Shakespeare and character [electronic resource] : theory, history, performance, and theatrical persons / edited by Paul Yachnin and Jessica Slights.
Yachnin, Paul Edward, 1953-; Slights, Jessica, 1968-
2009
PR2989 .S525 2009eb
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Shakespeare and character [electronic resource] : theory, history, performance, and theatrical persons / edited by Paul Yachnin and Jessica Slights.
ISBN
9780230584150 electronic book
9780230572621
0230572626
Publication Details
Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Language
English
Description
1 online access (xiii, 259 p.)
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PR2989 .S525 2009eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
822.3/3
Summary
""Character" is a word with enormous resonance in theatrical practice, performance criticism, and literary and historical scholarship. It is also a word in need of concerted, interdisciplinary re-articulation. Shakespeare and Character provides a theoretically, historically, theatrically, and critically substantial account of character. One of the questions that the authors ask is, "what is character?" To answer this central question - and to begin to provide a new critical vocabulary for character study - they examine the theory, history, formal properties, and the literary and performance possibilities of Shakespearean character as well as the bearing that "theatrical persons" might have on the situation of actual people. They also emphasize the interrelationship between theory and the particular by connecting theories and histories of the idea of character to concrete, detailed accounts of particular characters as they emerge in the text and on the stage."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Yachnin, Paul Edward, 1953-
Slights, Jessica, 1968-
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Palgrave Shakespeare studies.
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Shakespeare and character.
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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: From Fictional 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 the Performance 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.

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