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The Hand on the Shakespearean Stage - Gesture, Touch and the Spectacle of Dismemberment (Paperback)
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The Hand on the Shakespearean Stage - Gesture, Touch and the Spectacle of Dismemberment (Paperback)
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This ground-breaking new book uncovers the way Shakespeare draws
upon the available literature and visual representations of the
hand to inform his drama. Providing an analysis of gesture, touch,
skill and dismemberment in a range of Shakespeare's works, it shows
how the hand was perceived in Shakespeare's time as an indicator of
human agency, emotion, social and personal identity. It
demonstrates how the hand and its activities are described and
embedded in Shakespeare's texts and about its role on the
Shakespearean stage: as part of the actor's body, in the language
as metaphor, and as a morbid stage-prop. Understanding the cultural
signifiers that lie behind the early modern understanding of the
hand and gesture, opens up new and sometimes disturbing ways of
reading and seeing Shakespeare's plays.
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