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Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. It argues that the ways in which today's popular and theatrical cultures judge how much is too much can distort our understanding of early modern drama and t...
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oapen-20.500.12657-257852022-12-02T02:13:29Z Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage Escolme, Bridget Literature Drama Theater Stage Acting Wiliam Shakespeare bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AN Theatre studies Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. It argues that the ways in which today's popular and theatrical cultures judge how much is too much can distort our understanding of early modern drama and theatre. It argues that permitting the excesses of the early modern drama onto the contemporary stage might free actors and audiences alike from assumptions that in order to engage with the drama of the past, its characters must be just like us. The book deals with characters in the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries who are sad for too long, or angry to the point of irrationality; people who laugh when they shouldn't or make their audiences do so; people whose selfhood has broken down into an excess of fragmentary extremes and who are labelled mad. 2019-03-08 23:55 2020-03-14 03:00:35 2020-04-01T10:49:22Z 2020-04-01T10:49:22Z 2013 book 1004304 OCN: 1100491125 9781408179666, 9781408179673 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25785 eng application/pdf application/epub+zip Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781408179680.pdf 9781408179697.epub Bloomsbury Academic 102542 066d8288-86e4-4745-ad2c-4fa54a6b9b7b b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781408179666, 9781408179673 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) London 102542 KU Select 2018: HSS Backlist Books Knowledge Unlatched open access |
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Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. It argues that the ways in which today's popular and theatrical cultures judge how much is too much can distort our understanding of early modern drama and theatre. It argues that permitting the excesses of the early modern drama onto the contemporary stage might free actors and audiences alike from assumptions that in order to engage with the drama of the past, its characters must be just like us.
The book deals with characters in the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries who are sad for too long, or angry to the point of irrationality; people who laugh when they shouldn't or make their audiences do so; people whose selfhood has broken down into an excess of fragmentary extremes and who are labelled mad. |
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