Cary M. Mazer

Double Shakespeares (eBook, ePUB)

Emotional-Realist Acting and Contemporary Performance

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Double Shakespeares examines contemporary performances of Shakespeare plays that employ the "emotional realist" traditions of acting that were codified by Stanislavski over a century ago. These performances recognize the inescapable doubleness of realism: that the actor may aspire to be the character but can never fully do so. This doubleness troubled the late-nineteenth-century actors and theorists who first formulated realist modes of acting; and it equally troubles theorists and theatre practitioners today. The book first looks at contemporary performances that foreground the doubleness of the actor's body, particularly through cross-dressing. It then examines narratives of Shakespearean rehearsal-both fictional representations of rehearsal in film and video, and eye-witness narratives of actual rehearsals-and how they show us the process by which the actor does or does not "become" the character. And, finally, it looks at modern performances that "frame" Shakespeare's play as a play-within-a-play, showing the audience both the character in the Shakespeare play-within and the actor in the frame-play acting that character.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781611478440
• Artikelnr.: 43977576

Autorenporträt

Cary M. Mazer is associate professor of theatre arts and English at the University of Pennsylvania, where for many years he chaired the undergraduate Theatre Arts Program. He is author of Shakespeare Refashioned: Elizabethan Plays on Edwardian Stages and editor of volume 15 of Great Shakespeareans: Poel, Granville Barker, Guthrie, Wanamaker.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction: The Anxiety of Identity
Part One: Doubleness Chapter One: Double Selves Chapter Two: Undoubling and
Redoubling Chapter Three: Double Bodies Part Two: Double Narratives Chapter
Four: Double Fictions Chapter Five: Double Memoirs Part Three: Double Plays
Chapter Six: Frames Chapter Seven: Three Scripts, Three Productions, Six
Plays "Wounds Invisible": An Epilogue Bibliography Index About the Author