Players'' Advice to Hamlet - The Rhetorical Acting Method From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment

Informationen zum Autor David Wiles is Emeritus Professor of Drama at the University of Exeter. A British theatre historian, he specialises in classical and early modern theatre and has spent his career in departments of drama, where his teaching has always engaged with practice. His research interests include performance space and time, mask, acting and citizenship. This is his eighth book for Cambridge University Press. Klappentext Outlining a classical 'rhetorical' system, this is the first serious overview of how European actors c.1550-1800 thought about acting. Zusammenfassung Explores the art of acting in Europe between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries! demonstrating how stage acting was understood as a branch of rhetoric. This book distinguishes the methods of professionals from the theories of intellectual amateurs! and argues that the present has much to learn from premodern debates. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Hamlet's advice to the players; 2. Rhetorical performance in antiquity; 3. Acting, preaching and oratory in the sixteenth century; 4. Baroque acting; 5. Actors and intellectuals in the Enlightenment era; 6. Emotion; 7. Declamation; 8. Gesture; 9. Training.

Product details

• Authors: David Wiles, David (University of Exeter) Wiles, Wiles David
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9781108498876
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49887-6
• No. of pages: 378
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Europa, 17. Jahrhundert (1600 bis 1699 n. Chr.), 16. Jahrhundert (1500 bis 1599 n. Chr.), Europe, Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker, Theaterregie und Theaterproduktion, DRAMA / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Acting techniques, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, C 1600 To C 1700, Theatre Direction & Production, Theatre direction and production, Literary studies: plays and playwrights