show us the process by which the actor does or does not 'become' the character. And, finally, it looks at modern performances that 'frame' Shakespeare's play as a play-within-a-play, showing the audience both the character in the Shakespeare play-within and the actor in the frame-play acting that character."--Publisher description |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 201 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-192) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781611478440 1611478448 |