Shakespeare, Performance, and Affect in Modern Anglo-American Film and Theatre
نام ساير پديدآوران
Worthen, William B.
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
Columbia University
تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره
2020
مشخصات ظاهری
نام خاص و کميت اثر
170
یادداشتهای مربوط به پایان نامه ها
جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن
Ph.D.
کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده
Columbia University
امتياز متن
2020
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
This dissertation makes a case for the Shakespearean stage in the modern Anglo-American tradition as a distinctive laboratory for producing and navigating theories of emotion. The dissertation brings together Shakespeare performance studies and the newer fields of the history of emotions and cultural emotion studies, arguing that Shakespeare's enduring status as the playwright of human emotion makes the plays in performance critical sites of discourse about human emotion. More specifically, the dissertation charts how, since the late nineteenth century, Shakespeare performance has been implicated in an effort to understand emotion as it defines and relates to the "human" subject. The advent of scientific materialism and Darwinism involved a dethroning of emotion and its expression as a specially endowed human faculty, best evidenced by Charles Darwin's 1871 The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals. Shakespeare's poetic, formal expression of the passions was seen as proof of this faculty, and nowhere better exemplified than in the tragedies and in the passionate displays of the great tragic heroes. The controversy surrounding the tragic roles of the famous Victorian actor-manager Henry Irving illustrates how the embodied, human medium of the Shakespearean stage served as valuable leverage in contemporary debates about emotion. The dissertation then considers major Shakespearean figures of the twentieth century, including Harley Granville Barker, Orson Welles, Laurence Olivier, and Peter Brook, whose "stages" similarly galvanize and reflect contestation and change in what William Reddy has called "emotional regimes" or Barbara Rosenwein "emotional communities." For each of these figures, a specific emotional paradigm is at stake in staging Shakespeare and particularly Shakespearean tragedy. I engage with a range of sources, from performance reviews to popular psychology, to locate these canonical moments in Shakespearean performance history as flashpoints in a cultural history of emotion.
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
British & Irish literature
موضوع مستند نشده
Emotion
موضوع مستند نشده
Performance
موضوع مستند نشده
Performing arts
موضوع مستند نشده
Shakespeare, William
موضوع مستند نشده
Theater
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