Acting and action in Shakespearean tragedy /
This intensely personal book develops a new approach to the study of action in drama. Michael Goldman eloquently applies a method based on a crucial fact: our experience of a play in the theater is almost exclusively our experience of acting. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Librar...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[1985]
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ISBN: | 9781400854806 1400854806 9780691066301 0691066302 0691611831 9780691611839 |
Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- I. Introduction
- II. "To Be or Not To Be" and the Spectrum of Action
- III. Othello's Cause
- IV. Acting and Feeling: Histrionic Imagery in King Lear
- V. Speaking Evil: Language and Action in Macbeth
- VI. Antony and Cleopatra: Action as Imaginative Command
- VII. Characterizing Coriolanus
- Notes
- Index.