Shakespearean Tragedy and Its Double: The Rhythms of Audience ResponsePenn State Press, 5 aug. 1991 - 300 pagini Why does Shakespearean tragedy continue to move spectators even though Elizabethan philosophical assumptions have faded from belief? Shakespearean Tragedy and Its Double seeks answers in the moment-by-moment dynamics of performance and response, and the Shakespearean text signals those possibilities. Shakespearean Tragedy and Its Double investigates the poetics of audience response. Approaching tragedy through the rhythms of spectatorial engagement and detachment ("aesthetic distance"), Kent Cartwright provides a performance-oriented and phenomenological perspective. Shakespearean Tragedy and Its Double analyzes the development of the tragic audience as it oscillates between engagement—an immersion in narrative, character, and physical action—and detachment—a consciousness of its own comparative judgments, its doubts, and of acting and theatricality. Cartwright contends that the spectator emerges as a character implied and acted upon by the play. He supports his theory with close readings of individual plays from the perspective of a particular element of spectatorial response: the carnivalesque qualities of Romeo and Juliet; the rhythm of similitude, displacement, and wonder in the audience's relationships to Hamlet; aesthetic distance as scenic structure in Othello; the influence of secondary characters and ensemble acting on the Quarto King Lear; and spectatorship as action itself in Antony and Cleopatra. Shakespearean Tragedy and Its Double treats the dramatic moment in Shakespearean tragedy as uncommonly charged, various, indeterminate, always negotiating unpredictably between the necessary and the spontaneous. Cartwright argues that, for the audience, the very dynamism of tragedy confers a certain enfranchisement, and the spectator's experience emerges as analogous to, though different from, that of the protagonist. Through its own engagement and detachments the audience becomes the final performer creating the play's meaning. |
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... scenes often develop structurally a rhythm of physical tension and relaxation in actors and auditors. The opening scene of Hamlet achieves its famous power exactly through bodily contraction and release in relation to fear, stated and ...
... scene's moralistic admonitions: In these cases, a question inserts itself between our engagement and the immediate ... scenes often induces laughter. The first, humorous Romeo also temporizes as one of the boys, Benvolio's and Mercutio's ...
... scene.7 Collectively, such moments transform the audience's distance from Romeo into qualities of his character: Dramatic effect becomes personality. Romeo's dissonances, furthermore, anchor his character in the play's fatalism. 8 He ...
... scene before the ball (I.iv), where Romeo's allegorizing habit of mind conflicts with his friends' enticements to pleasure. Romeo completes his willful reading of his fortune in his misery with a sentence of doom, followed theatrically ...
... scene, for example, his old formulaic conventions of bodily thought: injury (“He jests at scars that never felt a wound” [II.ii.1]), sickness (“the envious moon, / Who is already sick and pale with grief” [4-5]), and especially weight ...
Cuprins
The Scenic Rhythms of Othello | |
Kent Edgar and the Situation of King Lear | |
The Audience In and Out of Antony and Cleopatra | |
Notes | |
Selected Bibliography | |
Index | |
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