Shakespeare, Theatre, and Time

ISBN-13: 9780415805872 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 170 str.

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Opis

This title investigates time in Shakespearean theatre. Wagner posits that theatrical, and especially Shakespearean, time is characterised predominantly by various forms of temporal conflict. From this perspective, he traces the ways in which time transcends thematic and metaphorical functions, and forms an essential part of Shakespearean stage praxis.

Recenzje

'Shakespeare, Theatre, and Time flawlessly leads the reader from concept to concept, from theory to text and back. It is literary scholarship at its best, highly readable and informative and makes the reader do what all good secondary literature should do: go and read the primary texts again (or better: go and see the plays again) and experience what has been written about at first hand.' - Michael Heinze, www.theaterforschung.de

Spis treści

Contents  List of Figures  Acknowledgements  1: First Breath: An Introduction  2: Time and Theatre  3: The Bodies of Time  4: Time and the Play  5: Time and the Contemporary Shakespearean Stage  6: Final Words: An Ending  Notes  Bibliography  Index

O autorze

Matthew Wagner is a Senior Lecturer in Theatre at the University of Surrey. He has written on the phenomenology of time and space in performance, specifically in the theatre of Shakespeare and Beckett.