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