Shakespeare, Man of the Theater: Proceedings of the Second Congress of the International Shakespeare Association, 1981This volume presents a sampling of the more than 250 papers presented at the Congress of the ISA held at Stratford-upon-Avon in August 1981. Most of the papers are concerned with Shakespeare as a writer for the theater. Other essays deal with Shakespeare as a literary, rather than theatrical, writer. Several of the offerings cover subjects usually neglected, and develop fresh insight into his work. |
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... Stage history - Congresses . I. Muir , Kenneth . II . Halio , Jay L. III . Palmer , D. J. IV . Title . PR2889.157 1981 ISBN 0-87413-217-7 822.3'3 82-40346 Printed in the United States of America IN MEMORIAM C. L. Barber G. Bullough ...
... Stage history - Congresses . I. Muir , Kenneth . II . Halio , Jay L. III . Palmer , D. J. IV . Title . PR2889.157 1981 ISBN 0-87413-217-7 822.3'3 82-40346 Printed in the United States of America IN MEMORIAM C. L. Barber G. Bullough ...
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... stage villain is transposed to the image of Cain , the instrument of fratricide and of the first invasion of the world by death . The symphonic pattern has been changed and enhanced in one brief soliloquy . And comedy shares with ...
... stage villain is transposed to the image of Cain , the instrument of fratricide and of the first invasion of the world by death . The symphonic pattern has been changed and enhanced in one brief soliloquy . And comedy shares with ...
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... stage plays as suitable for " seasons of humiliation . " The great Elizabethan theaters stood derelict , many of them to be used again only as stables and sheep pens , and actors drifted off to become unsuitable recruits in the armed ...
... stage plays as suitable for " seasons of humiliation . " The great Elizabethan theaters stood derelict , many of them to be used again only as stables and sheep pens , and actors drifted off to become unsuitable recruits in the armed ...
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... stage is an empty space . Put one thing on it , a throne , say , or a bed , and it looks important ; add another and its importance is halved . The emptiness of Shakespeare's stage meant that props , even costumes , I suspect , were of ...
... stage is an empty space . Put one thing on it , a throne , say , or a bed , and it looks important ; add another and its importance is halved . The emptiness of Shakespeare's stage meant that props , even costumes , I suspect , were of ...
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... stage , the box set , gradually led the theater away from poetry and towards naturalism . The three - act play no longer flashed from Rome to Egypt , the curtain fell , and after a lengthy interval allowing time for a fight for a small ...
... stage , the box set , gradually led the theater away from poetry and towards naturalism . The three - act play no longer flashed from Rome to Egypt , the curtain fell , and after a lengthy interval allowing time for a fight for a small ...
Contents
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Shakespeare Imagines a Theater | 34 |
Historic and Iconic Time in Late Tudor Drama | 47 |
The Word in the Theater | 55 |
The Players Will Tell All or the Actors Role in Renaissance Drama | 76 |
Iconography and the Theatrical Art of Pericles | 86 |
Some Shakespearean Night Sequences | 98 |
Shakespeare and jonson | 155 |
Beaumont and Fletchers Hamlet | 173 |
Society and the Uses of Authority in Shakespeare | 182 |
Seminar Papers | 201 |
The Stagecraft of the Statue Scene in The Winters Tale | 203 |
Shakespearean Comedy and Some EighteenthCentury Actresses | 212 |
Charles Keans King Lear and the Pageant of History | 231 |
APPENDIXES | 243 |
The Positive Uses of Negative Feedback in Criticism and Performance | 105 |
Some Approaches to Alls Well That Ends Well in Performance | 114 |
Between a sob and a Giggle | 121 |
Characterization through Language in the Early Plays of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries | 128 |
Shakespeare and Kyd | 148 |
Complete List of Lectures and Papers from the Program of the Congress | 245 |
Seminars and Their Chairmen | 247 |
Delegates and Participants | 248 |
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