| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 545 pages) : illustrations |
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INTRODUCTION; I: HISTORY; 1. The Actor's Part; 2. The Actors; 3. Rehearsing and Performing; II: INTERPRETING CUES; 4. History of the Cue; 5. Interpreting Shakespeare's Cues; 6. Cues and Characterisation; 7. Waiting and Suddenness: the Part in Time; 8. Repeated Cues; 9. Repeated cues: from Crowds to Clowns; 10. Repeated cues: comi-tragic/tragic-comic pathos; 11. Repeated cues and the battle for the cue-space: The Merchant of Venice; 12. Repeated cues and tragedy; 13. Repeated cues and the cue-space in King Lear; 14. Repeated cues and post-tragic effects; 15. Repeated Cues and the Cue-Space in The Tempest; III: THE ACTOR WITH HIS PART; 16. History; 17. Dramatic prosody; 18. Prosodic Switches: From Actor's Prompt to Absent Presence; 19. Midline shifts in 'mature' Shakespeare: from actorly instruction to 'virtual' presence; 20. Case studies: six romantic heroines and three lonely men |
| Summary |
Shakespeare's drama originally circulated in the form of the individual actor's part, containing only a single character's speeches and brief cues. This collaboration of original theatre history with exciting literary criticism captures anew Shakespeare's development as a writer |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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| SUBJECT |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast |
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- analys och tolkning. sao |
| Subject |
Theater -- England -- History -- 17th century
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
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DRAMA -- Shakespeare.
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Theater
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England
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Stern, Tiffany
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| LC no. |
2007300310 |
| ISBN |
0191534013 |
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9780191534010 |
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1281164496 |
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9781281164490 |
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9780191699580 |
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0191699586 |
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9786611164492 |
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6611164499 |
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1435614097 |
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9781435614093 |
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0199591105 |
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9780199591107 |
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