Reading Shakespeare on StageUniversity of Delaware Press, 1995 - 298 páginas "Reading Shakespeare on Stage offers a straightforward set of criteria whereby anyone, from the first-time playgoer to the most experienced Shakespearean scholar, may evaluate his or her response to a production of one of Shakespeare's scripts. This articulation of response is not a by-product of going to the theater, but a central part of the experience. The "invitation to response" is a function of Shakespeare's stage, which was open to the audience on three sides, and is incorporated into his scripts through soliloquies, asides, and references to Shakespeare's stage and his dramaturgy." "The concept of "script" (as opposed to "text") makes possible an approach to Shakespeare's plays as plays, a function to which their literary quality is subordinate. That fact, however, does not mean that recent critical tendencies are irrelevant to the scripts. Feminist and historicist readings of the plays are "contextualized" in and by the ongoing energy system of production. It remains true, however, that many members of the growing audience for live performances can not determine what may have been strong or weak about a given production. The size and shape of the stage and the size of the auditorium, for example, define what can occur within the given space, but few spectators take that crucial factor into account. Reading Shakespeare on Stage provides the criteria for evaluation, while at the same time admitting that the criteria themselves are subject to debate and that their application emerges from the subjective psychology of perception of individual spectators."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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... become less flexible and our imaginative abilities as an audience have dimin- ished for that reason . Chapter Three will deal with the concept of space at length , as will discussions of many of the productions . For now though , I'll ...
... become less flexible and our imaginative abilities as an audience have dimin- ished for that reason . Chapter Three will deal with the concept of space at length , as will discussions of many of the productions . For now though , I'll ...
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... becomes its own play , scripted by Autolycus , and obscuring any contact we have with the larger play surrounding it . Jazz musicians say : " All he can do is play the notes . " Similarly , Peter Hall once complained that actors speak ...
... becomes its own play , scripted by Autolycus , and obscuring any contact we have with the larger play surrounding it . Jazz musicians say : " All he can do is play the notes . " Similarly , Peter Hall once complained that actors speak ...
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... becomes the master , or Malvolio hopes to become " Count Malvolio , " or when great men like Lear and Gloucester and Richard II are toppled from their secure posts . In most cases , however , as in Middlemarch , even the dogs know their ...
... becomes the master , or Malvolio hopes to become " Count Malvolio , " or when great men like Lear and Gloucester and Richard II are toppled from their secure posts . In most cases , however , as in Middlemarch , even the dogs know their ...
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... become clearer for us — in fact , we can help clarify it for ourselves — if it is set in a particular period and not just in a universal time frame that blurs distinctions . Conversely , though , distinctions can also be blurred , when ...
... become clearer for us — in fact , we can help clarify it for ourselves — if it is set in a particular period and not just in a universal time frame that blurs distinctions . Conversely , though , distinctions can also be blurred , when ...
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... becomes more difficult with time , and even if some scholars ignore Shake- speare on stage in their quest for ... become inseparable parts of the same essential experience " ( Shifting Point , 41 ) . We do share an essential ...
... becomes more difficult with time , and even if some scholars ignore Shake- speare on stage in their quest for ... become inseparable parts of the same essential experience " ( Shifting Point , 41 ) . We do share an essential ...
Contenido
Television and Live Performance | 31 |
The Concept of Script | 39 |
1987 and the Question of Space | 69 |
Directors Decisions 1989 | 90 |
The Summer of King Lear | 136 |
Winter of the Scottish Play | 157 |
Measure for Measure at Stratford Canada 1992 | 175 |
The Good the Horrid and the InBetween | 186 |
The Directors and the Critics Stratford on Avon 1992 | 213 |
Richard III Large and Small | 234 |
London February 1993 | 249 |
Postscript | 263 |
Appendix | 268 |
Works Cited | 277 |
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 29 - A strong presence of actors and a strong presence of spectators can produce a circle of unique intensity in which barriers can be broken and the invisible become real.