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Shakespeare in Parts (Hardcover)
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Shakespeare in Parts (Hardcover)
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A truly groundbreaking collaboration of original theatre history
with exciting literary criticism, Shakespeare in Parts is the first
book fully to explore the original form in which Shakespeare's
drama overwhelmingly circulated. This was not the full play-text;
it was not the public performance. It was the actor's part,
consisting of the bare cues and speeches of each individual role.
With group rehearsals rare or non-existent, the cued part alone had
to furnish the actor with his character. But each such part-text
was riddled with gaps and uncertainties. The actor knew what he was
going to say, but not necessarily when, or why, or to whom; he may
have known next to nothing of any other part. It demanded the most
sensitive attention to the opportunities inscribed in the script,
and to the ongoing dramatic moment. Here is where the young actor
Shakespeare learnt his trade; here is where his imagination, verbal
and technical, learnt to roam.
This is the story of Shakespeare in Parts. As Shakespeare
developed his playwriting, the apparent limitations of the medium
get transformed into expressive opportunities. Both cue and speech
become promise-crammed repositories of meaning and movement, and of
individually discoverable space and time. Writing always for the
same core group of players, Shakespeare could take - and insist
upon - unprecedented risks. The result is onstage drama of
astonishing immediacy. Starting with a comprehensive history of the
part in early modern theatre, Simon Palfrey and Tiffany Stern's
mould-altering work of historical and imaginative recovery provides
a unique keyhole onto hitherto forgotten practices and techniques.
It not only discovers a newly active, choice-ridden actor, but a
new Shakespeare.
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