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The Staging of Romance in Late Shakespeare. Text and Theatrical Technique.
Christopher J. Cobb
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Hardback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 167 x 20. Weight in Grams: 608.
This book examines Shakespeare's response in his late plays to the challenge of making romance stories believable through theatrical representation and the kind of experience the late plays in performance seek to create for their spectators. Taking The Winter's Tale as a case study, the book's central chapters demonstrate how Shakespeare tests and transforms the techniques to create the sweeping, restorative transformations of individuals and communities that are central to both earlier dramatic romances and Shakespeare's own romance experiments. The book's three other chapters address the methodologies for study of spectator's experience through a dramatic text, the history of dramatic ... Read more
This book examines Shakespeare's response in his late plays to the challenge of making romance stories believable through theatrical representation and the kind of experience the late plays in performance seek to create for their spectators. Taking The Winter's Tale as a case study, the book's central chapters demonstrate how Shakespeare tests and transforms the techniques to create the sweeping, restorative transformations of individuals and communities that are central to both earlier dramatic romances and Shakespeare's own romance experiments. The book's three other chapters address the methodologies for study of spectator's experience through a dramatic text, the history of dramatic ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Delaware, United States
ISBN
9781611493115
SKU
V9781611493115
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About Christopher J. Cobb
Christopher J. Cobb is assistant professor of English at Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana.
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