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Touching at a Distance: Shakespeare's Theatre

Touching at a Distance: Shakespeare's Theatre

Ungelenk, Johannes

Hardcover

Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy

PhilosophyLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 1474497829
ISBN13: 9781474497824
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: Feb 21 2023
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Theatre has a remarkable capacity: it touches from a distance. The audience is affected, despite their physical separation from the stage. The spectators are moved, even though the fictional world presented to them will never come into direct touch with their real lives. Shakespeare is clearly one of the master practitioners of theatrical touch. As the study shows, his exceptional dramaturgic talent is intrinsically connected with being one of the great thinkers of touch. His plays fathom the complexity and power of a fascinating notion - touch as a productive proximity that is characterised by unbridgeable distance - which philosophers like Friedrich Nietzsche, Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Derrida, Luce Irigaray and Jean-Luc Nancy have written about, centuries later.

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