Character Acting And Being On The Pre Modern Stage
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Character Acting And Being On The Pre Modern Stage
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Author : Edward Burns
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1989-06-18
Character Acting And Being On The Pre Modern Stage written by Edward Burns and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-06-18 with Performing Arts categories.
An analysis of acting and characterization on stage, covering theories of character from Aristotle to Brecht and approaches from formalism to post structuralism. The Early Theatre Group have, over the last 5 years, used an experimental approach to performing some of the plays written about here.
Self Speaking In Medieval And Early Modern English Drama
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Author : R. Hillman
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1997-05-30
Self Speaking In Medieval And Early Modern English Drama written by R. Hillman and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-05-30 with Philosophy categories.
This book documents the changing representation of subjectivity in Medieval and Early Modern English drama by intertextually exploring discourses of 'self-speaking', including soliloquy. Pre-modern ideas about language are combined with recent models of subject formation, especially Lacan's, to theorize and analyze the stage 'self' as a variable linguistic construct. Both the approach itself and the conclusions it generates significantly diverge from the standard New Historicist/Cultural Materialist narrative of subjectivity. Plays range from the Corpus Christi pageants to the Beaumont and Fletcher canon, with Shakespeare a recurrent focus and Hamlet, inevitably, the pivotal text.
Shakespeare And Character
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Author : P. Yachnin
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-12-04
Shakespeare And Character written by P. Yachnin and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
Shakespeare and Character brings together leading scholars in theory, literary criticism, and performance studies in order to redress a serious gap in Shakespeare studies and to put character back at the centre of our understanding of Shakespeare's achievement as an artist and thinker.
Performing Childhood In The Early Modern Theatre
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Author : Edel Lamb
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2008-11-13
Performing Childhood In The Early Modern Theatre written by Edel Lamb and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-13 with Performing Arts categories.
This book investigates how the Children of Paul's (1599-1606) and the Children of the Queen's Revels (1600-13) defined their players as children and, via an analysis of their plays and theatrical practices, it examines early modern theatre as a site in which children have the opportunity to articulate their emerging selfhoods.
The Actor And The Character
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Author : Vladimir Mirodan
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-11-12
The Actor And The Character written by Vladimir Mirodan and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-12 with categories.
Transformative acting remains the aspiration of many an emerging actor, and constitutes the achievement of some of the most acclaimed performances of our age: Daniel Day-Lewis as Lincoln, Meryl Streep as Mrs Thatcher, Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter – the list is extensive, and we all have our favourites. But what are the physical and psychological processes which enable actors to create characters so different from themselves? To understand this unique phenomenon, Vladimir Mirodan provides both a historical overview of the evolution of notions of 'character' in Western theatre and a stunning contemporary analysis of the theoretical implications of transformative acting. The Actor and the Character: Surveys the main debates surrounding the concept of dramatic character and – contrary to recent trends – explains why transformative actors conceive their characters as ‘independent’ of their own personalities. Describes some important techniques used by actors to construct their characters by physical means: work on objects, neutral and character masks, Laban movement analysis, Viewpoints, etc. Examines the psychology behind transformative acting from the perspectives of both psychoanalysis and scientific psychology and, based on recent developments in psychology, asks whether transformation is not just acting folklore but may actually entail temporary changes to the brain structures of the actors. The Actor and the Character speaks not only to academics and students studying actor training and acting theory, but contributes to current lively academic debates around character. This is a compelling and original exploration of the limits of acting theory and practice, psychology, and creative work, in which Mirodan boldly re-examines some of the fundamental assumptions of actor training and some basic tenets of theatre practice to ask: What happens when one of us ‘becomes somebody else’?
The Interpersonal Idiom In Shakespeare Donne And Early Modern Culture
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Author : N. Selleck
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2008-05-29
The Interpersonal Idiom In Shakespeare Donne And Early Modern Culture written by N. Selleck and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-05-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Interpersonal Idiom offers a timely reformulation of identity in the age of Shakespeare, recovering a rich and now obsolete language that casts selfhood not as subjective experience but as the experience of others.
Christopher Smart And Satire
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Author : Min Wild
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-05-23
Christopher Smart And Satire written by Min Wild and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
Christopher Smart and Satire explores the lively and idiosyncratic world of satire in the eighteenth-century periodical, focusing on the way that writers adopted personae to engage with debates taking place during the British Enlightenment. Taking Christopher Smart's audacious and hitherto underexplored Midwife, or Old Woman's Magazine (1750-1753) as her primary source, Min Wild provides a rich examination of the prizewinning Cambridge poet's adoption of the bizarre, sardonic 'Mary Midnight' as his alter-ego. Her analysis provides insights into the difficult position in which eighteenth-century writers were placed, as ideas regarding the nature and functions of authorship were gradually being transformed. At the same time, Wild also demonstrates that Smart's use of 'Mary Midnight' is part of a tradition of learned wit, having an established history and characterized by identifiable satirical and rhetorical techniques. Wild's engagement with her exuberant source materials establishes the skill and ingenuity of Smart's often undervalued, multilayered prose satire. As she explores Smart's use of a peculiarly female voice, Wild offers us a picture of an ingenious and ribald wit whose satirical overview of society explores, overturns, and anatomises questions of gender, politics, and scientific and literary endeavors.
Shakespeare S Sense Of Character
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Author : Michael W. Shurgot
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-01
Shakespeare S Sense Of Character written by Michael W. Shurgot and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-01 with Drama categories.
Making a unique intervention in an incipient but powerful resurgence of academic interest in character-based approaches to Shakespeare, this book brings scholars and theatre practitioners together to rethink why and how character continues to matter. Contributors seek in particular to expand our notions of what Shakespearean character is, and to extend the range of critical vocabularies in which character criticism can work. The return to character thus involves incorporating as well as contesting postmodern ideas that have radically revised our conceptions of subjectivity and selfhood. At the same time, by engaging theatre practitioners, this book promotes the kind of comprehensive dialogue that is necessary for the common endeavor of sustaining the vitality of Shakespeare's characters.
Character And The Individual Personality In English Renaissance Drama
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Author : John E. Curran
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2014-08-20
Character And The Individual Personality In English Renaissance Drama written by John E. Curran and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
Character and the Individual Personality in English Renaissance Drama: Tragedy, History, Tragicomedy studies instantiations of the individualistic character in drama, Shakespearean and non-Shakespearean, and some of the Renaissance ideas allowing for and informing them. Setting aside such fraught questions as the history of Renaissance subjectivity and individualism on the one hand and Shakespearean exceptionalism on the other, we can find that in some plays, by a range of different authors and collaborators, a conception has been evidenced of who a particular person is, and has been used to drive the action. This evidence can take into account a number of internal and external factors that might differentiate a person, and can do so drawing on the intellectual context in a number of ways. Ideas with potential to emphasize the special over the general in envisioning the person might come from training in dialectic (thesis vs hypothesis) or in rhetoric (ethopoeia), from psychological frameworks (casuistry, humor theory, and their interpenetration), or from historiography (exemplarity). But though they depicted what we would call personality only intermittently, and with assumptions different from our own about personhood, dramatists sometimes made a priority of representing the workings of a specific mind: the patterns of thought and feeling that set a person off as that person and define that person singularly rather than categorically. Some individualistic characters can be shown to emerge where we do not expect, such as with Fletcherian personae like Amintor, Arbaces, and Montaigne of The Honest Man’s Fortune; some are drawn by playwrights often uninterested in character, such as Chapman’s Bussy D’Ambois, Jonson’s Cicero, and Ford’s Perkin Warbeck; and some appear in being constructed differently from others by the same author, as when Webster’s Bosola is set in contrast to Flamineo, and Marlowe’s Faustus is set against Barabas. But Shakespearean characters are also examined for the particular manner in which each troubles the categorical and exhibits a personality: Othello, Good Duke Humphrey, and Marc Antony. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Early Modern Drama And The Bible
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Author : A. Streete
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2011-10-27
Early Modern Drama And The Bible written by A. Streete and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
Early modern drama is steeped in biblical language, imagery and stories. This collection examines the pervasive presence of scripture on the early modern stage. Exploring plays by writers such as Shakespeare, Marlowe, Middleton, and Webster, the contributors show how theatre offers a site of public and communal engagement with the Bible.