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Double Shakespeares: Emotional-Realist Acting and Contemporary Performance

Double Shakespeares: Emotional-Realist Acting and Contemporary Performance

Mazer, Cary M.

Hardcover

Series: Shakespeare and the Stage

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 161147843X
ISBN13: 9781611478433
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: Sep 10 2015
Pages: 214
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Double Shakespeares examines contemporary performances of Shakespeare plays that employ the emotional realist traditions of acting that were codified by Stanislavski over a century ago. These performances recognize the inescapable doubleness of realism: that the actor may aspire to be the character but can never fully do so. This doubleness troubled the late-nineteenth-century actors and theorists who first formulated realist modes of acting; and it equally troubles theorists and theatre practitioners today. The book first looks at contemporary performances that foreground the doubleness of the actor's body, particularly through cross-dressing. It then examines narratives of Shakespearean rehearsal--both fictional representations of rehearsal in film and video, and eye-witness narratives of actual rehearsals--and how they show us the process by which the actor does or does not become the character. And, finally, it looks at modern performances that frame Shakespeare's play as a play-within-a-play, showing the audience both the character in the Shakespeare play-within and the actor in the frame-play acting that character.

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