Author's Pen and Actor's Voice: Playing and Writing in Shakespeare's TheatreCambridge University Press, 2000 M07 27 - 298 pages Robert Weimann redefines the relationship between writing and performance, or "playing," in Shakespeare's theater. Through close reading and careful analysis Weimann offers a reconsideration and redefinition of Elizabethan performance and production practices. The study reviews the most recent methodologies of textual scholarship, the new history of the Elizabethan theater, performance theory, and film and video interpretation, and offers a new approach to understanding Shakespeare. Weimann examines a range of plays as well as other contemporary works. A major part of the study explores the duality between playing and writing. |
Contents
Performance and authority in Hamlet 1603 | 18 |
A new agenda for authority | 29 |
The low and ignorant crust of corruption | 31 |
Towards a circulation of authority in the theatre | 36 |
distraction in authority | 43 |
Pen and voice versions of doubleness | 54 |
Frivolous jestures vs matter of worthiness Tamburlaine | 56 |
Bifold authority in Troilus and Cressida | 62 |
Renaissance writing and common playing | 153 |
Unworthy antics in the glass of fashion | 161 |
When in one line two crafts directly meet | 169 |
Wordplay and the mirror of representation | 174 |
Space individable locus and platea revisited | 180 |
the locus | 182 |
provenance and function | 192 |
Locus and platea in Macbeth | 196 |
Unworthy scaffold for so great an object Henry V | 70 |
Playing with a difference | 79 |
To disfigure or to present A Midsummer Nights Dream | 80 |
To descant on difference and deformity Richard III | 88 |
The selfresembled show | 98 |
Presentation or the performant function | 102 |
Histories in Elizabethan performance | 109 |
Disparity in midElizabethan theatre history | 110 |
Reforming a whole theatre of others Hamlet | 121 |
From common player to excellent actor | 131 |
Differentiation exclusion withdrawal | 136 |
Hamlet and the purposes of playing | 151 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Author's Pen and Actor's Voice: Playing and Writing in Shakespeare's Theatre Author's Pen and Actor's Voice: Playing and Writing in Shakespeare's Theatre, Robert Weimann Volume 39 of Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture |
| Author | Robert Weimann |
| Editors | Helen Higbee, William West |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2000 |
| ISBN | 0521787351, 9780521787352 |
| Length | 298 pages |
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