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Author Lin, Erika T., 1972-

Title Shakespeare and the materiality of performance / Erika T. Lin
Published New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

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Contents Performance effects. Introduction: materializing the immaterial -- Theorizing theatrical privilege: rethinking Weimann's concepts of Locus and Platea -- Theatrical ways of knowing. Staging sight: visual paradigms and perceptual strategies in Love's labor's lost -- Imaginary forces: allegory, mimesis, and audience interpretation in The Spanish tragedy -- Experiencing embodied spectacle. Dancing and other delights: spectacle and participation in Doctor Faustus and Macbeth -- Artful sport: violence, dismemberment, and games in Titus Andronicus, Cymbeline, and Doctor Faustus
Summary Many unspoken assumptions permeated the experience of performance in Shakespeare's theatre. Drawing on scientific treatises, murder pamphlets, travel narratives, dream manuals, religious sermons, festive sports, and other fascinating primary sources, Lin reconstructs playgoers' typical ways of thinking and feeling and demonstrates how these culturally-trained habits of mind shaped not only dramatic narratives but also the presentational dynamics of onstage action. Combining literary criticism, theatre history, and performance theory, this ground-breaking study explodes received ideas about mimesis, spectacle, and semiotics as it uncovers the ways in which early modern performance functioned as a material medium, revising and producing social attitudes and practices
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history -- To 1625.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history -- England -- London
SUBJECT Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast
Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 gnd
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Dramatic production. idszbzes
Subject Theater audiences -- England -- London -- History -- 16th century
Theater audiences -- England -- London -- History -- 17th century
Theater and society -- England -- History -- 16th century
Theater and society -- England -- History -- 17th century
Theatre studies -- c 1600 to c 1700.
Shakespeare studies & criticism -- c 1600 to c 1700.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- History & Criticism.
Performing Arts.
Theater and society
Theater audiences
Drama
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Theatre and society -- England -- 16th century.
Theatre and society -- England -- 17th century.
England
England -- London
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781137006509
1137006501
6613954268
9786613954268
1283641763
9781283641760