Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage
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 theatr...
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| author | Escolme, Bridget |
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| description | 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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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-383762025-07-31T16:20:41Z Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage Escolme, Bridget Literature Drama Theater Stage Acting Wiliam Shakespeare thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATD 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. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2019-03-08 23:55 2020-03-14 03:00:35 2020-04-01T10:49:22Z 2013 book 1004304 OCN: 1100491125 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25785 9781408179666, 9781408179673 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/38376 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25785/10/9781408179680.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25785/10/9781408179680.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25785/10/9781408179680.pdf Bloomsbury Academic f75587da-2374-4722-9d42-9fffa7fa3f92 Knowledge Unlatched b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781408179666, 9781408179673 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Select 2018: HSS Backlist Books London 102542 KU Select 2018: HSS Backlist Books open access |
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