Shakespeare the Actor and the Purposes of PlayingUniversity of Chicago Press, 1993 - 325 strán (strany) For the Renaissance, all the world may have been a stage and all its people players, but Shakespeare was also an actor on the literal stage. Meredith Anne Skura asks what it meant to be an actor in Shakespeare's England and shows why a knowledge of actual theatrical practices is essential for understanding both Shakespeare's plays and the theatricality of everyday life in early modern England. Despite the obvious differences between our theater and Shakespeare's, sixteenth-century testimony suggests that the experience of acting has not changed much over the centuries. Beginning with a psychoanalytically informed account of acting today, Skura shows how this intense and ambivalent experience appears not only in literal references to acting in Shakespearean drama but also in recurring narrative concerns, details of language, and dramatic strategies used to engage the audience. Looking at the plays in the context of both public and private worlds outside the theater, Skura rereads the canon to identify new configurations in the plays and new ways of understanding theatrical self-consciousness in Renaissance England. Rich in theatrical, psychoanalytic, biographical, and historical insight, this book will be invaluable to students of Shakespeare and instructive to all readers interested in the dynamics of performance. |
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... relation to the playwright rather than to his audience ) , with not only explicit inner plays , but all the action , seen as analogy for the playwright's experience . Burckhardt and Calderwood see the kings and heroes in the history ...
... relation to the playwright rather than to his audience ) , with not only explicit inner plays , but all the action , seen as analogy for the playwright's experience . Burckhardt and Calderwood see the kings and heroes in the history ...
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... relation to the Other , to authority , to time , to desire , and to death . What follows is not only a reading of the plays but also a reading of the man who wrote them — the man who also wrote the sonnets , and who tells us something ...
... relation to the Other , to authority , to time , to desire , and to death . What follows is not only a reading of the plays but also a reading of the man who wrote them — the man who also wrote the sonnets , and who tells us something ...
Strana 4
... relation to the director during rehearsal and , again , when he stands alone before a crowd which can make him its idol — or its victim . In performance the theatrical confrontation takes on the excitement of the hunt , recalling not ...
... relation to the director during rehearsal and , again , when he stands alone before a crowd which can make him its idol — or its victim . In performance the theatrical confrontation takes on the excitement of the hunt , recalling not ...
Strana 5
... relation to one another , " 14 with an eye for the repetitions and distortions that pervade a text and its sources . The most compelling con- nection between Shakespeare and the charismatic player he created lies not so much in specific ...
... relation to one another , " 14 with an eye for the repetitions and distortions that pervade a text and its sources . The most compelling con- nection between Shakespeare and the charismatic player he created lies not so much in specific ...
Strana 6
... relationship — by Ulysses in Troilus and Cressida and by Julia in Two Gentlemen of Verona — each of which , appro- priately enough , is used tendentiously to affect its own audience . Chapter 7 suggests that the actor's ambivalent relation ...
... relationship — by Ulysses in Troilus and Cressida and by Julia in Two Gentlemen of Verona — each of which , appro- priately enough , is used tendentiously to affect its own audience . Chapter 7 suggests that the actor's ambivalent relation ...
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IV | 9 |
V | 29 |
VI | 30 |
VII | 46 |
VIII | 57 |
IX | 64 |
X | 73 |
XI | 85 |
XIX | 144 |
XX | 149 |
XXI | 158 |
XXII | 166 |
XXIII | 169 |
XXIV | 179 |
XXV | 183 |
XXVI | 191 |
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