Author: Travis Curtright
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611479398
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
In Shakespeare’s Dramatic Persons, Travis Curtright examines the influence of the classical rhetorical tradition on early modern theories of acting in a careful study of and selection from Shakespeare’s most famous characters and successful plays. Curtright demonstrates that “personation”—the early modern term for playing a role—is a rhetorical acting style that could provide audiences with lifelike characters and action, including the theatrical illusion that dramatic persons possess interiority or inwardness. Shakespeare’s Dramatic Persons focuses on major characters such as Richard III, Katherina, Benedick, and Iago and ranges from Shakespeare’s early to late work, exploring particular rhetorical forms and how they function in five different plays. At the end of this study, Curtright envisions how Richard Burbage, Shakespeare’s best actor, might have employed the theatrical convention of directly addressing audience members. Though personation clearly differs from the realism aspired to in modern approaches to the stage, Curtright reveals how Shakespeare’s sophisticated use and development of persuasion’s arts would have provided early modern actors with their own means and sense of performing lifelike dramatic persons.
Shakespeare’s Dramatic Persons
Author: Travis Curtright
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611479398
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
In Shakespeare’s Dramatic Persons, Travis Curtright examines the influence of the classical rhetorical tradition on early modern theories of acting in a careful study of and selection from Shakespeare’s most famous characters and successful plays. Curtright demonstrates that “personation”—the early modern term for playing a role—is a rhetorical acting style that could provide audiences with lifelike characters and action, including the theatrical illusion that dramatic persons possess interiority or inwardness. Shakespeare’s Dramatic Persons focuses on major characters such as Richard III, Katherina, Benedick, and Iago and ranges from Shakespeare’s early to late work, exploring particular rhetorical forms and how they function in five different plays. At the end of this study, Curtright envisions how Richard Burbage, Shakespeare’s best actor, might have employed the theatrical convention of directly addressing audience members. Though personation clearly differs from the realism aspired to in modern approaches to the stage, Curtright reveals how Shakespeare’s sophisticated use and development of persuasion’s arts would have provided early modern actors with their own means and sense of performing lifelike dramatic persons.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611479398
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
In Shakespeare’s Dramatic Persons, Travis Curtright examines the influence of the classical rhetorical tradition on early modern theories of acting in a careful study of and selection from Shakespeare’s most famous characters and successful plays. Curtright demonstrates that “personation”—the early modern term for playing a role—is a rhetorical acting style that could provide audiences with lifelike characters and action, including the theatrical illusion that dramatic persons possess interiority or inwardness. Shakespeare’s Dramatic Persons focuses on major characters such as Richard III, Katherina, Benedick, and Iago and ranges from Shakespeare’s early to late work, exploring particular rhetorical forms and how they function in five different plays. At the end of this study, Curtright envisions how Richard Burbage, Shakespeare’s best actor, might have employed the theatrical convention of directly addressing audience members. Though personation clearly differs from the realism aspired to in modern approaches to the stage, Curtright reveals how Shakespeare’s sophisticated use and development of persuasion’s arts would have provided early modern actors with their own means and sense of performing lifelike dramatic persons.
Characters of Shakespeare's Plays
Author: William Hazlitt
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Essays on Some of Shakespeare's Dramatic Characters
Author: William Richardson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Waking Romeo
Author: Kathryn Barker
Publisher: Flatiron Books
ISBN: 1250174112
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Kathryn Barker's Waking Romeo is a spectacularly genre-bending retelling of Romeo & Juliet asking the big questions about true love, fate, and time travel Year: 2083. Location: London. Mission: Wake Romeo. It’s the end of the world. Literally. Time travel is possible, but only forward. And only a handful of families choose to remain in the “now,” living off of the scraps left behind. Among them are eighteen-year-old Juliet and the love of her life, Romeo. But things are far from rosy for Jules. Romeo lies in a coma and Jules is estranged from her friends and family, dealing with the very real fallout of their wild romance. Then a mysterious time traveler, Ellis, impossibly arrives from the future with a mission that makes Juliet question everything she knows about life and love. Can Jules wake Romeo—and rewrite her future?
