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1 online resource (xiii, 309 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Summary |
"This ground-breaking new book uncovers the way Shakespeare draws upon the available literature and visual representations of the hand to inform his drama. Providing an analysis of gesture, touch, skill and dismemberment in a range of Shakespeare's works, it shows how the hand was perceived in Shakespeare's time as an indicator of human agency, emotion, social and personal identity. It demonstrates how the hand and its activities are described and embedded in Shakespeare's texts and about its role on the Shakespearean stage: as part of the actor's body, in the language as metaphor, and as a morbid stage-prop. Understanding the cultural signifiers that lie behind the early modern understanding of the hand and gesture, opens up new and sometimes disturbing ways of reading and seeing Shakespeare's plays."--Back cover. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. The idea of the hand in Shakespeare's world -- 2. Manners and beauty: The social hand -- 3. 'Lively action': Gesture in early modern performance -- 4. Gesture in Shakespeare's narrative art -- 5. 'Let lips do what hands do' : Shakespeare's sense of touch -- 6. Amputation: The spectacle of dismemberment in Shakespeare's theatres. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation -- History -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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History. |
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Handbooks and manuals.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Dramatic production -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism, Textual -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Criticism, Textual. |
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Bibliography -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Bibliographies.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Handbooks and manuals.
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Bibliographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Karim-Cooper, Farah. Hand on the Shakespearean stage. London ; New York : Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2016 9781474234269 (OCoLC)919858165 |
| ISBN |
9781474234290 (electronic book) |
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1474234291 (electronic book) |
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9781474234269 (paperback) |
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1474234267 (paperback) |
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