Playhouse and Cosmos: Shakespearean Theater as MetaphorUniversity of Delaware Press, 1985 - Počet stran: 188 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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... means to truth . This book offers a comprehensive and systematic description of Shakespearean theater as metaphor by examining the social , intellec- tual , and architectural contexts within which Shakespeare's idea of the theater took ...
... means to truth . This book offers a comprehensive and systematic description of Shakespearean theater as metaphor by examining the social , intellec- tual , and architectural contexts within which Shakespeare's idea of the theater took ...
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... mean- ingful order out of hostile and intractable materials . " The assump- tion underlying this and most other metacritical efforts is stated by Howard Felperin when he calls for " a philosophical study of Renais- sance drama " based ...
... mean- ingful order out of hostile and intractable materials . " The assump- tion underlying this and most other metacritical efforts is stated by Howard Felperin when he calls for " a philosophical study of Renais- sance drama " based ...
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... means of affirming the independence of play ; by impersonating a character , the actor discards his own identity ; the audience , by accepting the imitation , can enter another world . " 1 Play , in turn , by its very auton- omy ...
... means of affirming the independence of play ; by impersonating a character , the actor discards his own identity ; the audience , by accepting the imitation , can enter another world . " 1 Play , in turn , by its very auton- omy ...
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... means of a coherent , preestablished design . To the contrary , I shall need to emphasize at a later stage of this argument that the playhouse was a discordant com- bination of two different structures , joined together for commercial ...
... means of a coherent , preestablished design . To the contrary , I shall need to emphasize at a later stage of this argument that the playhouse was a discordant com- bination of two different structures , joined together for commercial ...
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... means of , a new metaphoric mode of reference that establishes its two terms as equiva- lents and invites us to view each in terms of the other — God as poet , poet as God . All of this has a direct bearing on a familiar but little ...
... means of , a new metaphoric mode of reference that establishes its two terms as equiva- lents and invites us to view each in terms of the other — God as poet , poet as God . All of this has a direct bearing on a familiar but little ...
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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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