Acting and Action in Shakespearean Tragedy / / Michael Goldman.
This intensely personal book develops a new approach to the study of action in drama. Michael Goldman eloquently applies a method based on a crucial fact: our experience of a play in the theater is almost exclusively our experience of acting.Originally published in 1985.The Princeton Legacy Library...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1985 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (194 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- I. Introduction
- II. "To Be or Not To Be" and the Spectrum of Action
- III. Othello's Cause
- IV. Acting and Feeling: Histrionic Imagery in King Lear
- V. Speaking Evil: Language and Action in Macbeth
- VI. Antony and Cleopatra: Action as Imaginative Command
- VII. Characterizing Coriolanus
- Notes
- Index