In this book, first published in 1991, David Mann argues for more
attention to the performer in the study of Elizabethan plays and
less concern for their supposed meanings and morals. He
concentrates on a collection of extracts from plays which show the
Elizabethan actor as a character onstage. He draws from the texts a
range of issues concerning performance practice: the nature of
iterance; doubling and its implications for presentational acting;
the importance of clowning and improvisation; and the effects of
audience and venue on the dynamics of performance. The author
suggests that the stage representation of players is in part a
nostalgic farewell to the passing of an impure but perhaps more
vital theatre, and in part an acknowledgement of the threat the
adult theatre's growing sophistication offered to its institutional
and adolescent rivals. This title will be of interest to students
of Drama and Performance.
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