Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage
Passion's Slaves
This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched.Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. It argues that the ways in which today's popular and theatrical cultures judge how much is too much can distort our understanding of early modern drama and theatre. It argues that permitting the excesses of the early modern drama onto the contemporary stage might free actors and audiences alike from assumptions that in order to engage with the drama of the past, its characters must be just like us.Th…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4081-7969-7
- EAN: 9781408179697
- Produktnummer: 17011837
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 344 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
Über den Autor
Bridget Escolme is Senior Lecturer in Drama at Queen Mary, University of London. She researches and teaches historical theatre and its contemporary production, particuarly early modern drama and the ways in which original and current staging practices produce space and subjectivity. She is a member of the International Shakespeare Association and is on the Architectural Advisory Committee of Shakespeare's Globe, London. She is founder member of the Shakespeare in Performance network, an international seminar of Shakespeare performance critics.
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