Shakespeare's drama originally circulated in the form of the individual actor's part, containing only a single character's speeches and cues. This collaboration of theatre history with literary criticism captures Shakespeare's development as a writer, showing how scripting and acting work together to produce characters of unprecedented immediacy. INDICE: INTRODUCTION; I: HISTORY; 1: The Actor's Part; 2: The Actors; 3: Rehearsing and Performing; II: INTERPRETING CUES; 4: History of the Cue; 5: Interpreting Shakespeare's Cues; 6: Cues and Characterisation; 7: Waiting and Suddenness: the Part in Time; 8: Repeated Cues; 9: Repeated cues: from Crowds to Clowns; 10: Repeated cues: comi-tragic/tragic-comic pathos; 11: Repeated cues and the battle for the cue-space: The Merchant of Venice; 12: Repeated cuesand tragedy; 13: Repeated cues and the cue-space in King Lear; 14: Repeated cues and post-tragic effects; 15: Repeated Cues and the Cue-Space in The Tempest; III: THE ACTOR WITH HIS PART; 16: History; 17: Dramatic prosody; 18: Prosodic Switches: From Actor's Prompt to Absent Presence; 19: Midline shifts in 'mature' Shakespeare: from actorly instruction to 'virtual' presence; 20: Case studies: six romantic heroines and three lonely men
- ISBN: 978-0-19-959110-7
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 560
- Fecha Publicación: 08/12/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés