Shakespeare and the materiality of performance [electronic resource] / Erika T. Lin
出版項
New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
說明
1 online resource
附註
Many unspoken assumptions permeated the experience of performance in Shakespeare's theatre. Drawing on scientific treatises, murder pamphlets, travel narratives, dream manuals, religious sermons, festive sports, and other fascinating primary sources, Lin reconstructs playgoers' typical ways of thinking and feeling and demonstrates how these culturally-trained habits of mind shaped not only dramatic narratives but also the presentational dynamics of onstage action. Combining literary criticism, theatre history, and performance theory, this ground-breaking study explodes received ideas about mimesis, spectacle, and semiotics as it uncovers the ways in which early modern performance functioned as a material medium, revising and producing social attitudes and practices
Includes bibliographical references
Performance effects. Introduction: materializing the immaterial -- Theorizing theatrical privilege: rethinking Weimann's concepts of Locus and Platea -- Theatrical ways of knowing. Staging sight: visual paradigms and perceptual strategies in Love's labor's lost -- Imaginary forces: allegory, mimesis, and audience interpretation in The Spanish tragedy -- Experiencing embodied spectacle. Dancing and other delights: spectacle and participation in Doctor Faustus and Macbeth -- Artful sport: violence, dismemberment, and games in Titus Andronicus, Cymbeline, and Doctor Faustus
