Laughter, Pain, and Wonder: Shakespeare's Comedies and the Audience in the TheaterThis work's chief aim is to restore to readers, performers, and audiences the richness and vitality of Shakespeare's comedies. Richman explores the way in which a reader's relations to Shakespeare's literary texts differ from those of the relations between performers of Shakespeare's works and their audiences. Richman also examines the forms of humor and empathy that Shakespeare's comedies elicit. |
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... Stratford , Connecticut , Richard III , the history of Shakespeare in performance is rife with fulminations against actors and directors who manhandle their texts . Many theater people hold that a play cannot truly be said to exist ...
... Stratford , Connecticut , Richard III , the history of Shakespeare in performance is rife with fulminations against actors and directors who manhandle their texts . Many theater people hold that a play cannot truly be said to exist ...
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... Stratford , Ontario , and Stratford , Connecticut , because these companies tend to elicit the most informa- tive comments from reviewers . For my purposes , I am less interested in the largely undeveloped assertions of newspaper ...
... Stratford , Ontario , and Stratford , Connecticut , because these companies tend to elicit the most informa- tive comments from reviewers . For my purposes , I am less interested in the largely undeveloped assertions of newspaper ...
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... Stratford , Ontario , in 1975 , Marti Maraden gave Olivia wit and character , inspiring a deepening affection in the audience . 6 Revealing as Maraden did Olivia's generosity and insight clears the character of much of the audience's ...
... Stratford , Ontario , in 1975 , Marti Maraden gave Olivia wit and character , inspiring a deepening affection in the audience . 6 Revealing as Maraden did Olivia's generosity and insight clears the character of much of the audience's ...
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... Stratford - upon - Avon , Antony Sher made his first entrance as a black - clad and ostentatious director of mourning rites . 7 The steward also apes what he deems to be the diction and rhythms of the ruling classes , and the actor's ...
... Stratford - upon - Avon , Antony Sher made his first entrance as a black - clad and ostentatious director of mourning rites . 7 The steward also apes what he deems to be the diction and rhythms of the ruling classes , and the actor's ...
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... Stratford , Ontario . " The raging Malvolio's invasion of the party , either black - clad or in his nightgown , radically changes the atmosphere . The character's incongruous appearance may get a scornful guffaw , or the spectacle of ...
... Stratford , Ontario . " The raging Malvolio's invasion of the party , either black - clad or in his nightgown , radically changes the atmosphere . The character's incongruous appearance may get a scornful guffaw , or the spectacle of ...
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Page 98 - Therefore the moon, the governess of floods, Pale in her anger, washes all the air, That rheumatic diseases do abound : And thorough this distemperature we see The seasons alter : hoary-headed frosts in the fresh lap of the crimson rose, And on old Hiems...
Page 131 - Hero had turned nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night ; for good youth, he went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont, and being taken with the cramp, was drowned, and the foolish chroniclers of that age found it was — Hero of Sestos. But these are all lies ; men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
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Page 118 - Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice To hear the solemn curfew; by whose aid, Weak masters though ye be, I have bedimm'd The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds, And twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war; to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt...