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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... visual - aural fusions of the great plays , he chose the most complexly challeng- ing : the major tragedies . One after another appeared the books so highly valued now , all in print : The Masks of Othello , The Masks of King Lear , The ...
... visual - aural fusions of the great plays , he chose the most complexly challeng- ing : the major tragedies . One after another appeared the books so highly valued now , all in print : The Masks of Othello , The Masks of King Lear , The ...
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... Visual Compositions ( The Folger Shakespeare Library , 1987 ) 197 19. Subtext in Shakespeare ( World Shakespeare Conference , Stratford , 1981 ) 200 20. Shakespeare's Tragic World of If ( In Shakespeare Jahrbuch , Heidelberg , 1980 ) ...
... Visual Compositions ( The Folger Shakespeare Library , 1987 ) 197 19. Subtext in Shakespeare ( World Shakespeare Conference , Stratford , 1981 ) 200 20. Shakespeare's Tragic World of If ( In Shakespeare Jahrbuch , Heidelberg , 1980 ) ...
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... visual implications , which yielded important results for interpretation both in the study and on the boards . Typically , Rosenberg adopts a new point of view , focusing on familiar materials from a different angle , that allows us to ...
... visual implications , which yielded important results for interpretation both in the study and on the boards . Typically , Rosenberg adopts a new point of view , focusing on familiar materials from a different angle , that allows us to ...
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... visual images and motifs ( see Chapter 18 , " Shakespeare's Visual Compositions " ) . I gave much thought to Shakespeare's visual and aural dialogue , as well as to the verbal , because I felt I could not fully comprehend Shake ...
... visual images and motifs ( see Chapter 18 , " Shakespeare's Visual Compositions " ) . I gave much thought to Shakespeare's visual and aural dialogue , as well as to the verbal , because I felt I could not fully comprehend Shake ...
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... visual fix on the tenuous variability of the characters ? A picture of their polyphony ? I am trying . I have always enjoyed experiments ; this one is still in the laboratory stage , and I will welcome suggestions ( see Chapter 12 ...
... visual fix on the tenuous variability of the characters ? A picture of their polyphony ? I am trying . I have always enjoyed experiments ; this one is still in the laboratory stage , and I will welcome suggestions ( see Chapter 12 ...
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