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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... whole . The essays in this collection reflect the re- markable diversity of Rosenberg's pursuit of his vision ; his theoretical grounding in the aesthetics of the dramatic form ; his absorption of the cultural contexts in which ...
... whole . The essays in this collection reflect the re- markable diversity of Rosenberg's pursuit of his vision ; his theoretical grounding in the aesthetics of the dramatic form ; his absorption of the cultural contexts in which ...
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... whole art , have encouraged me to collect my essays : to record a shift in one direction of Shakespeare criticism in the last half century . Luckily for me , when I began to pay tribute to the poet - playwright in the 1950s , colleagues ...
... whole art , have encouraged me to collect my essays : to record a shift in one direction of Shakespeare criticism in the last half century . Luckily for me , when I began to pay tribute to the poet - playwright in the 1950s , colleagues ...
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... whole dictionary of non - verbal emotional speech . Then the visual language . Verdi , a musical playwright , said , " Gestures are the body's pronunciation . " Shakespeare asked his actors ' bodies to pronounce the most extreme , the ...
... whole dictionary of non - verbal emotional speech . Then the visual language . Verdi , a musical playwright , said , " Gestures are the body's pronunciation . " Shakespeare asked his actors ' bodies to pronounce the most extreme , the ...
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