From Story to Stage: The Dramatic Adaptation of Prose Fiction in the Period of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries |
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... metaphor . In Shakespeare's plays , approxi- mately half the occurrences of the words " theatre " and " stage " are metaphorical . The phenomenal richness of the playwrights ' experience of the theatre and its percepts accounts for the ...
... metaphor . In Shakespeare's plays , approxi- mately half the occurrences of the words " theatre " and " stage " are metaphorical . The phenomenal richness of the playwrights ' experience of the theatre and its percepts accounts for the ...
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... metaphor serves not less often to locate substance in the chimerical . Large meanings lie in a strutting player , in his exits and entrances , and in Richard II's woeful pageant of abdication . The meanings , however , are not ...
... metaphor serves not less often to locate substance in the chimerical . Large meanings lie in a strutting player , in his exits and entrances , and in Richard II's woeful pageant of abdication . The meanings , however , are not ...
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... metaphor takes its origin in the spatial attributes of the drama . But for the fact that the drama mounts only an illusion of space , the metaphor is very nearly no metaphor . It is singularly appropriate to speak of English Renaissance ...
... metaphor takes its origin in the spatial attributes of the drama . But for the fact that the drama mounts only an illusion of space , the metaphor is very nearly no metaphor . It is singularly appropriate to speak of English Renaissance ...
Contents
Introduction | 7 |
Constructs and Percepts | 31 |
Gestures Costumes and Properties | 63 |
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