Shakespeare's Stagecraft - Couverture souple

Styan, J. L.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521094356 ISBN 13 : 9780521094351

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1967

Synopsis

Library sticker on front cover.No dust jacket.Cover scuffed and worn.Softback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in fair all round condition.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

For many years, critics and students of Shakespeare have tended to stress that his plays are poetic structures embodying 'themes', and these structures have been analysed in great detail. Professor Styan advocates another approach. The plays were written for acting, in a theatre of a particular type. If we ask what effects this kind of theatre encouraged and how Shakespeare exploited them, the plays are seen as a sequence of stage-effects, planned with great art so as to enrich, reinforce and modify each other. Professor Styan begins with the known facts about the Elizabethan theatre, stressing the effect of the size of the apron stage, and the degree in which the spectators situated all around are involved in the action. It was a theatre of movement and grouping, and above all speech. Shakespeare's verse is full of suggestions about how it is to be delivered; it is, in Professor Styan's word, 'gestic'. Professor Styan shows in very many examples, quoting the text and examining its dramatic implications, what the words suggest about movement over the stage, about the relationship between groups of players on the stage, and about the delivery and dramatic effect of the words themselves. Thus we build up a new sense of the whole play. This is a convenient and comprehensive introduction to the study of Shakespeare's dramatic craftsmanship, which also reopens that direction of enquiry which Granville-Barker first explored.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 1967
• ISBN 10: 0521094356
• ISBN 13: 9780521094351
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256