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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Named Person: | William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert Weimann; Helen Higbee; William N West |
ISBN: | 0521781302 9780521781305 0521787351 9780521787352 9786610162178 6610162174 |
OCLC Number: | 43109884 |
Description: | xiii, 298 pages ; 24 cm. |
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'. |
Series Title: | Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture, 39. |
Responsibility: | Robert Weimann ; edited by Helen Higbee and William West. |
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'Robert Weimann's study is indispensable for an understanding of the complex play of authority and appropriation in the Elizabethan theatre. Any serious consideration of the relation between text and performance, any analysis of the struggle for the control of theatrical interpretation, any sustained reflection on the crossing of the threshold from reality to the play-world and back again would do well to begin here with this brilliant book.' Stephen Greenblatt 'In this book Weimann again charts new ground, by reading Shakespeare's searching interrogation of the two modes of production in which he worked: writing and acting. He challenges us to reimagine Shakespearean drama as an art that is inclusive as well as contestatory.' W. B. Worthen 'Robert Weimann has written an extraordinary book - bold and original in its conception, sophisticated and surprising in its execution. It is scrupulous in its research and rigorous in its argument, energetic in its prose and agile in its readings. Weimann leads us once again to rethink much of what we thought we knew about Elizabethan plays.' David Scott Kastan '... impressively detailed... The breadth of Robert Weiman's research and the depth of his thought are evident on every page.' New Theatre Quarterly Read more...


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