Shakespeare, Man of the Theater: Proceedings of the Second Congress of the International Shakespeare Association, 1981This volume presents a sampling of the more than 250 papers presented at the Congress of the ISA held at Stratford-upon-Avon in August 1981. Most of the papers are concerned with Shakespeare as a writer for the theater. Other essays deal with Shakespeare as a literary, rather than theatrical, writer. Several of the offerings cover subjects usually neglected, and develop fresh insight into his work. |
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... moving but Shakespeare once more mod- ulates and intensifies the tone . As they accept and move towards impris- onment to " sing like birds i'the cage , " Lear and Cordelia take upon them the mystery of things As if we were God's spies ...
... moving but Shakespeare once more mod- ulates and intensifies the tone . As they accept and move towards impris- onment to " sing like birds i'the cage , " Lear and Cordelia take upon them the mystery of things As if we were God's spies ...
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... moved by the sheer music of Shakespeare , although today's actors , who race towards familiar quotations in a kind of embar- rassed mutter , as though shying at some obscenity , have done their best to teach me otherwise . When I was a ...
... moved by the sheer music of Shakespeare , although today's actors , who race towards familiar quotations in a kind of embar- rassed mutter , as though shying at some obscenity , have done their best to teach me otherwise . When I was a ...
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Contents
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Historic and Iconic Time in Late Tudor Drama | 47 |
The Word in the Theater | 55 |
The Players Will Tell All or the Actors Role in Renaissance Drama | 76 |
Iconography and the Theatrical Art of Pericles | 86 |
Some Shakespearean Night Sequences | 98 |
Shakespeare and jonson | 155 |
Beaumont and Fletchers Hamlet | 173 |
Society and the Uses of Authority in Shakespeare | 182 |
Seminar Papers | 201 |
The Stagecraft of the Statue Scene in The Winters Tale | 203 |
Shakespearean Comedy and Some EighteenthCentury Actresses | 212 |
Charles Keans King Lear and the Pageant of History | 231 |
APPENDIXES | 243 |
The Positive Uses of Negative Feedback in Criticism and Performance | 105 |
Some Approaches to Alls Well That Ends Well in Performance | 114 |
Between a sob and a Giggle | 121 |
Characterization through Language in the Early Plays of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries | 128 |
Shakespeare and Kyd | 148 |
Complete List of Lectures and Papers from the Program of the Congress | 245 |
Seminars and Their Chairmen | 247 |
Delegates and Participants | 248 |
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Page 15 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Page 21 - Yes, trust them not ! for there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his " Tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide," supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you ; and, being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is, in his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in a country.
Page 59 - Helicanus, strike me, honour'd sir ; Give me a gash, put me to present pain ; Lest this great sea of joys rushing upon me, O'erbear the shores of my mortality, And drown me with their sweetness.
Page 64 - tis not to come ; if it be not to come, it will be now ; if it be not now, yet it will come ; the readiness is all ; since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes?
Page 220 - I will be master of what is mine own : She is my goods, my chattels ; she is my house, My household stuff, my field, my barn, My horse, my ox, my ass, my any thing...
Page 66 - I'll never Be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand, As if a man were author of himself, And knew no other kin.
Page 221 - Mrs. Clive in the sprightliness of humour, I have never seen equalled. What Clive did best, she did better than Garrick ; but could not do half so many things well: she was a better romp than any I ever saw in nature.
Page 197 - A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yond justice rails upon yond simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief ? Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? Glo. Ay, sir. Lear. And the creature run from the cur? There thou mightst behold the great image of authority; a dog's obey'd in office.
Page 103 - This story shall the good man teach his son ; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered...
Page 126 - Were such things here as we do speak about? Or have we eaten on the insane root That takes the reason prisoner?