Author's Pen and Actor's Voice: Playing and Writing in Shakespeare's Theatre

ISBN-13: 9780521787352 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 316 str.

Robert Weimann; Helen Higbee; William West

Opis

Robert Weimann redefines the relationship between writing and performance, or "playing," in Shakespeare's theater. Through close reading and careful analysis Weimann offers a reconsideration and redefinition of Elizabethan performance and production practices. The study reviews the most recent methodologies of textual scholarship, the new history of the Elizabethan theater, performance theory, and film and video interpretation, and offers a new approach to understanding Shakespeare. Weimann examines a range of plays as well as other contemporary works. A major part of the study explores the duality between playing and writing.

Recenzje

'… impressively detailed… The breadth of Robert Weiman's research and the depth of his thought are evident on every page.' New Theatre Quarterly

Spis treści

Preface; Introduction: Conjunctures and concepts; 1. Performance and authority in Hamlet (1603); 2. A new agenda for authority; 3. Pen and voice: versions of doubleness; 4. Playing with a difference; 5. Histories in Elizabethan performance; 6. Hamlet and the purposes of playing; 7. Space (in)dividable: Locus and Platea revisited; 8. Shakespeare's endings: commodious thresholds; Afterword: thresholds forever after; Notes; Index.