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Performing Emotions - Gender, Bodies, Spaces, in Chekhov's Drama and Stanislavski's Theatre (Paperback)
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Performing Emotions - Gender, Bodies, Spaces, in Chekhov's Drama and Stanislavski's Theatre (Paperback)
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In Performing Emotions, Peta Tait's central argument is that
performing emotions in realism is also performing gender identity.
Emotions are phenomena that are performable by bodies, which have
cultural identities. In turn, these create cultural spaces of
emotions. This study integrates scholarship on realist drama,
theatre and approaches to acting, with interdisciplinary theories
of emotion, phenomenology and gender theory. With chapters devoted
to masculinity and femininity specifically, as well as to emotions
generally, it investigates social beliefs about emotions through
Chekhov's four major plays in translation, and English language
commentaries on Constantin Stanislavski's direction (of the play's
first productions) and his approaches to acting, and Olga Knipper's
acting of the central women characters. Emotions exists as social
relationships; they are imagined and embodied as gendered. Tait
demonstrates how theatrical emotions are predicated on social
performances and vice versa. In Chekhov's plays, which came to
dominate a twentieth century theatre of emotions, characters
interpret their emotions intertextually in relation to other
theatrical and fictional narratives of emotions. Tait here
interrogates these plays as sustained explorations of the inherent
theatricality of characters expressing emotions from their
phenomenological awareness. A theatrical language of gendered
interiority is produced in the acting of emotions in Stanislavski's
early realistic theatre. Alternatively, remapping the performances
of emotional bodies can destabilise the culturally constructed
boundary separating an inner, private self and an outer, social
self in culturally produced geographies of emotions. As Tait shows,
emotions can be performed as indivisible spatialities. Performing
Emotions integrates theories of theatre, gender identity and
emotion to investigate how sexual difference impacts on the
representations of emotions. The book develops an accumulative
analysis of the meanings of emotions in twentieth century realist
drama, theatre and acting.
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