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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... writer for the theater . Among the sub- jects discussed are the Elizabethan thea- ter and architecture , acting , characteri- zation , and various aspects of stagecraft . The reader is even offered a glimpse into how Shakespeare's works ...
... writer for the theater . Among the sub- jects discussed are the Elizabethan thea- ter and architecture , acting , characteri- zation , and various aspects of stagecraft . The reader is even offered a glimpse into how Shakespeare's works ...
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... writer that I was able to understand Shakespeare's extraordinary mastery of that most difficult of all literary crafts , the practice of dramatic writing . When I started to write some television plays loosely based on the life of ...
... writer that I was able to understand Shakespeare's extraordinary mastery of that most difficult of all literary crafts , the practice of dramatic writing . When I started to write some television plays loosely based on the life of ...
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... writer too closely with his creations . From a study of John Osborne's excellent plays , works that out - Timon ... writers , Shakespeare came from the middle class , and yet he wrote almost exclusively of princes or peasants . The 22 ...
... writer too closely with his creations . From a study of John Osborne's excellent plays , works that out - Timon ... writers , Shakespeare came from the middle class , and yet he wrote almost exclusively of princes or peasants . The 22 ...
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... writer faces , the creation of drama . The extraordinary thing about the Elizabethan theater , the great medium through which Shakespeare exercised his art , is the shortness of its existence . It was an instrument available to writers ...
... writer faces , the creation of drama . The extraordinary thing about the Elizabethan theater , the great medium through which Shakespeare exercised his art , is the shortness of its existence . It was an instrument available to writers ...
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... writer's wonderful op- portunity to paint scenery with the two finest materials available , words and the audience's imagination . In fact the Elizabethan theater gave the dramatic writer all the advantages that he was to lose and not ...
... writer's wonderful op- portunity to paint scenery with the two finest materials available , words and the audience's imagination . In fact the Elizabethan theater gave the dramatic writer all the advantages that he was to lose and not ...
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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