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Shakespeare and the Power of the Face (Paperback)
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Shakespeare and the Power of the Face (Paperback)
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Throughout his plays, Shakespeare placed an extraordinary emphasis
on the power of the face to reveal or conceal moral character and
emotion, repeatedly inviting the audience to attend carefully to
facial features and expressions. The essays collected here disclose
that an attention to the power of the face in Shakespeare's England
helps explain moments when Shakespeare's language of the self
becomes intertwined with his language of the face. As the range of
these essays demonstrates, an attention to Shakespeare's treatment
of faces has implications for our understanding of the historical
and cultural context in which he wrote, as well as the significance
of the face for the ongoing interpretation and production of the
plays. Engaging with a variety of critical strands that have
emerged from the so-called turn to the body, the contributors to
this volume argue that Shakespeare's invitation to look to the face
for clues to inner character is not an invitation to seek a static
text beneath an external image, but rather to experience the power
of the face to initiate reflection, judgment, and action. The
evidence of the plays suggests that Shakespeare understood that
this experience was extremely complex and mysterious. By turning
attention to the face, the collection offers important new analyses
of a key feature of Shakespeare's dramatic attention to the part of
the body that garnered the most commentary in early modern England.
By bringing together critics interested in material culture studies
with those focused on philosophies of self and other and historians
and theorists of performance, Shakespeare and the Power of the Face
constitutes a significant contribution to our growing understanding
of attitudes towards embodiment in Shakespeare's England.
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