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Early Modern Actors and Shakespeare's Theatre - Thinking with the Body (Hardcover)
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Early Modern Actors and Shakespeare's Theatre - Thinking with the Body (Hardcover)
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What skills did Shakespeare's actors bring to their craft? How do
these skills differ from those of contemporary actors? Early Modern
Actors and Shakespeare's Theatre: Thinking with the Body examines
the 'toolkit' of the early modern player and suggests new readings
of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries through the lens
of their many skills. Theatre is an ephemeral medium. Little
remains to us of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries:
some printed texts, scattered documents and records, and a few
scraps of description, praise, and detraction. Because most of what
survives are printed playbooks, students of English theatre find it
easy to forget that much of what happened on the early modern stage
took place within the gaps of written language: the implicit or
explicit calls for fights, dances, military formations, feats of
physical skill, song, and clowning. Theatre historians and textual
editors have often ignored or denigrated such moments, seeing them
merely as extraneous amusements or signs that the text has been
'corrupted' by actors. This book argues that recapturing a positive
account of the skills and expertise of the early modern players
will result in a more capacious understanding of the nature of
theatricality in the period.
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