| Double Shakespeares: Emotional-Realist Acting and Contemporary Performance Contributor(s): Mazer, Cary M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 161147843X ISBN-13: 9781611478433 Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press OUR PRICE: $99.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Shakespeare - Literary Criticism | Drama - Literary Criticism | European - General |
| Dewey: 792.028 |
| LCCN: 2015022065 |
| Series: Shakespeare and the Stage |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.00 lbs) 214 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |