Double Shakespeares examines contemporary performances of Shakespeare plays that employ the emotional realist traditions of acting that were codified by Stanislavski over a century ago. These performances recognize the inescapable doubleness of realism: that the actor may aspire to be the character but can never fully do so. This doubleness troubled the late-nineteenth-century actors and theorists who first formulated realist modes of acting; and it equally troubles theorists and theatre practitioners today. The book first looks at contemporary performances that foreground the doubleness of...
Double Shakespeares examines contemporary performances of Shakespeare plays that employ the emotional realist traditions of acting that were codified ...
In Shakespeare s Dramatic Persons, Travis Curtright examines the influence of the classical rhetorical tradition on early modern theories of acting in a careful study of and selection from Shakespeare s most famous characters and successful plays. Curtright demonstrates that personation the early modern term for playing a role is a rhetorical acting style that could provide audiences with lifelike characters and action, including the theatrical illusion that dramatic persons possess interiority or inwardness. Shakespeare s Dramatic Persons focuses on major characters such as Richard III,...
In Shakespeare s Dramatic Persons, Travis Curtright examines the influence of the classical rhetorical tradition on early modern theories of acting in...
Double Shakespeares examines contemporary performances of Shakespeare plays that employ the -emotional realist- traditions of acting that were codified by Stanislavski over a century ago. These performances recognize the inescapable doubleness of realism: that the actor may aspire to be the character but can never fully do so. This doubleness troubled the late-nineteenth-century actors and theorists who first formulated realist modes of acting; and it equally troubles theorists and theatre practitioners today. The book first looks at contemporary performances that foreground the doubleness of...
Double Shakespeares examines contemporary performances of Shakespeare plays that employ the -emotional realist- traditions of acting that were codifie...
This collection features nine essays that explore how the material conditions of the early modern English stage shaped the theater. Topics range from the simulation of pregnant bodies by boy actors (and the effects of those simulations) to how bruises created by make-up might have been used on stage
This collection features nine essays that explore how the material conditions of the early modern English stage shaped the theater. Topics range from ...
To refine a critical understanding of early modern acting styles, Shakespeare's Dramatic Persons explores how the classical rhetorical tradition would inform an actor's personation of character.
To refine a critical understanding of early modern acting styles, Shakespeare's Dramatic Persons explores how the classical rhetorical tradition would...