The Adventures of a Shakespeare Scholar: To Discover Shakespeare's Art, Volume 10Rarely does a scholar single-handedly point Shakespeare study in a new direction. But in the 1950s, when brilliant insights were being achieved in Shakespeare's language, and a few theatre historians were recording stagings and stage business, Marvin Rosenberg led the way to a wider perspective of the poet-playwright's genius. He insisted that Shakespeare's art fused poetry-of-the-word with poetry-of-the-theatre, each illuminating the other inseparably. |
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... Theater ( In Studies in Philology 51 , January 1954 255 25. Shame on You , David Garrick - or , What the Victorian Theater Did to Shakespeare's Tragedies ( Ohio Shakespeare Conference , Toledo , 1987 ) 271 26. Translations of Erotic ...
... Theater ( In Studies in Philology 51 , January 1954 255 25. Shame on You , David Garrick - or , What the Victorian Theater Did to Shakespeare's Tragedies ( Ohio Shakespeare Conference , Toledo , 1987 ) 271 26. Translations of Erotic ...
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... theater historians as George C. D. Odell and Arthur Colby Sprague , greatly extending the scope of their work and bringing to bear in his research a wide experience of international productions as well as his deep knowledge of British ...
... theater historians as George C. D. Odell and Arthur Colby Sprague , greatly extending the scope of their work and bringing to bear in his research a wide experience of international productions as well as his deep knowledge of British ...
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... theater as his literary scholarship . Hence , he can argue successfully for more rounded conceptions of Iago and of Desdemona and can bring new understanding to such minor characters as the gravediggers in Hamlet . Unlike other ...
... theater as his literary scholarship . Hence , he can argue successfully for more rounded conceptions of Iago and of Desdemona and can bring new understanding to such minor characters as the gravediggers in Hamlet . Unlike other ...
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... theater art , and their ideas were being widely accepted in essays — even in PMLA — and in books . From that essay ( see Chapter 27 , " Elizabethan Actors : Men or Marionettes ? " ) I began my concentration on how Shakespeare's masterly ...
... theater art , and their ideas were being widely accepted in essays — even in PMLA — and in books . From that essay ( see Chapter 27 , " Elizabethan Actors : Men or Marionettes ? " ) I began my concentration on how Shakespeare's masterly ...
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... theater art , that has made his plays masterpieces of the stage ? I went back to the beginning : what was the essence of Shakespeare's dramatic form ? I kept absorbing the outlines of this as I studied his texts . 1 began to sense the ...
... theater art , that has made his plays masterpieces of the stage ? I went back to the beginning : what was the essence of Shakespeare's dramatic form ? I kept absorbing the outlines of this as I studied his texts . 1 began to sense the ...
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