Acting and Action in Shakespearean Tragedy /

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This intensely personal book develops a new approach to the study of action in drama. Michael Goldman eloquently applies a method based on a crucial fact: our experience of a play in the theater is almost exclusively our experience of acting. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Librar...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Goldman, Michael, 1936- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1985]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Tragedies.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Dramatic production.
Tragedy.
Theater.
Criticism and interpretation.
DRAMA > Shakespeare.
DRAMA > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
tragedies.
Tragedie.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • I. Introduction
  • II. "To Be or Not To Be" and the Spectrum of Action
  • III. Othello's Cause
  • IV. Acting and Feeling: Histrionic Imagery in King Lear
  • V. Speaking Evil: Language and Action in Macbeth
  • VI. Antony and Cleopatra: Action as Imaginative Command
  • VII. Characterizing Coriolanus
  • Notes
  • Index.

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