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Mann, David Albert

 
9781138235656: The Elizabethan Player: Contemporary Stage Representation
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ISBN 10 : 1138235652 ISBN 13 : 9781138235656
Editeur : Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

In this book, first published in 1991, David Mann argues for more attention to the performer in the study of Elizabethan plays and less concern for their supposed meanings and morals. He concentrates on a collection of extracts from plays which show the Elizabethan actor as a character onstage. He draws from the texts a range of issues concerning performance practice: the nature of iterance; doubling and its implications for presentational acting; the importance of clowning and improvisation; and the effects of audience and venue on the dynamics of performance.

The author suggests that the stage representation of players is in part a nostalgic farewell to the passing of an impure but perhaps more vital theatre, and in part an acknowledgement of the threat the adult theatre's growing sophistication offered to its institutional and adolescent rivals. This title will be of interest to students of Drama and Performance.

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David Albert Mann

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1138235652
ISBN 13 
9781138235656
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
290
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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