The Actor in History: A Study in Shakespearean Stage PoetryPennsylvania State University Press, 1988 - Всего страниц: 158 In this book an eminent scholar considers the relation which Shakespeare establishes between the values of the supreme world of Elizabethan and Jacobean reality, that of the kings and soldiers at the top of the tree, and his own domain, the poetry of the theater. Ostensibly, that poetry emphasizes straightforwardly the values of the plot of the play --by his poetry, the king or soldier becomes more visible to us. The rhythms of his voice, the verbal images and innuendos, reinforce the man's kingship or soldiership. But at other times, what takes place is different. Starting from a shadowy identification of the character with his position in the play, the poetry begins to substitute its independent or nearly independent values--its power to charm and to threaten and expand the "meaning" of the actor vis-à-vis his role. The character we watch on the stage escapes into an area where the sensations with which his acting affects us come also directly from his histrionic relation to us. He becomes an actor as such and less an actor of Brutus or Antony or Coriolanus. We are all the more moved because we know that the histrionic is a representation of the reality of emotion, as definite and valid as impressionism is of the visual truth of the external world. In certain plays Shakespeare puts at variance our sense of the histrionic against the more usual values which we set upon political and military achievement. The fantasy of Richard II, for example, is his escape from the harshness of the historical circumstances that belittle his capacity; clothed in poetry and growing into the actual presentation of the actor who rendered the part, it dominates us to the devaluing of the winner in the plot's competition. |
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... Julius Caesar , and Antony and Cleopatra , to the exclusion of the anachronistic Troilus and Cressida or Timon of Athens . Of course , even in the plays based on better - documented history , Shakespeare must invent tone , to some ...
... Julius Caesar is to be found in the chronicles , for large - scale preventive butchery . It is worth remembering that it is a fact of Roman history and perhaps impressed Shakespeare as just such a horribly unique fact . There is also no ...
... Julius Caesar lies in the relation of the mur- der to the rest of the play . This is the precipitant of all the issues political and moral of the new Roman state , the state of the triumvirate first and eventually of the Augustan Empire ...
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The Triumph of Fantasy | 13 |
The Actor in History | 37 |
Competitive Worlds | 61 |
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