Shakespeare: Text, Subtext, and ContextRonald L. Dotterer Seventeen critics are represented in this collection of essays designed to illustrate the vitality and range of traditional and new approaches to Shakespeare studies. |
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... play or part comes into being . " And it is this " through line of action " that to him is successful theatrical representation ; without it a play exists only in frag- ments , broken bits and pieces that , however brilliantly contrived ...
... play or part comes into being . " And it is this " through line of action " that to him is successful theatrical representation ; without it a play exists only in frag- ments , broken bits and pieces that , however brilliantly contrived ...
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... play , they nonetheless help to illuminate the relationship between text and per- formance by suggesting how the play on the stage becomes , in the words of Ronald Hayman , a " series of theatrical impacts " 2 that evoke , shape , and ...
... play , they nonetheless help to illuminate the relationship between text and per- formance by suggesting how the play on the stage becomes , in the words of Ronald Hayman , a " series of theatrical impacts " 2 that evoke , shape , and ...
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... play leaves audiences ( and critics ) trying to reconcile two contradictory impulses : the impulse to condemn Macbeth as evil and the impulse to mourn and celebrate his courage and perverse magnificence , 10 These contradictory impulses ...
... play leaves audiences ( and critics ) trying to reconcile two contradictory impulses : the impulse to condemn Macbeth as evil and the impulse to mourn and celebrate his courage and perverse magnificence , 10 These contradictory impulses ...
Contents
Foreword | 9 |
Subtext in Shakespeare | 31 |
The Recovery of the Elizabethan and Jacobean Playhouses | 56 |
Copyright | |
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