ISBN:
9781000849523
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (190 pages)
Series Statement:
Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.4/84809
Keywords:
Shakespeare, William,-1564-1616-Dramatic production
;
Theater audiences
;
Theater in literature
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
This book lays bare the dialogue between Shakespeare and critics of the stage, and positions it as part of an ongoing cultural, ethical, and psychological debate about the effects of performance on actors and on spectators.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Chapters in This Book -- A Note on the Texts -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 1 The Theater Controversies in Early Modern England -- Playhouse, Prayer-House, Profit, and Plague -- Actors and Audience -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 2 True Performing and Verses of Feigning Love: A Midsummer Night's Dream and Early Modern English Antitheatricality -- "Verses of Feigning Love"-Poetry in A Midsummer Night's Dream -- "True Performing"-Theater in A Midsummer Night's Dream -- Conclusion: Poets and Players -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 3 Hamlet as Shakespeare's Defense of Theater -- Ethical and Ontological Concerns about Theater -- The Laughter of the Barren Spectators -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 4 "In My Power": The Tempest as Shakespeare's Antitheatrical Vision -- Theater and Spectacle in The Tempest and in the Antitheatrical Discourse -- Music in The Tempest -- In Your Power: Shakespeare's Defense of Music and Drama -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Afterword: Poets, Pipers, and Players -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
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