The players' advice to Hamlet : the rhetorical acting method from the Renaissance to the Enlightenme...
The players' advice to Hamlet : the rhetorical acting method from the Renaissance to the Enlightenme...
The players' advice to Hamlet : the rhetorical acting method from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment / David Wiles.
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
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G 2020/2962
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English
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Physical content
ix, 370 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Content type
text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Hamlet's advice to the players -- Rhetorical performance in antiquity -- Acting, preaching and oratory in the sixteenth century -- Baroque acting -- Actors and intellectuals in the Enlightenment era -- Emotion -- Declamation -- Gesture -- Training.
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Publisher
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2020.
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Summary
"Hamlet is a characteristic intellectual more inclined to lecture actors about their craft than listen to them, a precursor of Enlightenment figures like Diderot and Lessing. This book is a quest for the voice of early professional actors, drawing on English, French and other European sources to distinguish the methods of professionals from the the...
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The players' advice to Hamlet : the rhetorical acting method from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment / David Wiles.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2020/2962
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74VKaPGoOB0X
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaPGoOB0X
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ISBN
9781108498876 hardcover
1108498876 hardcover
9781108712811 paperback
1108712819 paperback
DDC
792.028
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991024313817702626
