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Elizabethan stage conventions and modern interpreters /

0521259126

0521311616

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9780521311618

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Elizabethan stage conventions and modern interpreters /

[Book]

Alan C. Dessen.

New York :

Cambridge University Press,

1984.

xi, 190 pages ;

22 cm

"List of plays and editions": pages 181-185.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 164-180) and index.

Preface -- Note on texts and old spelling -- The arrow in Nessus: Elizabethan clues and modern detectives -- Interpreting stage directions -- The logic of this on the open stage -- Elizabethan darkness and modern lighting -- The logic of place and locale -- The logic of stage violence -- Theatrical metaphor: seeing and not-seeing -- Conclusion: Elizabethan playscripts and modern interpreters -- Notes -- List of plays and editions -- Index.

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"Alan Dessen samples about four hundred play texts from the age of Shakespeare in order to recover the conventions of staging they reveal. in studying the stage settings, movements and emblems implicit in recurrent phrases and stage directions, he concludes that the Elizabethan audience, much less concerned with realism than many later generations have been, were used to receiving a kind of theatrical shorthand transmitted by the actors from the playwright. Professor Dessen draws attention to the implications of his findings for modern interpreters, addressing not only critics and teachers but also editors, actors and directors. He demonstrates that in many situations the 'logic' of the modern interpreter, for example, in his expectations of consistent characterisation, is in some way at odds with the original 'logic' of presentation, for example, in its acceptance of allegory and synecdoche. The rediscovery of the original logic illuminates for modern interpreters some of the most puzzling and awkward parts of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries." --Publisher description.

£17.50 : CIP rev.

Shakespeare, William,1564-1616-- Criticism and interpretation.

Shakespeare, William,1564-1616-- Dramatic production.

Englisch, ...

Shakespeare, William,1564-1616

Shakespeare, William,1564-1616-- Dramatic production.

English drama-- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600-- History and criticism.

Stage directions.

Theater-- England-- History-- 16th century.

Theatres-- Great Britain-- Stage setting and scenery.

Aufführung

Drama

English drama-- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600-- History and criticism.

English drama-- Early modern and Elizabethan.

Rezeption

Stage directions.

Stage directions.

Theater

Theater-- Great Britain-- 16th century.

Theater.

England

England.

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