The Players' Advice to Hamlet: The Rhetorical Acting Method from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment

ISBN-13: 9781108498876 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 378 str.

David Wiles

Opis

Outlining a classical 'rhetorical' system, this is the first serious overview of how European actors c.1550–1800 thought about acting.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Hamlet's advice to the players; 2. Rhetorical performance in antiquity; 3. Acting, preaching and oratory in the sixteenth century; 4. Baroque acting; 5. Actors and intellectuals in the Enlightenment era; 6. Emotion; 7. Declamation; 8. Gesture; 9. Training.