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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... seems to have been devised with the express purpose of discouraging intruders " ( 57 ) . Instead , they are questions that those who attend a Shakespearean production can ask . The answers will help a spectator to articulate a response ...
... seems to have been devised with the express purpose of discouraging intruders " ( 57 ) . Instead , they are questions that those who attend a Shakespearean production can ask . The answers will help a spectator to articulate a response ...
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... seems a simplistic statement , but all spaces present challenges , as do all scripts . Julius Caesar , for example , has " big " scenes that may seem cramped and compromised in small theaters . At the same time , it also has intimate ...
... seems a simplistic statement , but all spaces present challenges , as do all scripts . Julius Caesar , for example , has " big " scenes that may seem cramped and compromised in small theaters . At the same time , it also has intimate ...
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... seem to strive for " relevance . " Thus , they often hit us over the head with analogies to our times , as they see them . Often these are the most shallow , trivial aspects of our times , for which theater might serve as a compensatory ...
... seem to strive for " relevance . " Thus , they often hit us over the head with analogies to our times , as they see them . Often these are the most shallow , trivial aspects of our times , for which theater might serve as a compensatory ...
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... seem not to make the effort to create a version of " Elizabethan World Pic- ture , " as the chapter on " The Scottish Play " will suggest , but rather seek ... seems to accept that the joke has been on him , then suddenly INTRODUCTION 25.
... seem not to make the effort to create a version of " Elizabethan World Pic- ture , " as the chapter on " The Scottish Play " will suggest , but rather seek ... seems to accept that the joke has been on him , then suddenly INTRODUCTION 25.
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... seem to be the best zone for live performance of Shakespeare's plays . Television blocks our ability to respond to live Shakespeare on a thrust stage in many ways , of course , but this chapter will deal with only four . First ...
... seem to be the best zone for live performance of Shakespeare's plays . Television blocks our ability to respond to live Shakespeare on a thrust stage in many ways , of course , but this chapter will deal with only four . First ...
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.