Authors: Robert Weimann, Weimann Robert, Helen Higbee
ISBN-13: 9780521781305, ISBN-10: 0521781302
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: July 2000
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Book Synopsis
Redefines the relationship between writing and performance in Shakespeare's theatre.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction: Conjunctures and concepts
1. Performance and authority in Hamlet (1603)
2. A new agenda for authority
3. Pen and voice: versions of doubleness
4. Playing with a difference
5. Histories in Elizabethan performance
6. Hamlet and the purposes of playing
7. Space (in)dividable: Locus and Platea revisited
8. Shakespeare s endings: commodious thresholds
Afterword: thresholds forever after
Notes
Index.
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