Author's pen and actor's voice : playing and writing in Shakespeare's theatre /
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,...
| Основен автор: | Weimann, Robert. |
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| Други автори: | Higbee, Helen., West, William. |
| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2000.
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| Серия: |
Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ;
39. |
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| Онлайн достъп: |
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Author's pen and actor's voice. |
Съдържание:
- 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'.