Face-to-Face in Shakespearean Drama : : Ethics, Performance, Philosophy / / Matthew James Smith, Julia Reinhard Lupton.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: James Smith, Matthew,; Reinhard Lupton, Julia ,
• MitwirkendeR: Byker, Devin,; Curran, Kevin,; Lupton, Julia Reinhard,; Manley, Lawrence,; Scolnicov, Hanna,; Shimizu, Akihiko,; Shortslef, Emily,; Smith, Bruce R.,; Smith, Matthew James,; Waldron, Jennifer,; West, William N.,; Worthen, W. B.,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)

Explores the drama of proximity and co-presence in Shakespeare’s playsBrings together the rare pairing of philosophical ethics and performance studies in Shakespeare’s playsEngages with the thought of philosophers including Ludwig Wittgenstein, Hannah Arendt, Paul Ricoeur, Stanley Cavell, and Emmanuel LevinasThis book celebrates the theatrical excitement and philosophical meanings of human interaction in Shakespeare. On stage and in life, the face is always window and mirror, representation and presence. It examines the emotional and ethical surplus that appears between faces in the activity and performance of human encounter on stage. By transitioning from face as noun to verb – to face, outface, interface, efface, deface, sur-face – chapters reveal how Shakespeare's plays discover conflict, betrayal and deception as well as love, trust and forgiveness between faces and the bodies that bear them.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: Foundational Face Work -- 1. Outface and Interface -- 2. ‘Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool’: Folie à Deux in Shakespeare’s Love Duets -- 3. The Course of Recognition in Cymbeline -- Part II: Composing Intimacy and Conflict -- 4. Face to Face, Hand to Hand: Relations of Exchange in Hamlet -- 5. Bed Tricks and Fantasies of Facelessness: All’s Well that Ends Well and Macbeth in the Dark -- Part III: Facing Judgement -- 6. The Face of Judgement in Measure for Measure -- 7. Then Face to Face: Timing Trust in Macbeth -- Part IV: Moving Pictures -- 8. The Man of Sorrows: Edgar’s Disguise and Dürer’s Self-portraits -- 9. The Face as Rhetorical Self in Ben Jonson’s Literature -- 10. Hamlet’s Face -- Afterword: Theatre and Speculation -- Notes on Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index