Shakespeare and character: theory, history, performance and theatrical persons

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. ÍNDICE: Contents - Preface - Notes on Contributors - Introduction; P.Yachnin and J.Slights - PART I: THEORY - Confusing Shakespeare's Characters with Real People: Reflections on Reading in Four Questions; M.Bristol - The Reality of Fictive Cinematic Characters; T.Ponech - Character as Dynamic Identity: FromFictional Interaction Script to Performance; W.Dodd - PART II: HISTORY - Personnage: History, Philology, Performance; A.G.Bourassa - The Properties of Character in King Lear; J.Berg - Embodied Intersubjectivity and the Creation of Early Modern Character; L.Lieblein - PART III: PERFORMANCE - Metatheater and thePerformance of Character in The Winter's Tale; P.Yachnin and M.W.Selkirk - Character, Agency and the Familiar Actor; A.J.Hartley - The Actor-Character in 'Secretly Open' Action: Doubly Encoded Personation on Shakespeare's Stage; R.Weimann - PART IV: THEATRICAL PERSONS - Is Timon a Character?; A.Dawson - When is a bastard not a bastard? Character in King John; C.Slights - Arming Cordelia: Character and Performance; S.Werner - Bibliography - Index -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-57262-1
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 264
• Fecha Publicación: 12/12/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés