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... action , a frame for rhetoric and ceremony against which the shattering of order and the rejection of falsified and exploitative formal relationships could resound . The visible background to the action , the shape of the playing space ...
... action , a frame for rhetoric and ceremony against which the shattering of order and the rejection of falsified and exploitative formal relationships could resound . The visible background to the action , the shape of the playing space ...
Page 6
... action . The individual whose performance was framed by this ceremonial action was Richard Burbage , playing Lear . He was the leading actor of the company , aged something under forty at this time and at the height of his powers . The ...
... action . The individual whose performance was framed by this ceremonial action was Richard Burbage , playing Lear . He was the leading actor of the company , aged something under forty at this time and at the height of his powers . The ...
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... action , variously dubbed an ' extravagant and exaggerated ' or a ' natural ' manner , made use of his physical grace and quickness , his intensely expressive face and his flexible voice to combine mime and delivery so as to convey ...
... action , variously dubbed an ' extravagant and exaggerated ' or a ' natural ' manner , made use of his physical grace and quickness , his intensely expressive face and his flexible voice to combine mime and delivery so as to convey ...
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