Shakespeare Performed: Essays in Honor of R.A. FoakesMany of the contributors to this collection, including E. A. J. Honigmann, M. M. Mahood, Jonathan Bate, and Stanley Wells (among others), have been centrally involved in examining, promoting, and sometimes questioning the critical dominance of the stable Shakespeare text, particularly as a result of performance. The essays range from the traditional poetical and theater history inquiries through bibliographical examinations and hermeneutical interpretations. |
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... textual scholars , and textual scholars are becoming performance critics , and vice versa , particularly in their research into the " stability " of the Shakespearean text . The essays in this collection , divided into two groups ...
... textual scholars , and textual scholars are becoming performance critics , and vice versa , particularly in their research into the " stability " of the Shakespearean text . The essays in this collection , divided into two groups ...
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... textual study and editing , theatre history , and performance criticism of how Shakespeare's plays were received by his audience in his own time and in our time have helped create and shape our modern no- tions and conceptions of ...
... textual study and editing , theatre history , and performance criticism of how Shakespeare's plays were received by his audience in his own time and in our time have helped create and shape our modern no- tions and conceptions of ...
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... textual , and performance scholars and their fields of inquiry must cross over rather than become isolated and fixed ; read in juxtaposition these essays enrich our understanding of the contin- uing evolution through performance of ...
... textual , and performance scholars and their fields of inquiry must cross over rather than become isolated and fixed ; read in juxtaposition these essays enrich our understanding of the contin- uing evolution through performance of ...
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... textual scholars and performance historians clash with confused alarms of struggle and flight . A rough survey of the overall terrain suggests that the majority of critics belong to one of two camps : those whose primary interest is ...
... textual scholars and performance historians clash with confused alarms of struggle and flight . A rough survey of the overall terrain suggests that the majority of critics belong to one of two camps : those whose primary interest is ...
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Contents
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Shakespeares Sense of Direction | 33 |
The Lord Chamberlains Mens Tour of 1597 | 56 |
No Quarrel but a slight Contention | 72 |
Julius Caesar and Sejanus | 88 |
Three Detachable Scenes | 108 |
Representing Falsehood | 122 |
The First Performances of Shakespeares Sonnets | 131 |
Aspects of King Lear in Performance | 198 |
Sleeves Gloves and Helens Placket | 216 |
Australian Shakespeare | 240 |
Cutting Women Down to Size in the Olivier and Loncraine Films of Richard III | 260 |
Film Editing | 273 |
Afterword | 299 |
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Notes on Contributors | 308 |
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