Author's pen and actor's voice : playing and writing in Shakespeare's theatre /

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Robert Weimann redefines the relationship between writing and performance, or 'playing', in Shakespeare's theatre and offers a reconsideration and redefinition of Elizabethan performance and production practices. The study reviews the most recent methodologies of textual scholarship,...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Weimann, Robert
Otros Autores: Higbee, Helen, West, William
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Colección:Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 39.
Temas:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Knowledge > Performing arts.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Criticism and interpretation.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Dramatic production.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616
Shakespeare, William.
Theater in literature.
Acting in literature.
Drama > Technique.
Théâtre dans la littérature.
Art dramatique dans la littérature.
Théâtre (Genre littéraire) > Technique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Shakespeare.
DRAMA > Shakespeare.
Performing arts.
Theater.
Toneel.
Engels.
Schriftcultuur.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: conjunctures and concepts
  • Performance and authority in Hamlet (1603)
  • A new agenda for authority
  • The "low and ignorant" crust of corruption
  • Towards a circulation of authority in the theatre
  • Players, printers, preachers: distraction in authority
  • Pen and voice: versions of doubleness
  • "Frivolous jestures" vs. matter of "worthiness" (Tamburlaine)
  • Bifold authority in Troilus and Cressida
  • "Unworthy scaffold" for "so great an object" (Henry V)
  • Playing with a difference
  • To "disfigure, or to present" (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
  • To "descant" on difference and deformity (Richard III)
  • The "self-resembled show"
  • Presentation, or the performant function
  • Histories in Elizabethan performance
  • Disparity in mid-Elizabethan theatre history
  • Reforming "a whole theatre of others" (Hamlet)
  • From common player to excellent actor
  • Differentiation, exclusion, withdrawal
  • Hamlet and the purposes of playing
  • Renaissance writing and common playing
  • Unworthy antics in the glass of fashion
  • "When in one line two crafts directly meet"
  • (Word)play and the mirror of representation
  • Space (in)dividable: locus and platea revisited
  • Space as symbolic form: the locus
  • The open space: provenance and function
  • Locus and platea in Macbeth
  • Banqueting in Timon of Athens
  • Shakespeare's endings: commodious thresholds
  • Epilogues vs. closure
  • Ends of postponement: holiday into workaday
  • Thresholds to memory and commodity
  • Liminality: cultural authority 'betwixt-and-between'.

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