Shakespeare and the Materiality of Performance [electronic resource] /
Lin, E.author.
Winner of the MRDS 2013 David Bevington Award for Best New Book in Early Drama Studies! Drawing on a wide variety of primary sources, Lin reconstructs playgoers' typical ways of thinking and feeling and demonstrates how these culturally-trained habits of mind shaped dramatic narratives and the presentational dynamics of onstage action.
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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Note on Texts; Part I Performance Effects; Introduction Materializing the Immaterial; 1 Theorizing Theatrical Privilege: Rethinking Weimann's Concepts; Part II Theatrical Ways of Knowing; 2 Staging Sight: Visual Paradigms and Perceptual Strategies in; 3 Imaginary Forces: Allegory, Mimesis, and Audience Interpretation; Part III Experiencing Embodied Spectacle; 4 Dancing and Other Delights: Spectacle and Participation in; 5 Artful Sport: Violence, Dismemberment, and Games in; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Winner of the MRDS 2013 David Bevington Award for Best New Book in Early Drama Studies! Drawing on a wide variety of primary sources, Lin reconstructs playgoers' typical ways of thinking and feeling and demonstrates how these culturally-trained habits of mind shaped dramatic narratives and the presentational dynamics of onstage action.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Poetry.
Performing arts.
Theater.
Literature, Modern.
British literature.
Theater-History.
Poetry and Poetics.
Performing Arts.
Theatre and Performance Studies.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Theatre History.