Shakespeare and the Triple Play: From Study to Stage to ClassroomSidney Homan Developing the interrelationship of Shakespeare scholarship, performance, and teaching, the contributors to this collection, including scholars of the People's Republic of China, share the perspective that Shakespeare's plays be viewed as texts to be enacted, whether on the theater stage or the stage of the mind's eye. |
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... looks at the political circumstances attending the court performance of The Tem- pest and the three general but conflicting views of the natural man in the Renaissance . Not a synthesis of polarized critical views , Payne's reading ...
... looks at the political circumstances attending the court performance of The Tem- pest and the three general but conflicting views of the natural man in the Renaissance . Not a synthesis of polarized critical views , Payne's reading ...
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... looks at the various and seemingly contradictory ways that the Macbeths have been played . In particular , he charts the changing relationship between husband and wife , the way both Shakespeare's open text and the cultural norms of the ...
... looks at the various and seemingly contradictory ways that the Macbeths have been played . In particular , he charts the changing relationship between husband and wife , the way both Shakespeare's open text and the cultural norms of the ...
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... looks to his friends for relief , he makes the unhappy discovery that pure giving creates pure receiving — receiving devoid of a sense of moral indebtedness and this discovery sends him into the wilderness where he digs up gold and ...
... looks to his friends for relief , he makes the unhappy discovery that pure giving creates pure receiving — receiving devoid of a sense of moral indebtedness and this discovery sends him into the wilderness where he digs up gold and ...
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... look at Midas , the very symbol and personification of wealth . He came by his golden touch by doing Dionysus a service and getting his choice of a reward . In choosing gold it is as though he said to Dionysus " If you can't immortalize ...
... look at Midas , the very symbol and personification of wealth . He came by his golden touch by doing Dionysus a service and getting his choice of a reward . In choosing gold it is as though he said to Dionysus " If you can't immortalize ...
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Contents
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Magic and Politics in The Tempest | 43 |
Between the Mirror and the Face Symbolic Reality in Richard II | 58 |
4 | 76 |
The Camera in Gertrudes Closet | 150 |
The Classroom | 175 |
Intentions Options and Greatness An Example from A Midsummer Nights Dream | 177 |
Actualizing the Metaphor Image and Act in Twelfth Night and King Lear | 187 |
Hamlets First Soliloquy An Exercise | 197 |
Shakespeare Liveon Videotape | 201 |
Students Write about Shakespeare The Triple Play in the College Classroom | 207 |
The Triple Stage and the National Endowment Shakespeare Institute | 215 |
b Shakespeare and the Idea of Nature in the Renaissance | 82 |
Hamlets Fat | 89 |
The Stage | 105 |
Notes on Playing Prospero | 107 |
The Merry Wives of Windsor in the Peoples Republic of China A Directors Notebook | 116 |
Culture Character and Conscience in Shakespeare | 138 |
Afterword | 223 |
Afterword | 225 |
Notes on the Contributors | 231 |
Index | 235 |
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