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The Players' Advice to Hamlet - The Rhetorical Acting Method from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment (Paperback) Loot Price: R798
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The Players' Advice to Hamlet - The Rhetorical Acting Method from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment (Paperback): David...

The Players' Advice to Hamlet - The Rhetorical Acting Method from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment (Paperback)

David Wiles

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Hamlet is a characteristic intellectual more inclined to lecture actors about their craft than listen to them, and is a precursor of Enlightenment figures like Diderot and Lessing. This book is a quest for the voice of early professional actors, drawing on English, French and other European sources to distinguish the methods of professionals from the theories of intellectual amateurs. David Wiles challenges the orthodoxy that all serious discussion of acting began with Stanislavski, and outlines the comprehensive but fluid classical system of acting which was for some three hundred years its predecessor. He reveals premodern acting as a branch of rhetoric, which took from antiquity a vocabulary for conversations about the relationship of mind and body, inside and outside, voice and movement. Wiles demonstrates that Roman rhetoric provided the bones of both a resilient theatrical system and a physical art that retains its relevance for the post-Stanislavskian performer.

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: 2023
Authors: David Wiles
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 978-1-108-71281-1
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > Acting techniques
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > General
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LSN: 1-108-71281-9
Barcode: 9781108712811

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