1st Edition
The Elizabethan Player Contemporary Stage Representation
By David Albert Mann
Copyright 1991
290 Pages
by
Routledge
290 Pages
by
Routledge
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In this book, first published in 1991, David Mann argues for more attention to the performer in the study of Elizabethan plays and less concern for their supposed meanings and morals. He concentrates on a collection of extracts from plays which show the Elizabethan actor as a character onstage. He draws from the texts a range of issues concerning performance practice: the nature of iterance;... Read more
Preface; Acknowledgements; Notes on the Woodcuts; 1. Introduction: A Definition of the Context of Study 2. The Itinerant Player and Sir Thomas More 3. Evidence of Players in Hamlet 4. Kemp, Clowns, and Improvisation 5. Clown as Justice: The Mayor of Queenborough 6. Attacks on the Common Player 7. The Poetaster, the ‘War of the Theatres’, and the Children 8. University Drama and The Return from Parnassus 9. Histriomastix and the Inns of Court 10. Apprentice Drama and The Hog Hath Lost his Pearl 11. Heywood, Massinger, and the Defence of Playing 12. Ambiguities 13. Conclusion; Appendices
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David Albert Mann
