Shakespeare and Character

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Theory, History, Performance and Theatrical Persons, Palgrave Shakespeare Studies

ISBN: 0230572626
ISBN 13: 9780230572621
Herausgeber: P Yachnin/J Slights
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: xiii, 259 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 18.12.2008
Auflage: 1/2008
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: GEB

Includes contributions from leading scholars in the field, including Robert Weimann, Anthony Dawson and Michael Bristol Taps into current turn back to character-focused criticism as a timely reaction to the extreme arguments of some ideologically-driven critics Seeks to answer several questions, including the central premise of the volume ‚what is character?‘ Provides a new concept of character, from differing disciplinary points of view (literature/theatre history/performance/history scholars) Combines theoretical arguments with discussions of particular historical and theatrical examples of character in action

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Beschreibung

Shakespeare and Character brings together leading scholars in theory, literary criticism, and performance studies in order to redress a serious gap in Shakespeare studies and to put character back at the centre of our understanding of Shakespeare's achievement as an artist and thinker.

Autorenporträt

JAMES E. BERG is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Middlebury College in Vermont, USA ANDRÉ G. BOURASSA is Professor Emeritus at the École supérieure de théâtre at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM), Canada MICHAEL BRISTOL teaches in the Department of English at McGill University, Canada ANTHONY DAWSON is Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia, Canada WILLIAM DODD formerly taught English Literature at the Universities of Bologna and Siena, Italy ANDREW JAMES HARTLEY is the Distinguished Chair of Shakespeare Studies at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA LEANORE LIEBLEIN researches on the performing body at McGill University, Canada TREVOR PONECH is Associate Professor of English at McGill University, Canada CAMILLE WELLS SLIGHTS is Professor Emerita at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada MYRNA WYATT SELKIRK teaches on the Drama and Theatre Program in the English Department at McGill University, Canada ROBERT WEIMANN is Professor Emeritus of Drama at University of California, Irvine, USA SARAH WERNER is the director of the Folger-GW Undergraduate Research Seminar at the Folger Shakespeare Library, USA

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