Double Shakespeares - Emotional-Realist Acting and Contemporary Performance

Double Shakespeares examines contemporary performances of Shakespeare's plays, and narratives about rehearsing and performing Shakespeare's plays, that acknowledge the inescapable doubleness of "emotional-realist" acting.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Introduction: The Anxiety of Identity

Part One: Doubleness
Chapter One: Double Selves
Chapter Two: Undoubling and Redoubling
Chapter Three: Double Bodies

Part Two: Double Narratives
Chapter Four: Double Fictions
Chapter Five: Double Memoirs

Part Three: Double Plays
Chapter Six: Frames
Chapter Seven: Three Scripts, Three Productions, Six Plays

"Wounds Invisible": An Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the author

Cary M. Mazer is associate professor of theatre arts and English at the University of Pennsylvania, where for many years he chaired the undergraduate Theatre Arts Program. He is author of Shakespeare Refashioned: Elizabethan Plays on Edwardian Stages and editor of volume 15 of Great Shakespeareans: Poel, Granville Barker, Guthrie, Wanamaker.

Product details

• Authors: Cary M. Mazer
• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.09.2015
• EAN: 9781611478433
• ISBN: 978-1-61147-843-3
• No. of pages: 214
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 505 g
• Series: Shakespeare and the Stage
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama