Shakespeare the Actor and the Purposes of PlayingUniversity of Chicago Press, 1993 - 325 páginas 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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... feel his way into the poems , Callow found himself identifying more and more deeply with the poet as lover because he himself was then in love with a fair young man . This helped , but the real turning point came when Callow discovered ...
... feel his way into the poems , Callow found himself identifying more and more deeply with the poet as lover because he himself was then in love with a fair young man . This helped , but the real turning point came when Callow discovered ...
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... feels as it impinges on the spectator , as well as looking at whatever prejudices the spectator brings to the theater . Theater historians have been justly cautious in attempting to reconstruct even the factual outlines of players ...
... feels as it impinges on the spectator , as well as looking at whatever prejudices the spectator brings to the theater . Theater historians have been justly cautious in attempting to reconstruct even the factual outlines of players ...
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... could you get that happy feeling , / When you are stealing that extra bow . " But behind such satisfactions may lie the insecurity of narcissism in its clinical sense , a mirror - hungry personality that needs applause Introduction 3.
... could you get that happy feeling , / When you are stealing that extra bow . " But behind such satisfactions may lie the insecurity of narcissism in its clinical sense , a mirror - hungry personality that needs applause Introduction 3.
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... feel today . Chapter 3 suggests that one way to understand what it meant to Shakespeare to be a player is to look more closely at Richard III , the seminal figure , himself both an actor and a perfect actor's medium , who takes over the ...
... feel today . Chapter 3 suggests that one way to understand what it meant to Shakespeare to be a player is to look more closely at Richard III , the seminal figure , himself both an actor and a perfect actor's medium , who takes over the ...
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Contenido
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 |
XII | 88 |
XIII | 95 |
XIV | 106 |
XV | 115 |
XVII | 129 |
XVIII | 140 |
XXVII | 195 |
XXVIII | 203 |
XXIX | 225 |
XXX | 235 |
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