Shakespeare and the materiality of performance [electronic resource] / Erika T. Lin.
2012
PR3095 .L56 2012eb
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Title
Shakespeare and the materiality of performance [electronic resource] / Erika T. Lin.
Author
Lin, Erika T., 1972-
ISBN
9781137006509 (electronic bk.)
1137001062
9781137001061
1137001062
9781137001061
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New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 238 p.) : ill.
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PR3095 .L56 2012eb
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.
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Table of 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.
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.