Playhouse and Cosmos: Shakespearean Theater as MetaphorUniversity of Delaware Press, 1985 - 188 páginas Playhouse and Cosmos systematically and comprehensively describes the function of theater and role-playing as metaphors in Shakespearean drama. The author examines this metaphor's revelatory and liberating power and concludes by affirming, with Shakespeare, the creative power of theatricality in life and in art. |
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... presents as real ; and the particular setting within the play that the characters accept as real — Theseus ' Athens , Bolingbroke's court , the dukedom in Italy to which Prospero returns from the magic isle . A major objective of this ...
... presents as real ; and the particular setting within the play that the characters accept as real — Theseus ' Athens , Bolingbroke's court , the dukedom in Italy to which Prospero returns from the magic isle . A major objective of this ...
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... present progressively more complex and com- prehensive extensions of the theatrical occasion as a metaphor of reality . I have not attempted to compare Shakespeare's use of this metaphor with that of his contemporaries or to trace its ...
... present progressively more complex and com- prehensive extensions of the theatrical occasion as a metaphor of reality . I have not attempted to compare Shakespeare's use of this metaphor with that of his contemporaries or to trace its ...
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... presents holiday magic as imagination , games as expressive gestures . " Shakespearean drama translates " social into artistic form , " as Barber says , by revers- ing the original relation of part to whole : the play dramatizes social ...
... presents holiday magic as imagination , games as expressive gestures . " Shakespearean drama translates " social into artistic form , " as Barber says , by revers- ing the original relation of part to whole : the play dramatizes social ...
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Contenido
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Reality in Play Playhouse as Emblem Performance as Metaphor | 45 |
Reality and Play in Dramatic Fiction | 67 |
Theatrical Fiction and the Reality of Love in As You Like It | 86 |
Heroism History and the Theater in Henry V | 102 |
From Community to Society Cultural Transformation in Macbeth | 126 |
Conclusion | 148 |
Notes | 152 |
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185 | |
Términos y frases comunes
action actor actors and spectators affirms ambivalence Atlas audience auditorium Banquo Cambridge character Chicago Chorus Clarendon Press comedy cosmic emblem cosmos Critical defined dimensions disguise dramatic fiction dramatist Dream E. K. Chambers Edward Edward III Elizabethan drama embodies English Ernst Cassirer Essays experience fictive forest Ganymede Globe Gregory Smith Harry Berger Henry Henry's heroic heroism heterocosm human ideal imagination inner Kernan king London lovers Macbeth Macduff Malcolm Menaechmi metacritical metaphor Midsummer Night's Dream mimesis mimetic mind mode narrative nature normal world object objectifies opening scenes Orlando Oxford pattern of withdrawal play and reality play's players poetic poetry present Princeton projections relation relationship Renaissance response role role-playing Rosalind says setting Shake Shakespeare Shakespeare Quarterly Shakespearean drama Sidney stage Stephen Gosson structure subjective symbol Tamburlaine theater theatrical artifice theatrical event theatrical performance Theatrum thought tion Tragedies trans transform witches withdrawal and return Yale University York