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1 online resource (xiii, 298 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 39
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Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 39.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-288) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: conjunctures and concepts -- Performance and authority in Hamlet (1603) -- A new agenda for authority -- "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) -- "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 -- 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'. |
| Summary |
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, performance theory, and film interpretation, and offers a new approach to understanding Shakespeare. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge and learning -- Performing arts.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. |
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Performing arts. |
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Dramatic production.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. |
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Shakespeare, William. |
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Theater in literature.
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Theater in literature. |
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Acting in literature.
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Acting in literature. |
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Drama -- Technique.
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Drama -- Technique. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Higbee, Helen.
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West, William.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Weimann, Robert. Author's pen and actor's voice. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000 0521781302 (DLC) 99087468 (OCoLC)43109884 |
| ISBN |
0511013086 (electronic book) |
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9780511013089 (electronic book) |
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0521781302 (hardback) |
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9780521781305 (hardback) |
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0521787351 (paperback) |
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9780521787352 (paperback) |
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051111866X (electronic book) |
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9780511118661 (electronic book) |
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9780511484070 (electronic book) |
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0511484070 (electronic book) |
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9780511046001 (electronic book) |
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0511046006 (electronic book) |
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0511153651 |
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9780511153655 |
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1280162171 |
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9781280162176 |
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