Exposed by the Mask
Publisher: Oberon Books Ltd
Published: March 16, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9781840021424
Subjects: Plays & playwrights; Theatre, drama; Literature: History & Criticism
First sentence: It is a blessing to me (since I inhabit to some extent both their worlds) that theatre people and academics now often talk the same language.
Description: "Peter Hall delivered these explorations of form and language in drama as the Clark Lectures for Trinity College, Cambridge in January 2000. In four main parts they reveal a lifetime's discoveries about classical theatre, Shakespeare, opera and modern drama." "The central argument is that form and structured language paradoxically give freedom to power of thought and feeling, much like the masks which enabled actors in early Greek drama to express extreme emotion. The mask may take many forms - the precise language of Beckett and Pinter, the classical form of Mozart's operas, or Shakespeare's verse."--Jacket.