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基本説明
Examines the whole process of theatre-going, performance and audience enjoyment, bringing together the disciplines of Theatre Studies and Shakespeare Studies.
Full Description
In his latest book, John Russell Brown offers a new and revealing way of reading and studying Shakespeare's plays, focusing on what a play does for an audience, as well as what its text says. By considering the entire theatrical experience and not only what happens on stage, Brown takes his readers back to the major texts with a fuller understanding of their language, and an enhanced view of a play's theatrical potential.
Chapters on theatre-going, playscripts, acting, parts to perform, interplay, stage space, off-stage space, and the use of time all bring recent developments in Theatre studies together with Shakespeare Studies. Every aspect of theatre-making comes into view as a dozen major plays are presented in the context for which they were written, making this an adventurous and eminently practical book for all students of Shakespeare.
Contents
Preface
Introduction: Theatrical Events
PART ONE: AUDIENCES
Playgoing and Participation
Functions
Responses
PART TWO: ACTORS
Texts and Techniques
Persons in a Play
Parts to Perform
Actions and Reactions
Visual Interplay
Improvisation
PART THREE: CONTEXTS
Stage Space
Off-Stage Space
Time
PART FOUR: PLAYS IN PRINT
Reading
Study and Criticism
Index.
