Shakespeare the Actor and the Purposes of PlayingUniversity of Chicago Press, 1993 - 325 pagini 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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... seen as analogy for the playwright's experience . Burckhardt and Calderwood see the kings and heroes in the history plays , for example , as playwrights trying to order their material and reshape reality . The metaphysical critic moves ...
... seen as analogy for the playwright's experience . Burckhardt and Calderwood see the kings and heroes in the history plays , for example , as playwrights trying to order their material and reshape reality . The metaphysical critic moves ...
Pagina xii
... seen it . More specific debts are easier to locate though more difficult to describe or to acknowledge adequately . Chapter 2 benefited from the generous and careful commentary of G. K. Hunter and S. P. Cerasano ; Alan Grob and Marianne ...
... seen it . More specific debts are easier to locate though more difficult to describe or to acknowledge adequately . Chapter 2 benefited from the generous and careful commentary of G. K. Hunter and S. P. Cerasano ; Alan Grob and Marianne ...
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... seen over and over as a " proud beggar " —embodied a paradox intriguingly similar to the one we describe today as the insecurity of narcissism . Chapter 2 ends with a dis- cussion of two Elizabethan roles which had their proud beggary ...
... seen over and over as a " proud beggar " —embodied a paradox intriguingly similar to the one we describe today as the insecurity of narcissism . Chapter 2 ends with a dis- cussion of two Elizabethan roles which had their proud beggary ...
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... seen at least two types of popular entertainment in which the performer was a victim and the performance could be deadly . The first was bearbaiting , and the second was the cycle of mystery plays culminating in the baiting and ...
... seen at least two types of popular entertainment in which the performer was a victim and the performance could be deadly . The first was bearbaiting , and the second was the cycle of mystery plays culminating in the baiting and ...
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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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