Publisher: Flatiron Books
ISBN: 1250174112
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Kathryn Barker's Waking Romeo is a spectacularly genre-bending retelling of Romeo & Juliet asking the big questions about true love, fate, and time travel Year: 2083. Location: London. Mission: Wake Romeo. It’s the end of the world. Literally. Time travel is possible, but only forward. And only a handful of families choose to remain in the “now,” living off of the scraps left behind. Among them are eighteen-year-old Juliet and the love of her life, Romeo. But things are far from rosy for Jules. Romeo lies in a coma and Jules is estranged from her friends and family, dealing with the very real fallout of their wild romance. Then a mysterious time traveler, Ellis, impossibly arrives from the future with a mission that makes Juliet question everything she knows about life and love. Can Jules wake Romeo—and rewrite her future?
Essays on Shakespeare's Dramatic Characters of Richard the Third, King Lear, and Timon of Athens
Author: William Richardson
Publisher:
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Category : Characters and characteristics in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Characters and characteristics in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Shakespeare's Dramatic Art
Author: Hermann Ulrici
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 562
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Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
The Councillor
Author: E. J. Beaton
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 075641699X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
When the death of Iron Queen Sarelin Brey fractures the realm of Elira, Lysande Prior, the palace scholar and the queen's closest friend, is appointed Councillor. Publically, Lysande must choose the next monarch from amongst the city-rulers vying for the throne. Privately, she seeks to discover which ruler murdered the queen, suspecting the use of magic. Resourceful, analytical, and quiet, Lysande appears to embody the motto she was raised with: everything in its place. Yet while she hides her drug addiction from her new associates, she cannot hide her growing interest in power. She becomes locked in a game of strategy with the city-rulers - especially the erudite prince Luca Fontaine, who seems to shift between ally and rival. Further from home, an old enemy is stirring: the magic-wielding White Queen is on the move again, and her alliance with a traitor among the royal milieu poses a danger not just to the peace of the realm, but to the survival of everything that Lysande cares about
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 075641699X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
When the death of Iron Queen Sarelin Brey fractures the realm of Elira, Lysande Prior, the palace scholar and the queen's closest friend, is appointed Councillor. Publically, Lysande must choose the next monarch from amongst the city-rulers vying for the throne. Privately, she seeks to discover which ruler murdered the queen, suspecting the use of magic. Resourceful, analytical, and quiet, Lysande appears to embody the motto she was raised with: everything in its place. Yet while she hides her drug addiction from her new associates, she cannot hide her growing interest in power. She becomes locked in a game of strategy with the city-rulers - especially the erudite prince Luca Fontaine, who seems to shift between ally and rival. Further from home, an old enemy is stirring: the magic-wielding White Queen is on the move again, and her alliance with a traitor among the royal milieu poses a danger not just to the peace of the realm, but to the survival of everything that Lysande cares about
Essays on Shakespeare's Dramatic Characters
Author: William Richardson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Characters and characteristics in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Characters and characteristics in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Shakespeare: His Dramatic Acts
Author: Andrew Donkin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781407198125
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Everybody's heard of William Shakespeare. He's famous for writing a few plays, having a bit of a way with words and creating characters like romantic Romeo and murderous Macbeth. But have you heard that William: Did a seven-year vanishing act? Nearly had his head chopped off by the Queen? Nicked an entire theatre? Now you can get the inside story with William's secret diary, find out the news of the day in the Shakespearean Sunand prepare to be amazed as the curtain is raised on Shakespeare's most dramatic acts. Everything you could ever want to know about Shakespeare!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781407198125
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Everybody's heard of William Shakespeare. He's famous for writing a few plays, having a bit of a way with words and creating characters like romantic Romeo and murderous Macbeth. But have you heard that William: Did a seven-year vanishing act? Nearly had his head chopped off by the Queen? Nicked an entire theatre? Now you can get the inside story with William's secret diary, find out the news of the day in the Shakespearean Sunand prepare to be amazed as the curtain is raised on Shakespeare's most dramatic acts. Everything you could ever want to know about Shakespeare!
Shakespeare's Dramatic Art
Author: Wolfgang Clemen
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136559086
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
First published in 1972. Studying Shakespeare's 'art of preparation', this book illustrates the relationship between the techniques of preparation and the structure and theme of the plays. Other essays cover Shakespeare's use of the messenger's report, his handling of the theme of appearance and reality and the basic characteristics of Shakespearian drama.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136559086
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
First published in 1972. Studying Shakespeare's 'art of preparation', this book illustrates the relationship between the techniques of preparation and the structure and theme of the plays. Other essays cover Shakespeare's use of the messenger's report, his handling of the theme of appearance and reality and the basic characteristics of Shakespearian drama.