| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 298 pages). |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 39 |
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Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 39.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-288) and index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
Introduction: conjunctures and concepts -- Performance and authority in Hamlet (1603) -- A new agenda for authority -- The "low and ignorant" crust of corruption -- Towards a circulation of authority in the theatre -- Players, printers, preachers: distraction in authority -- Pen and voice: versions of doubleness -- "Frivolous jestures" vs. matter of "worthiness" (Tamburlaine) -- Bifold authority in Troilus and Cressida -- "Unworthy scaffold" for "so great an object" (Henry V) -- Playing with a difference -- To "disfigure, or to present" (A Midsummer Night's Dream) -- To "descant" on difference and deformity (Richard III) -- The "self-resembled show" -- Presentation, or the performant function -- Histories in Elizabethan performance -- Disparity in mid-Elizabethan theatre history -- Reforming "a whole theatre of others" (Hamlet) -- From common player to excellent actor -- Differentiation, exclusion, withdrawal -- Hamlet and the purposes of playing -- Renaissance writing and common playing -- Unworthy antics in the glass of fashion -- "When in one line two crafts directly meet" -- (Word)play and the mirror of representation -- Space (in)dividable: locus and platea revisited -- Space as symbolic form: the locus -- The open space: provenance and function -- Locus and platea in Macbeth -- Banqueting in Timon of Athens -- Shakespeare's endings: commodious thresholds -- Epilogues vs. closure -- Ends of postponement: holiday into workaday -- Thresholds to memory and commodity -- Liminality: cultural authority 'betwixt-and-between'. |
| Summary |
Robert Weimann redefines the relationship between writing and performance, or 'playing', in Shakespeare's theatre and offers a reconsideration and redefinition of Elizabethan performance and production practices. The study reviews the most recent methodologies of textual scholarship, performance theory, and film interpretation, and offers a new approach to understanding Shakespeare. |
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Performing arts.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Dramatic production.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. (OCoLC)fst00029048
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Shakespeare, William.
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Theater in literature.
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Acting in literature.
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Drama -- Technique.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
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DRAMA -- Shakespeare.
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Acting in literature. (OCoLC)fst00796171
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Drama -- Technique. (OCoLC)fst00897512
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Performing arts. (OCoLC)fst01057887
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Theater. (OCoLC)fst01149217
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Theater in literature. (OCoLC)fst01149340
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Toneel.
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Engels.
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Schriftcultuur.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Added Author |
Higbee, Helen.
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West, William, 1770-1854.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Weimann, Robert. Author's pen and actor's voice. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000 0521781302 (DLC) 99087468 (OCoLC)43109884 |
| ISBN |
0511013086 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511013089 (electronic bk.) |
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051111866X (electronic bk.) |
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9780511118661 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511484070 (electronic bk.) |
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0511484070 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511046001 (electronic bk.) |
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0511046006 (electronic bk.) |
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